First, it unveiled Windows Phone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In 2010, Microsoft set the stage for Cahill and Thornton and other aspiring developers at the company with two things. “However, Wordament is a lot better for you than potato chips.” When it comes to playing the game, “it is like putting a bowl of potato chips in front of a player it’s hard to resist having one, and once you’ve had one you can’t stop,” Howland said. The result of their hard work and persistence was a game that is “super fun to play if not downright addicting,” said Travis Howland, director of publishing for Microsoft Game Studios Mobile. “Then everything got bigger and bigger, and more and more it became something that we had to take seriously. “It did start off very much as two guys in a garage a couple of hours a week,” Thornton said. It’s all still rather mind-boggling to them. The resulting partnership may have started small, but it has yielded not only an uber-popular word game, but also a year of hard work and highlights for the pair, including downloads in the six figures, a player finding 125 words in 120 seconds (more than a word a second), another player using Wordament to propose to his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day, and having their game shown off by Microsoft senior executives several times at high-profile events and meetings. The Windows 8 version has all new features, including a minimized mode (pictured) that allows players to do more than one thing at once.
Wordament is now available as a free app for Windows 8 Consumer Preview. If Cahill and co-creator John Thornton could spell out the fortuitous moments and milestones of Wordament’s success one word at a time, the first would be rather unexpected: c-h-i-c-k-e-n-s. If you have the opportunity to be there with a free app on day one, you’d be crazy not to take that.” The Windows Store is going to be the biggest app store in the industry. “But this is a once-in-a-decade opportunity. “We have been working harder than I’ve ever worked,” said co-creator Jason Cahill. – Ma– Wordament, the hit Windows Phone game developed by two Microsoft employees, was launched this week on a second touchscreen platform-Windows 8.īeing selected as one of the first apps to launch as part of Windows 8 Consumer Preview is just the latest in a series of thrills for Wordament’s creators, who have been on a wild and wordy ride since they created the massively popular multiplayer, Boggle-esque game last year. *How two Microsoft employees built a hit game for Windows Phone, which launched as one of the first apps on Windows 8.*
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