Now Alec was risking it all on a flight crew that interfered with his word game.
Mr. Brichter's latest app is the word game Letterpress, released late last year through his company, Atebits LLC.
However, they felt that for their new word game, a literary take might make more sense and have a broader appeal.
Word game Quarrel finally reaches the Xbox console through the Xbox Live Arcade, some four years after the first spark of innovation that saw anagrams mixing with Risk, and two years after the code was completed.
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The Kolkata, India-based brothers first created a Web site for playing an online version of the word game Scrabble several years ago, "just for the love of the game, " says Jayant, 21, who also runs an offshore Web development firm with his brother.
For the official word on the game, the New Orleans Super Bowl Committee has its own Twitter account.
"Words With Friends" is a digital word-building game popular on several platforms.
Actual genes are buried in stretches of what appear to be gibberish DNA. Picking them out is a bit like finding the words in a word-search game.
Best to take nobody at their word in this elaborate game of shadow-boxing.
They make it clear in word and deed that a blame game will not be tolerated.
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No word on to what extent the game will change, or how much success it will find.
Cutting directly to the chase, recent economic data suggests that we may (the key word at this point in the game) be seeing a shift in the direction the winds are blowing.
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Instead of the usual rounds of talk shows and bookstore tours utilized by most publishers to promote a book, Jay-Z, Random House and ad agency Droga5 created a unique, innovative and interactive game to spread the word about this recent bestseller.
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When word got out that French mobile game development studio, Gameloft, was looking to open its second North American studio, the LED reached out to the company and added New Orleans to the list of American cities that were being considered.
The San Antonio Spurs were also staying overnight in Detroit after seeing their 11-game winning streak fall to the Pistons, awaiting word on when they might be able to fly to New York for their game Sunday night at Brooklyn.
Alabama coach Nick Saban also shied away from the D- word during a news conference after the game.
If they play this game and then break their word and head to the pros, it looks bad on the players.
Fernandez has proved as good as his word, averaging nearly 17 points per game for Real in the current Euroleague season and winning rave reviews for his performances.
The flashpoint brought an edge to the game and referee Craig Thomson had a word with several players in an attempt to calm proceedings.
Nostalgia is turning out to be a powerful business model on Kickstarter, although nostalgia might not be the right word for original IP built largely in a modern game development engine.
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Before that, Leo said he got to have one last word with the mother who had gone to every game, who had cooked meals for him and his teammates, who had recorded videos of him and made highlight reels and posted them on YouTube.
Next, he threw eight grammatical features, all related to word order, into the mix, and ran the game again.
For others, a game like Sissyfight, or a magazine like Word, might as well have come from ancient Greece.
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The word written on an index card (changes for each game).
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Just a word here and there from him during the week and the game can put players at ease, and that's where he'll be missed.
The word is still used in Canada and north Minnesota for an informal game of ice hockey played on a frozen pond.
Wilcox is said to have uttered an unspecified magic word while getting called for a technical foul in a Dec. 16 game.
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As a result, game-app makers, who used to rely mostly on word-of-mouth to move their products, have been forced to ratchet up the cost and fanfare of their marketing campaigns to rival those for lower-end videogames and books, even borrowing from Hollywood's playbook.
Word of mouth counts, especially when Joe Consumer notices an ad for a game online, sees a commercial on TV, and then hears a comment about the quality of that game from his friends.
The game was not a financial success but has won many fans since as word about its complexity and characters has spread.
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