Strategic Word Search Game, Waggle Words, Updated on the App Store!

We’re proud to announce Waggle Words, our strategic word search game on iOS, has just been updated to version 1.3.2, and our players will be pleased!

Waggle Words now boasts:
– Now over 300 unique built-in hive layouts (all with randomly generated letters)
– An expanded dictionary with over 172k words
– ARKit 2 with better tracking
– Battery saving optimizations

Download the latest version of Waggle Words -> TODAY  <- on the App Store!

Waggle Words VR at PAX East

PAX East is a gigantic consumer facing video game conference that descends on Boston, MA each spring.  Pax East attendance is estimated to be greater than 100k over the traditionally 3 day event; this year Pax East organizers threw in a 4th day to expand their offerings to the exuberant gaming communities. Vermont Digital Arts wasn’t going to pass up on the opportunity to attend such a monumental gaming event, yet we opted out of demoing Waggle Words in a traditional expo booth for four days (right after spending a week at GDC). We accessed a great alternative for demoing at the conference: MassDiGI’s Made In MA at PAX East 2018 Party!

Elliott Mitchell (Co-Founder of Vermont Digital Arts) traveled to Boston’s District Hall for the Made In MA Party to demo Waggle Words on iOS and to demo an alpha build of Waggle Words VR in development for Valve’s Steam PC platform. Waggle Words VR leverages the HTC Vive Virtual Reality system (HMD, controllers and lighthouses) to deliver an immersive and extremely comfortable VR experience. Waggle Words VR also currently supports the Oculus HMD and Touch controllers in Steam as well.

Elliott Mitchell [Co-Founder, Vermont Digital Arts] demoing Waggle Words, – Photo courtesy of Luke Hollis

Elliott Mitchell [Co-Founder, Vermont Digital Arts] demoing Waggle Words, – Photo courtesy of Luke Hollis

After a great night at the Made in MA Party, Elliott put on his Boston Unity Group (BUG) organizer hat and spoke with other Boston game dev community leaders on a panel entitled, “We Created Game Dev Communities – And You Can Too!” The panel discussed the different focuses that game dev events can have, how to find external support, the ins-and-outs of creating a welcoming environment, and much more.

Adri Mills [Organizer, WIG Boston],Craig Herndon [CEO, BostonVR],Oleg Brodskiy [COO, BostonFIG], Caroline Murphy [CEO/Founder, BostonFIG], Seth Alter [Organizer, Boston Indies] & Elliott Mitchell [Co-Founder, Boston Unity Group], – Photo courtesy of Rydia Vielehr.

If you are looking for smaller events within the 100k people of PAX East, attending talks and finding concurrent events like the Made in Ma Party are great ways to connect and network with your community.

Waggle Words, The Augmented Reality Strategic Word Game, Lands on the Apple App Store Thursday, September 28, 2017!

Waggle Words

A Strategic Word Game

Vermont Digital Arts is excited to announce that our Augmented Reality enhanced strategic Word Game, Waggle Words, is landing on the Apple App Store this Thursday, September 28, 2017!

We’ve launched a new landing webpage dedicated to Waggle Words for iOS!

Waggle Words is loaded with fun and useful features!

Are you unsure about AR or don’t have a device that supports AR?

Waggle Words is just as fun to play in Standard Mode (meaning not in AR)!

Standard Mode is supported on all devices running iOS 11; AR mode is only supported on devices with an A9 chip or higher.

We’ll be adding an additional webpage for Waggle Words game rules and tips! Check back soon!

Waggle Words iOS with ARKit Enhanced AR Mode – iPhone Teaser Trailer

With all the excitement around Apple’s much anticipated announcements today, we thought it’s a perfect time to unveil Vermont Digital Art’s Waggle Words iPhone teaser trailer (featuring ARKit enhancements for iOS 11).

Besides conveying Waggle Words being a lively game with lot’s of character, We want to communicate that Waggle Words for iOS will run on devices that support AR, as well as devices that don’t support AR. Players may choose to play in whatever mode suits their fancy (and hardware)!

Subscribe to our Vermont Digital Arts YouTube Channel for more Waggle Words trailers, tutorials, game play and platform announcements!

More exciting Waggle Words announcements to come later this week!

Waggle Words with AR Mode for iOS 11 Development Update

Waggle Words continues with a few more updates as we get ready to launch! Thank you all for your overwhelmingly positive feedback on our last post. Your positivity has given us that extra momentum to work on suggestions from designer, developers and play testers to make our UI even more slick and intuitive. We’re honing our tutorial to make it playable as well as instructable. We are definitely feeling the 90-90 rule.

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
— Tom Cargill, Bell Labs

We are hope all of you are as excited for the release of iOS11 and ARKit as we are. Waggle Words AR is pretty cool as we play it with the Vermont fauna and flora in the background and we think it will be fun you city slickers too.

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