Wordability
Thursday, 4th October 2018 ◆ Comments (1)Wordability was a scrabble-esque boardgame made by three brothers. Its gimmick was that words could be placed in any direction – forwards, backwards, diagonally, anything goes! Unfortunately, the game didn't take off, but it was an interesting concept.
![Physical Wordability Physical Wordability](/img/portfolio/wordability_board.png)
In 2009, I was contracted to make the backend server for a multiplayer version of the game. I used PHP, which was the language I was most familiar with at the time. All actions were verified by the server, so players couldn't cheat. The frontend was written with Actionscript, and I wrote the client-side code which interacted with the server. Another freelancer wrote and designed the UI and the single-player variant. Messages were encoded with XML and used AS3's XMLSocket interface.
It was the first large freelance project I'd worked on, and I found it really exciting. The client was very happy with the results, and I was proud of my contribution.
![Online Wordability Online Wordability](/img/portfolio/wordability.png)
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Hello Sunil, George is now in a home with dementia, Ronnie has died and Ken has lung cancer. I'd like to do something with this as a legacy. esthermorrison@yahoo.co.uk