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I’m building a daily word puzzle game with a twist! In Tiled Words you rearrange tiles to solve clues and rebuild a broken crossword. You can play a demo at h

I’m building a daily word puzzle game with a twist! In Tiled Words you rearrange tiles to solve clues and rebuild a broken crossword. You can play a demo at https://tiledwords.com https://tiledwords.com - it’s free and web based so it works on whatever device you’ve got. I’ll be officially launching on October 19th at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. You can sign up to be notified on launch. Starting then there will be a new puzzle every day! So far I’ve gotten really positive feedback and have around 100 people signed up to get notified. It’s been a lot of fun to build!

craig227 1y ago
The UX is phenomenal. Easily in the top 1% of daily word puzzles. Love the concept, I'm sure it will do well at your launch!!
- paulhebert 1y ago
  That’s lovely to hear! Thank you!
- paulhebert 1y ago
  playlin.io is super cool! Nice job! I’ll submit my game there when it launches :)
  - craig227 1y ago
    Thank you! Happy to feature your game, I've played a _lot_ putting together Playlin so I have a pretty good sense of what's out there.
- shlomo_z 1y ago
  This is such a nice comment, and I only checked out the website because of your comment! I am glad I did. Indeed a spectacular puzzle.
CamperBob2 1y ago
Cool idea. One suggestion is to allow a selection box to be dragged around a block of letters. Once selected, all of the tiles in the area could be dragged at once. That would reduce the frustration of having to move a large chunk of words around piece by piece. It would be better than the existing affordance, which moves the whole grid.
- paulhebert 1y ago
  Thanks! I experimented with this but struggled making it feel natural on mobile. I ended up implementing an alternate solution that I’m hoping solves for the same paint point. My current dev build “merges” tiles when you connect them to complete a word. This allows you to move them as I’m going to release a demo with that feature soon. My core playtesters seem to like it but I want to get more feedback on it from a larger group!
  - vhantz 1y ago
    Merging is exactly what I expected when I put chunks together, with tap to separate them again.
anythingworks 1y ago
love the UI! one feedback I have is it would be nice to be able to use arrow keys on the desktop website to move the tiles
- paulhebert 1y ago
  Thanks! Keyboard support is on my road map
yakshaving_jgt 1y ago
I shared this with my colleagues at work. Got this feedback: > This is amazing. I could lose days to this.
- paulhebert 1y ago
  That’s lovely to hear? Thanks for sharing it!
robtaylor 1y ago
Love this - did you buy the name or was it free to reg? (nosey!)
- paulhebert 1y ago
  It was available to register at a normal rate!
hacb 1y ago
Really cool, congrats! The UI is clean, everything is smooth, I like it :) Can't wait for the release
- paulhebert 1y ago
  Thank you!

craig227 1y ago

The UX is phenomenal. Easily in the top 1% of daily word puzzles. Love the concept, I'm sure it will do well at your launch!!

paulhebert 1y ago
That’s lovely to hear! Thank you!
paulhebert 1y ago
playlin.io is super cool! Nice job! I’ll submit my game there when it launches :)
- craig227 1y ago
  Thank you! Happy to feature your game, I've played a _lot_ putting together Playlin so I have a pretty good sense of what's out there.
shlomo_z 1y ago
This is such a nice comment, and I only checked out the website because of your comment! I am glad I did. Indeed a spectacular puzzle.

CamperBob2 1y ago

Cool idea. One suggestion is to allow a selection box to be dragged around a block of letters. Once selected, all of the tiles in the area could be dragged at once. That would reduce the frustration of having to move a large chunk of words around piece by piece. It would be better than the existing affordance, which moves the whole grid.

paulhebert 1y ago
Thanks! I experimented with this but struggled making it feel natural on mobile. I ended up implementing an alternate solution that I’m hoping solves for the same paint point. My current dev build “merges” tiles when you connect them to complete a word. This allows you to move them as I’m going to release a demo with that feature soon. My core playtesters seem to like it but I want to get more feedback on it from a larger group!
- vhantz 1y ago
  Merging is exactly what I expected when I put chunks together, with tap to separate them again.

anythingworks 1y ago

love the UI! one feedback I have is it would be nice to be able to use arrow keys on the desktop website to move the tiles

paulhebert 1y ago
Thanks! Keyboard support is on my road map

yakshaving_jgt 1y ago

I shared this with my colleagues at work. Got this feedback: > This is amazing. I could lose days to this.

paulhebert 1y ago
That’s lovely to hear? Thanks for sharing it!

robtaylor 1y ago

Love this - did you buy the name or was it free to reg? (nosey!)

paulhebert 1y ago
It was available to register at a normal rate!

hacb 1y ago

Really cool, congrats! The UI is clean, everything is smooth, I like it :) Can't wait for the release

paulhebert 1y ago
Thank you!