Developer posts and news about this game.
Every now and again I google myself, just to see what might come up; I happened to decide to do that yesterday, and found that someone at BuzzerBlog had written an article mentioning Word x Word just the day before! Bananas! Excited by this, I just had to put together a little up
To make sure Word x Word continues to run on modern hardware, I've upgraded underlying third-party libraries and runtimes to the latest versions (MonoGame 3.8.3 and .NET 9, if you're curious). "And as long as I'm doing this..." I thought, and then proceeded to come up with precis
There's about 20 new puzzles, plus some tweaks to existing puzzles. There's several new body parts to build your contestant with: a couple new bodies, some more eyes, and a new mouth. The game now detects the size of your display, and offers whatever window sizes it can that will
This random & unexpected update contains: A small handful of new puzzles. A few words added to a few existing puzzles. Updates to underlying packages and runtimes, which make vague promises of across-the-board performance and security improvements 🤷♀️ and ensure the continu
There was a rare case where a computer player would really want to spin for letters, even when there were no letters left for it to spin for, resulting in the AI eternally trying to hit its disabled "SPIN" button, locking the game until you just closed it! I had already attempted
There's now an Easy AI setting! Until you win at least one game, you can only play against Easy AI. After winning a game, you can choose your difficulty setting. (If you've won a game before this update, you'll be able to choose difficulty levels immediately.) Removed the CPU int
The AI had a couple obvious weaknesses in its gameplay, which this release fixes... along with a couple more minor things: AI will now consider its opponent's board, when attempting to solve the puzzle AI no longer gets stuck revealing letter tiles when it'd rather be doing somet