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盘点Facebook平台的7款经典文字游戏

发布时间:2011-10-12 16:04:46 Tags:,,,

作者:Emma Boyes

文字游戏和Facebook堪称完美搭档——这类游戏颇具趣味,玩家可以利用零碎的5、10分钟进行体验,而期望当众证明自己比其他好友更聪明的心理则让游戏变得更加有趣。这类游戏具有众多选择,包括众多版本的字谜游戏和拼字游戏,下面是这类游戏的经典代表。

1. 《Words With Friends》

Words With Friends from gamepro.com

Words With Friends from gamepro.com

这是Facebook巨头Zynga先前的作品,是款非Scrabble商标的拼字游戏。虽然游戏只涉及两位玩家,但玩家依然能够看到熟悉的版面和7个随机字母。玩家需要根据这些字母拼出单词,若你够聪明,必能将字母放置于网格中巧妙设计的奖励方格(游戏邦注:例如,DW意味着你将获得双倍文字积分,TL代表3倍文字积分)。玩家放置好字母后,就轮到对手,他们会即时添加自己的字母,将你的字母送回去。

这是款倍受欢迎的作品,有1200万用户,因此玩家能够很快从中找到正在体验的好友。若你未能从中找到好友,也不要放弃——若你愿意,你可以选择同随机Facebook玩家共同体验。

2. 《Typing Maniac》

Typing Maniac from gamepro.com

Typing Maniac from gamepro.com

这款打字游戏属于电子游戏中较少见的类型,起初出现于日本,游戏拥有大批忠实粉丝。《致命一击》也属于这类游戏,是《死亡之屋》的另一版本,在这款游戏中玩家杀死僵尸的武器不是子弹,而是其触屏打字技能,后来还出现《致命一击 2》和《Typing of the Date》。如今Metro Games推出的《Typing Maniac》将打字的乐趣带到了Facebook平台。

玩家扮演的是看起来劳累过度的图书管理员,他拼命赶在大堆书面资料淹没前将其输入电脑。文字由屏幕顶部坠落下来,玩家需在其触到底部前将它们打出来。有些文字包含升级元素,如火和冰(游戏邦注:前者会破坏屏幕上的所有文字,后者会冻结文字,让玩家有时间追上进度)。

这款游戏颇具沉浸性,其受欢迎程度非常惊人。

3. 《Pathwords》

Pathwords from gamepro.com

Pathwords from gamepro.com

这是Zynga的另一作品。《Pathwords》玩家面对的是一大方格的字母,玩家通过3个(或以上)字母组建单词,将单词串联起来。组成的单词链越长,玩家所获得的积分就越多。游戏在限定单词类型方面相当宽松,这影响不大,因为随着大量元音字母涌现在方框中,玩家要继续游戏就变得越发困难。

玩家刚开始体验时,游戏会显示其Facebook好友中的高分玩家,游戏的主要乐趣在于玩家争相在游戏中表现突出,超越好友,取得第一名的位置。玩家也可以直接瞄准某好友,向他们发出挑战。

4. 《Word Challenge》

Word Challenge from gamepro.com

Word Challenge from gamepro.com

Playfish《Word Challenge》给玩家提供6个字母,玩家的任务是在有限时间内基于其中3个字母(或以上)组成尽可能多的单词。每组成一个正确单词,玩家的积分就会增加,若玩家组出较长单词,则能够获得少量额外时间。玩家可以随意挑选4万组字母,自己体验,挑战自己的高分成绩,或挑战好友,选择同组字母进行体验,看谁最终胜出。

若玩家愿意掏钱购买付费内容,游戏还设有3个未解锁的模式:practice、turbo和word grid。Practice给予玩家充足游戏时间,word grid模式同《Pathwords》相似,而turbo属于比较困难的版本,玩家享有较少时间。

5. 《Word Buster》

Word Buster from gamepro.com

Word Buster from gamepro.com

《Word Buster》在文字游戏中属于颇有趣味的游戏内容(游戏邦注:游戏出自Games Loop之手)。游戏向玩家提供3个初始字母,例如“nom”,玩家要以这3个字母开组出可能多的单词,“nominal”、“nominee”和“nomad”都符合要求,而“nomnomnom”显然算不上一个单词。

游戏多人选择并不完善——例如,玩家可以体验锦标赛,但需购买资格。这是款非常适合5分钟体验的游戏,但整个过程趣味横生,玩家能够充分考验自己的大脑。

6. 《Hangman》

Hangman from gamepro.com

Hangman from gamepro.com

Facebook平台有许多类似《Hangman》的游戏,但这款游戏别具创意——玩家需要猜测的词语是Facebook好友的名字。游戏一开始,玩家得搏一搏自己的运气,选择要体验的回合(游戏邦注:在10到50之间)。然后就会看到空白空格,玩家需要依次猜出名字中的字母。若玩家猜错太多字母,很不幸,好友就会丧命。

显然若玩家有许多Facebook好友,游戏会更有趣——也许玩家数量得达到200位以上,游戏才富有挑战性。

7. 《经典文字游戏》

Classic Word Games from gamepro.com

Classic Word Games from gamepro.com

育碧的《经典文字游戏》包含4个迷你游戏,据说第5个迷你游戏“Wordfall”即将问世。“Hangman”是个标准的猜字游戏,“ABC Magnets”和“Pull-Pull”则是类似《Word Challenge》的拼字游戏(“ABC Magnets”包含标准的6个字母,而“Pull-Pull”则更具挑战性,包含16个字母)。 第4个游戏“Mumble”包含4个字母,要求玩家组出包含这4个字母的单词,例如,若玩家手头的字母是A、N、S和D,那么就可以是“sand”,或是更长的“sandcastles”。这略显幼稚,显然主要瞄准儿童群体,但若玩家能够完成体验,这些迷你游戏其实相当精致,颇具趣味。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,如需转载请联系:游戏邦

Top 7 Facebook Word Games

by Emma Boyes

Word games and Facebook go well together — they’re an interesting diversion that you can play in a spare five or ten minutes and the desire to publicly prove you’re cleverer than the rest of your friends makes them even more fun. There are plenty to choose from, including what seems like several hundred different versions of anagram finder games and Scrabble — but here is a selection of some of the best.

1. Words With Friends

This is the latest title from Facebook giants Zynga and is basically Scrabble without the brand name. While only two players, you’re still presented with a familiar board and seven random letters. You’ll need to make a word out of those letters, and if you’re sly you’ll also be sure to place it on one of the bonus squares strategically placed throughout the grid. DW means you’ll get a double word score and TL means triple letter score on that square, for example. Once you’ve placed your word, it’s over to your opponent, who will add theirs in real time and send the ball back to you.

As it’s an incredibly popular game with 12 million users, you’ll probably have no problems finding a friend who’s already playing. But don’t be put off if you don’t actually have any friends (or at least, ones on Facebook that you can rope into playing with you) — ignore the ‘with friends’ part, you can also play against a random opponent if you so wish.

2. Typing Maniac

The typing game is one of those strange genres of video games that originated in Japan and has accrued something of a cult following. There’s the Typing of the Dead, a version of the House of the Dead where instead of bullets you kill zombies with your spectacular touch typing skills, and later The Typing of the Dead II  and Typing of the Date (a date sim), to name but a few. And now Typing Maniac by Metro Games brings the joy of typing to your Facebook account.

You play as what looks like a rather overworked librarian, desperately trying to clear a stack of paperwork before they are literally buried underneath it. Words drop from the top of the screen and you need to type them out correctly before they hit the bottom. Some words contain power-ups like fire, which destroys all the words on the screen and ice, which freezes everything and gives you some time to play catch-up.

It’s strangely addictive and you might be surprised at how many of your friends are already playing.

3. Pathwords

Another entry from Zynga, in Pathwords you’re given a grid of letters and have to make words of three letters or more by making a chain through them. Longer words get you a higher score. The game seems to be fairly forgiving about the kind of words it allows, which is just as well since it becomes increasingly difficult to continue through the game as a disproportionate amount of vowels seem to drop into the grid.

When you start playing, you’re shown the high scores for all your Facebook friends who have already played and a big part of the fun is getting good enough at the game to displace them all and claw your way to the number one spot. You can also pick a friend and challenge them directly.

4. Word Challenge

In Playfish’s Word Challenge, you’re given six letters and your task is to make as many words of three letters or more from these six letters as you can muster in a certain amount of time. Each word you correctly find nets you points and if you manage to find a long word, you also earn a bit of extra time. You can play one of the 40,000 sets of letters against yourself to beat your high-score or you can challenge your friends to both play through the same letter set and see who wins.

There are also three unlockable modes if you’re willing to throw down some cash for the premium content: practice, turbo and word grid. Practice mode gives you all the time in the world, word grid is a mode like Pathwords and turbo is a harder version of the game with less time on the clock.

5. Word Buster

Word Buster is an interesting take on the word game genre. Developed by Games Loop, the game gives you three starting letters, for example ‘nom’ and you need to make as many words that start with those three letters as you can. So, you could have words like ‘nominal’, ‘nominee’ or ‘nomad’ although I was surprised to find out that ‘nomnomnom’ apparently does not count as a proper word.

As far as multiplayer options go, it’s a little underdeveloped — you can, for example, play tournaments, but to do this you need to buy your way in. It’s very much a game that you play for five minutes every so often, but it’s a fun five minutes that gives your brain cells a workout.

6. Hangman

There are several Hangman variations available to play on Facebook, but this one gives the game a unique twist — the words you have to guess are the names of your Facebook friends. To start the game you must decide how lucky you’re feeling and choose the number of rounds you want to play (between 10 and 50). You’re then presented with blank spaces and must guess their name letter by letter. If you make too many wrong letter guesses, tough luck, you just killed your friend.

Obviously this game works better if you have a fair amount of Facebook friends– probably you’d need at least 200 to make it enough of a challenge.

7. Classic Word Games

Ubisoft’s Classic Word Games currently features four different mini-games to play with a fifth called Wordfall allegedly coming soon. Hangman is, as you’ve probably guessed, a standard Hangman game, ABC Magnets and Pull-Pull are anagram games like Word Challenge (ABC magnets has the standard six letters whereas Pull-Pull is more of a challenge with 16). The fourth game, Mumble, gives you four letters and challenges you to make words that contain all those letters, so for example if you had A, N, S and D you could make ‘sand’, or for more points ‘sandcastles’. It’s a little bit childish and obviously aimed at young children, but if you can get past that the mini-games are well-done and fun.(Source:gamepro


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