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WORD BLASTOFF: a physics word game for iOS

Published: 19 October 2014 Publication History

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Word Blastoff is a single-player word game app in which players are challenged to create 2 to 7 letter words from a pool of randomly-generated letters that enter the screen and gravitate towards a central black hole. With each letter that it zaps, the hole expands in size and ultimately explodes once it is too large for the screen, ending the game.

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"Spell Bound." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 28 June 2008. Web. 1 May 2014.
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Harquail, Nook. "An Annotated List of Word Lists." N.p. Web. 1 May 2014. http://digitalscholarship.herokuapp.com/.
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"MoMA Learning." MoMA. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 June 2014. http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/glossary. Figure 2: Statistics and Dictionary Views.

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    CHI PLAY '14: Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play
    October 2014
    492 pages
    ISBN:9781450330145
    DOI:10.1145/2658537
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    1. casual game design
    2. dynamic music
    3. interface design
    4. ios
    5. nonlinear gameplay
    6. physics-based game
    7. word game

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