So I typed the name into Steam to get to its store page, and. It'd be a nostalgic, smile-inducing article about something good and pure. I could replay a well-loved game, and bring up the old RPS rivalry between it and Peggle, and celebrate how funny it was, and how brilliantly it noticed thematic words. And yes, if this is sounding incredibly familiar despite never having played BWA back in 2007, it is also the exact same setup as 2014's Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey.Īs it happens, it was playing Letter Quest on my Switch with the boy that reminded me how fun it might be to dig out Bookworm Adventures for this column. To do this, you must of course spell out the longest words you can from a 4x4 grid of lettered tiles, the formed words used as a weapon against the story-themed enemies, beating the crap out of them.Īs you progress, the tiles become cracked, poisoned, concrete, etc, and different letters are worth more when used in words.
You play as Lex, a sesquipedalian worm, who is sent inside a library book to attempt to rescue Greek mythological heroine Cassandra. But Bookworm Adventures transformed it into something so damned weird that it could only be magic. There was a game before it, Bookworm, a more traditional puzzler, that honestly isn't very good. Yeah, bet you forgot that one! And while perhaps their peak crossover moment came with Plants Vs Zombies, moments before they were bought by EA, for me my favourite will always be that wormy word game. So much so that there was even a crossover special edition of Peggle in Valve's Orange Box. Probably most broadly famous for Bejeweled, they were putting out a mix of so many game types, from hidden object to arcade to pachinko, managing to blur the fiercely guarded line between "casual" and "hardcore". Even more so the breadth of their appeal, somehow ingeniously presenting themselves as both a "casual games" outlet releasing across all those super-mainstream sites like Big Fish, and a specialist company who were incredibly early to get their games onto Steam. It's hard to believe just what an extraordinary hit factory PopCap was back in 2007. If I had to keep one, I'd have trodden on Peggle to save my Bookworm Adventures. But there was one of us that preferred another PopCap game at the time, and that handsome chap was me. We all loved Peggle, because we weren't mad. A file size that became peculiarly important to the site for a number of years - for reasons implausible to explain it became the international unit for measuring demo sizes. By creating longer words with fewer strokes, children will develop a sense of what a sentence looks like and be better prepared to write actual sentences in the future.Back in the very early days of RPS, a little game called Peggle was released. Bookworm can also be used as a teaching tool by placing the game on a chalkboard and drawing words and pictures that relate to the subject being taught. When words have been created, it's time to try and figure out what the words mean. Tiles must be selected correctly to create words in a game that will make people sit up and take notice. These two shapes can overlap each other to form worm trails and caterpillars can fall through holes into butterfly shapes.īookworm can be fun and challenging for both children and adults. In addition to the standard book shape, popcap games feature worm and butterfly shapes.
Placing one's mouse over a hole on a file will cause it to expand, causing the adjacent tiles to collapse. Tiles resemble real leaves in the garden but in the case of bookworm tiles, these flowers are shaped like worms (arrows) and filled with holes (cubes). The game ends when a player runs out of words.Īs with other popcap games, bookworm adventures requires that tiles be selected using the mouse or keyboard. A player's goal is to find all words that are formed using the available spaces by finding the correct sequence of letters. The word that's finally drawn is the word that began with the letter in the upper left corner. As words are formed, their positions are revealed and empty spaces collapse to fill up the available space. In a grid of open letters, players click letters to form words by matching the right position of the square with a colored dot. Bookworm is a puzzling word-form puzzle game from PopCap Games.
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