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WordPops

by Matt Hall on Android /

We just released WordPops for Android last night. It’s a port of our super addictive word game for iPhone and we managed to keep all the features, including:

  • A Scored game mode to keep track of your top scores achieved before you run out of space for bubbles
  • A Relaxing game mode allows you to proceed at a steady pace and go for longer words
  • 2x, 3x and rare 5x word score bubbles
  • Freeze bubbles stop new bubbles from coming to give you a break
  • Mutate bubbles change the letters of adjacent bubbles
  • Explosive bubbles destroy adjacent bubbles to clear large parts of the board
  • Challenge your friends to beat your high score over email

Check out the screenshots below, Google phone users can click here to check out the game in the market. There’s also a free version you can get here to try it out. Send us a challenge if you think you’ve got a good score!

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  1. 1
    jeff on 03/24/09 at 07:09:13

    Any plans to fix the bugs with the Android version of wordpops? I love the game, but it’s crashing every 3rd or 4th game. Please post an update soon. I’m hesitant to try any more of your products until I know problems will be adressed.

  2. Matt Hall on 03/24/09 at 17:44:38

    Hi Jeff, we’ve heard of a couple people having problems but we’re having trouble reproducing the problem over here. We’ll keep trying and issue an update as soon as we can figure it out.

  3. Matt Hall on 03/30/09 at 16:40:03

    Just a note to anyone else who finds this post later, v1.0.3 of WordPops now in the Market should fix all known force closes.

  4. 2
    Jamie Houston on 07/10/09 at 00:48:27

    Hi Matt,

    How do you create a high score table in Android? I’ve been reading through tutorials all day and still can’t figure out how to store the data in a sqLite database and display the top 5 scores.

  5. Matt Hall on 07/23/09 at 23:22:03

    Hey Jamie, post what you’ve got so far and maybe we can help sort out your trouble. SQLite is one way to go, or you can store the list into user settings. Just depends which your more comfortable with.

  6. 3
    Josh on 03/05/10 at 10:23:41

    Hey Larva folk:

    My copy seems to have stopped ranking new best words, and only ranks new high scores. Is there a way to re-set so good words are also ranked in the high score list? I’m pretty sure I’ve beaten some of the words that are there now, but new stuff isn’t showing up.

    Also, is there a published formula for how scores are calculated?