WordBed

WordBed is a simply made 2D word search game. Click on letters on the grid to make words, double click them, then "eliminate" them to make the remaining letters fall down so you can try make some words out of the rest. Once you're done, the AI will count the rest of the words and score you. That's all there is to it. I don't think this is any kind of malicious asset flip or scam, it's just a badly made, barely-a-game thing that's been dumped on Steam. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The implementation here is of such poor quality, the developer couldn't work out how to make the game display in fullscreen, it only runs in a window. Problematically, the user interface for this game is just a 2D text heavy panel, no graphics to speak of. It might as well be a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browser, it's just not rich or compelling enough to appeal to serious gamers. Comically, the game was written in Python (I'm not making this up). Talk about not using the right tools for the job. Might as well try to bake a cake with a screwdriver. The extremely poor choice of game engine here is a major contributing factor to the defects with the game. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. WordBed is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering you can play this kind of game free in a browser or on mobile, so why would anyone pay for this deficient attempt?

WordBed is a good material for learning 3-5 letter English words. It looks like free software from the windows 95 era, but the database of 200,000 words is not a joke. Every time you play the game, you will discover new words. Well worth the $1 if your native language is not English. [h2]WordBed vs 人間、勝つのはどっちだ!?[/h2] コンピューターと単語消しバトルをして、最終的にWordBedのスコアの何%までせまれるかを競うゲーム。相手は20万単語のデータベースを持つ化け物なので、人間側が100%スコアを叩き出すのは相当厳しい。しかし救済処置として人間側はスコアを消費することで、好きな場所の文字を書き換えることができる。多くの文字を消せるように先を見据えて戦略的に消していく必要があるため、頭を悩ませることになる ボードサイズが10x10なので、3〜5文字の単語出現率が多くなるが、それでも毎回答え合わせで「こんな単語があったんだ〜」と思わせられる。ゲームをやっているうちに、単語の意味はわからないけど、どんどん単語を覚えていける。気が向いたら辞書をひいて「ほぇ〜 こういう意味なんだ」と新たな発見がある。また、ひとつの単語から複数の単語を紐付けて覚えることができる。例えば「PARTITION」からは「PART, ART, ARTI, PARTI, TIT, TITI, ION」といった具合だ。これはスペリングを覚える際にも役に立つ ゲームの画面サイズは620x620ほどで場所を取らないので、なにかの作業中にポチポチやるのにも良い。見た目がしょぼすぎるのと、プレイ方法の説明が簡素なので最初はどうやってプレイするのかさっぱりわからないと思うが、100円という値段なのですべてを許さざるをえない まとめると ・100円で3〜5文字の単語を覚えまくれる (意味がわかるかは別として) ・文字の書き換えを駆使して如何に高得点をとるかというパズル的楽しみ ・書き換え時に自身のスペリング能力のチェックと更新ができる ・コンピューターの答え合わせを見る楽しみ ・1プレイ数分の手軽さと、ゲーム画面が場所をとらず何かをしながらできる 以上、ゲーマーには微妙かもしれませんが、英語学習者には教材としておすすめできます

This only recognizes words going left-to-right and top-to-bottom, even when they are diagonally placed. The letter algorithm has been poorly set-up. You have very few words at all, most of which are only 3/4-letter words. You cannot enter the word in using the keyboard. You have to mark each letter with your mouse (this didn't work for me the first time I tried the game), then press enter to enter the word, or presumably click again on the last letter. There was an old game called Word Twist, which I still have on my external drive. I'm going back to that. The devs need to go back to the drawing board on this one.

Since english is not my first language, a lot of words the game finds doesn't make sense to me, but hey, at least I'm learning something new. The sound for the clicking and the blocks moving can get annoying after a while, also the game doesn't allow "backwards" words, which is probably really hard to program, so it's okay. If you want to just pass time with something, you don't want to think too much, this game can be for you. I'll probably play with it when I am bored and don't know what else to do with myself.