{"id":184,"date":"2010-04-15T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2015-05-18T08:40:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T15:40:47","slug":"vocabulary-mosaic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary Mosaic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">EDIT: 2015-05-18<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I made a new version of <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Vocabulary Mosaic<\/span><\/strong>. This version has larger tiles, some visual improvements, control improvements, and perhaps most importantly, it can save your progress automatically so long games do not have to be played in a single sitting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vocabmosaic-gameplay-01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-238\" src=\"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vocabmosaic-gameplay-01-300x169.png\" alt=\"vocabmosaic-gameplay-01\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vocabmosaic-gameplay-01-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vocabmosaic-gameplay-01.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vocabmosaic-gameplay-03.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-239\" src=\"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vocabmosaic-gameplay-03-300x169.png\" alt=\"vocabmosaic-gameplay-03\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vocabmosaic-gameplay-03-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vocabmosaic-gameplay-03.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Download Links:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/HamsterRepublic.com\/dl\/setup-vocabmosaic.exe\">Windows Installer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/HamsterRepublic.com\/dl\/vocabmosaic-mac.tar.gz\">Mac OS X Application<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/HamsterRepublic.com\/dl\/vocabmosaic_i386.deb\">Debian Linux .deb package (also for Ubuntu)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/HamsterRepublic.com\/dl\/vocabmosaic-release-signed.apk\">Android Phones and Tablets (also in the google app store)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/HamsterRepublic.com\/dl\/vocabmosaic.zip\">Plain zip file (Windows or other Linuxes)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Info and screenshots below are about the old version from 2010:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I was asked to write <a href=\"http:\/\/superwalrusland.com\/ohr\/issue36\/design\/design.html\">a game design article<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/superwalrusland.com\/ohr\/issue36\/cover.html\">Hamsterspeak Issue #36<\/a>. Instead of just writing an article, I wrote a game.<\/p>\n<p>I had recently been playing a lot of Words-With-Friends with my Sister and my Brother-in-Law, and that had me thinking about word-tile games.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I don&#8217;t like about word tile games is the limited size of the board quickly cramps the word space, and the double and triple score boxes force any winning strategy to emphasize small words on score boxes in favor of long words.<\/p>\n<p>So I set out to make a word tile game that rewards long words most of all. The result was Vocabulary Mosaic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vocabmosaic0000.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vocabmosaic0001.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is more information about the making of the game in <a href=\"http:\/\/superwalrusland.com\/ohr\/issue36\/design\/design.html\">the hamsterspeak article<\/a>. (old version)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDIT: 2015-05-18 I made a new version of Vocabulary Mosaic. This version has larger tiles, some visual improvements, control improvements, and perhaps most importantly, it can save your progress automatically so long games do not have to be played in a single sitting. \u00a0 Download Links: Windows Installer Mac OS X Application Debian Linux .deb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-ohrrpgce","category-programming","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}