Waggle Words Update Featured on the App Store – Games – What to Play This Week

by | Jun 23, 2020 | AR, News & Events, Waggle Words

We’re excited to announce that our new update for Waggle Words is currently featured on the iOS App Store:
Games – What to Play This Week!   

Our latest version of Waggle Words (1.3.3) now offers:
– 300+ unique built-in hive layouts (all with randomly generated letters)
– An expanded dictionary with over 172k words
– Battery saving optimizations
– Quicker loading time
– Minor bug fixes

We’ve also been working away on developing VR and wearable AR versions of Waggle Words. We’re close to announcing some of our future platforms soon!

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

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

by | Nov 23, 2019 | AR, ARKit, Games, iOS, Waggle Words

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!

Art Asset Creation and Implementation Tips for Max Performance on XR and Mobile – Unite Copenhagen

by | Nov 23, 2019 | 3D, AR, Art, Unite, Unity3D, VR

This fall, Vermont Digital Arts co-founder, Elliott Mitchell, traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark to attend and speak at Unity’s Unite conference. Much of the Unite conference focused around Unity’s new and upcoming features, but Elliott wanted to focus on basic art and Unity editor tips that may be useful to developers and artists today.  Please enjoy Elliott’s 25 minute presentation Art Asset Creation and Implementation Tips for Max Performance on XR and Mobile – Unite Copenhagen! 

What’s the Good Word – Waggle Words Featured on the App Store

by | Aug 10, 2018 | AR, New Features, Waggle Words

Waggle Words has been featured yet again on the App Store!
This time we’re heading the What’s the Good Word feature list!

Waggle Words Game

Waggle Words is a strategic word search game set inside a beehive. Flying letters, chains of words, and a swarming hive keep the energy high! Players seek and select words with the goal of clearing the board. Create chains of words to greatly multiply your points. Power-ups let you move and manipulate letters to build new words, create longer chains, and clear the board. With three different game types, plus an augmented reality mode for supported devices, game play is always new and exciting.

Waggle Words iOS Reviewed in the Backpacker Guide to Creativity in Vermont

by | Apr 20, 2018 | AR, iOS, Review, Vermont, Waggle Words

The Backpacker Guide to Creativity in Vermont is a hip new blog with the stated goal of being “dedicated to helping creatives discover and connect with one another and get to work in the Green Mountain state”. The Backpacker Guide is a resource rich with content for Creative Vermonters looking to connect, find like minded individuals, co-working spaces, cultural events and much more! Lars Hasselblad Torres, Founder of the Backpacker Guide, was kind enough to play Waggle Words iOS and write a thoughtful review for us!

Be sure to check out Lars’ review of Waggle Words and the other great content on the Backpacker Guide.

Waggle Words Featured on the App Store’s Daily List: Wonderful Word Games and Reaches Number 3 in Paid Word Games!

by | Apr 19, 2018 | AR, iOS, Waggle Words

We’re pleased to announce that Waggle Words, our strategic word search game on iOS, was featured this past Sunday on the App Store’s “Wonderful Word Games!” Daily List. We are certainly honored to have been included in the Wonderful Word Games feature. It seems like a lot of players were also excited to see Waggle Words in this select list of four featured word games with Waggle Words shooting up to Number 3 in the Paid Word Games rankings (our previous best ranking was number 6 when we launched).

If you love word games and have not had the chance to play Waggle Words yet, download it on the App Store and give it a shot!  We promise you will not be disappointed

Waggle Words VR at PAX East

by | Apr 19, 2018 | AR, Boston, VR, Waggle Words, Works In Progress

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.