Video game publisher Alten8 has announced that they are releasing Wordsnake for the Nintendo DS. They are also planning to bring the game on the PC and the Nintendo Wii.
About Wordsnake:
- In Wordsnake, the aim of the game is to build words of 3-8 letters from the random selection on the tile rack, and reach a target score before the time runs out. Each new word is placed on the board from an existing letter tile, forming snake like structures, which means the words must begin or end with the existing letter. Consequent tiles will disappear after a set time, which means the gamer must form new words to keep the snake alive and invalid words will reduce the players score.
- New features include the ability to randomly shuffle letters and move letters to a second tile rack to help with word construction. Special tiles let the player gain extra lives, decrease/increase remaining level time. As the player progresses to each new level, they will have less time to complete the level, the target score will increase, and extra walls will appear that curb the playable area.
Paul Andrews, CEO, Alten8 says, “This is yet another great example of not only the growing portfolio of Alten8 titles coming to console , but also how smaller companies can work in co-operation to create a wide variety of addictive quality games to a world market.”
David Greenberg, from Pixel Magick quoted, “We are very please that Alten8 will be bringing this game to a larger audience and the DS version, with its use of the two displays and touch screen, makes good use of the hardware and is looking especially promising.”
Wordsnake for Nintendo DS has been developed by Pixel Magick and is expected to release soon.