Jane Austen: Social commentator. Popularizer of rom-coms. Word Fighter. That’s right: Ms. Austen will be a character in the upcoming iOS/Android game. As the developer said, “When it’s time to throw down, Jane is ready to destroy you.”
Originally coming up with the idea last year and intending it to be Street Fighter, but with words, the game reportedly now looks like a combination of Blogger, Words With Friends, Scrabble, and Super Puzzle Fighter. The game challenges how fast you can spell words when competing with other people, and while you play you get to be personified by famous authors.
Liam of Botchweed writes: You’ve probably never heard of Word Fighter, and that’s something we want to change. See, oddly named indie developer Feel Every Yummy have been taking their latest brainchild out to the public, and it’s been making quite the impression on both punters and press at shows like the recent Penny Arcade Expo, where it was featured as one of the ‘PAX 10′.
It's pretty clear that tablets can offer a unique gaming experience, but it looks like they may be able to revive elbow-to-elbow arcade-style gaming as well. Here is a look at Word Fighter just in time for its PAX 10 indie game reveal at Penny Arcade Expo 2011.
This was pretty early in development. I'm pretty sure the powers were just being experimented with at the time.
No, but they just announced a Brothers Grimm characters that play as one, Ice Climbers style.
I'm hoping for a game in which famous fictional detectives battle with logic.
I'm not trolling...THIS IS SOMETHING I WANT.
My girlfriend would love this game. She's crazy competitive with Words with Friends and Boggle and all that crap.
Feel Every Yummy has announced Homer as their newest character for their upcoming mobile game Word Fighter in an interview with CouchBound.
I would like to see Jane Austen vs. The Velociraptor.