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Total ArKade makes mobile word game 'AbraWordabra' appear
The first game from Total ArKade, the company started by ex-Halfbrick employee Tony Takoushi, is "AbraWordabra" for iOS, Android, and Bada, a title that shows the studio's commitment to camel case.It's also a collection of word games built around the concept of grabbing animate letter-block people as they amble around the bottom of the screen – they're normal people who have been transformed into letter blocks by an evil magician, naturally. You'll put those people to good use by first dropping them into a magic book to turn them to letters, then filling in missing letters from words, rewriting misspelled words, coming up with the biggest word you can in a limited time, and guiding floating letters to safety by tilting the phone.You'll be able to pull AbraWordabra out of a hat (by which we mean your phone's app store) on May 2. A free "lite" version will be released the same day.
Total ArKade is new mobile studio from Fruit Ninja dev
Former Halfbrick (Jetpack Joyride, Fruit Ninja) developer Tony Takoushi has started Total ArKade, a new independent studio focused on mobile games. The studio will "give players the same gorgeous art, great audio and compulsive gaming they would recognise from Halfbrick productions," said Takoushi. He added that studio will also foster "some very innovative gameplay," which Takoushi hopes to showcase in Total ArKade's first title, to be released "shortly" on iOS, Android and Samsung's Bada smartphone platform.If Total ArKade has even an ounce of that Halfbrick magic, you can bet we'll be keeping an eye on it.
