Letterpress (video game)

Letterpress is a 2012 word game developed by American studio atebits and released on October 24, 2012, on iOS. It was later released under a new company, Solebon LLC, on July 20, 2016, for the Mac App Store.[1]

Letterpress
A screenshot of the game with a five by five grid containing red and blue squares.
Developer(s)atebits
Programmer(s)Loren Brichter
Platform(s)iOS, macOS, Android
ReleaseiOS: October 24, 2012
Mac: July 20, 2016
Genre(s)Word game
Mode(s)Singleplayer

Gameplay

Two players compete to take over the most territory on a grid with 25 letters. Each player takes a turn assembling words from the letters found on the grid. When players finish making a word, the selected letters turn into that player's color (either red or blue).[2] If a player's tiles surround a letter, the other player cannot claim it. Players may choose to pass a turn. Once every square is occupied or if both players decide to pass their turns in the same round, the player with the greatest amount of squares taken wins.[3]

Development

After leaving Twitter in November 2011, developer and founder of Atebits Loren Brichter started creating Letterpress.[4] He was inspired by another word game, SpellTower, during a dinner with his wife, and Brichter wanted to make a multiplayer version of that game.[5]

Release

Letterpress was first released on iOS on October 24, 2012. After the game was bought by a new company, Solebon LLC, Letterpress was released to the Mac App Store on July 20, 2016.[1]

Reception

Letterpress has a Metacritic rating of 89 based on eight critics.[6]

Accolades

Letterpress has been featured in the App Store's Best of 2012 list, which ranks the highest selling games of that year.[7] In 2013, the game was nominated at the Worldwide Developers Conference and won the Apple Design Awards.[8][9]

References
  1. Hall, Zac (July 20, 2016). "Letterpress word game lands on the Mac as Skype drops support for older OS X versions". 9to5Mac. Retrieved August 12, 2023.
  2. Cole, Joshua (January 5, 2022). "Games Like Wordle For Android". Screen Rant. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
  3. Viticci, Federico (October 24, 2012). "Loren Brichter's Comeback: Letterpress". MacStories. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
  4. Etherington, Darrell (October 24, 2012). "Letterpress: The First New Product From Tweetie's Loren Brichter Since Departing Twitter". TechCrunch. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
  5. Brichter, Loren (October 24, 2012). "A Conversation With Loren Brichter" (Interview). Interviewed by Federico Viticci.
  6. "Letterpress - Word Game". Metacritic.
  7. McWhertor, Michael (December 13, 2012). "App Store names its 'Best of 2012' games for iPhone and iPad". Polygon. Retrieved October 8, 2023.
  8. McElroy, Griffin (June 12, 2013). "Ridiculous Fishing, Letterpress and more take home Apple Design Awards". Polygon. Retrieved October 8, 2023.
  9. "This year's winners". Apple. Archived from the original on June 12, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2023.
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