Bollix 1.0a3
Don't worry, I suck at this game tooBollix is a word game based on a possibly familiar real-life game. Find as many words as possible on a 4x4 board of random letters in three minutes. Longer words award more points.
At the moment, Bollix is a one- or two-player game. I don't have much confidence in the networking code yet, which is why I consider this version to be “alpha.” Ultimately I'd like to have network games with an arbitrary number of players.
What are people saying about Bollix?
“Anne Karine beta-tested Bollix for 4.5 hours last night. I had to club her and drag her to bed.”
“It's nice that you've invented something that distracts my wife's attention away from the hours I spend playing Hitman 2 Silent Assassin.”
“You will be the reason I fail out of grad school.”
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Changes since 0.9b1
- Added two-player network play with chat
- If you close the game window, the program quits
- Fixed a crash caused by failed connections to the dictionary server
- Rearranged main window and dictionary panel
- Dictionary panel has clickable links
- Changed timer to hourglass in toolbar
- Removed 103,939 questionable words from the lexicon
Changes since 0.7b1
- Letters are displayed in random orientations like real dice (can be turned off in Preferences)
- If you don't like typing, you can click on the game board, and double-click on the last letter to submit a word
- Double-click on a word in the word list to see its definition
- Numerous invisible architectural changes
Changes since 0.6.1b2
- Switched lexicon to YAWL by Mendel Cooper
- Lexicon loads in background to avoid annoying interface hang-ups
- Added preference panel