LexiCube!
Beta Testers wanted
So, my son’s brother in law and I are working on a word game, which we are tentatively calling ‘LexiCube’ (the capital letters are my idea). And we are looking for Beta Testers… people to play the game after it has started working but before we have gotten all of the bugs ironed out. (Is that a mixed metaphor? Cause it sounds gross.)
We are looking for people to play the game, play with the rules, read the various descriptions and, above all… comment! Give us feedback on it!! Let us know what you like, what you hate, and why you’re never going to speak to us again!!
Description
LexiCube: Build words from adjacent letters, and watch your score go up while your pile of letters goes down!
Lexicube starts with a pile of letters six high, six wide… and six deep! Only the top letters are visible but, as you make words these letters go away and you get to see deeper and deeper into the pile. Your goal is to maximise your score, which will mean using your letters carefully and strategically.
Rules, rules, rules. We are still working on the rules, so we have a few exciting choices for you to make. Let me start with the recommended settings:
Rows, colums, layers… leave these at six.
Endless… good for practice, but its no game! Leave it off.
Adjacency… try it if you want, but I recommend you start with that off. Much more strategic.
Char: Proportional. Yeah, leave that on. Otherwise you get as many ‘X’ as you do ‘E’. Hey, if you want to beat yourself up, turn it off.
Minimum Length: Most games don’t do one and two letter words so leave this at three.
Length: Now this gets really interesting. How important do you want longer words to be? Do you want to sacrifice everything for one more letter? Anyway, I recommend you leave it at ‘exponential’ for now. That will allow you to compare scores with others.
Layer: Now HERE is a real choice. Leave it at ‘divide’ if you want to be super careful to always choose from the same layer. Change it to ‘multiply’ if you want to get some huge scores by choosing letters from as many different layers as possible. (That’s the way I love to play! Scores in the 1000’s and fun choices. But the other is fun too).
Strategy. Assuming you are using those settings then…
Work from the outside in. Stacks on the outside are much more likely to get isolated if you work a lot in the middle.
Work at getting rid of awkward combinations. Did the computer give you four ‘E’s somewhere? Well, then, find a word that uses a couple of them and get yourself a better combination.
Comments! Remember we are still working on the game. A comment from you at the right time can help us make it even better! Don’t like something, comment on it. It is in the development stage, so we might just say, “Yeah, working on that.” But, on the other hand, several comments have already been added to the game!
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Von