You play as Lex, a sesquipedalian worm, who is sent inside a library book to attempt to rescue Greek mythological heroine Cassandra. But Bookworm Adventures transformed it into something so damned weird that it could only be magic. There was a game before it, Bookworm, a more traditional puzzler, that honestly isn't very good.

Yeah, bet you forgot that one! And while perhaps their peak crossover moment came with Plants Vs Zombies, moments before they were bought by EA, for me my favourite will always be that wormy word game. So much so that there was even a crossover special edition of Peggle in Valve's Orange Box. Probably most broadly famous for Bejeweled, they were putting out a mix of so many game types, from hidden object to arcade to pachinko, managing to blur the fiercely guarded line between 'casual' and 'hardcore'.

Even more so the breadth of their appeal, somehow ingeniously presenting themselves as both a 'casual games' outlet releasing across all those super-mainstream sites like Big Fish, and a specialist company who were incredibly early to get their games onto Steam. It's hard to believe just what an extraordinary hit factory PopCap was back in 2007. If I had to keep one, I'd have trodden on Peggle to save my Bookworm Adventures. But there was one of us that preferred another PopCap game at the time, and that handsome chap was me. We all loved Peggle, because we weren't mad. A file size that became peculiarly important to the site for a number of years - for reasons implausible to explain it became the international unit for measuring demo sizes. In action mode, the game does not wait for the player to craft words to set tiles on fire, rather, tiles will set on fire as time passes on.Back in the very early days of RPS, a little game called Peggle was released. The alternative to classic mode is action mode, which runs in real time. The basic mode, called classic, employs the basic rules of the game, described above. When they do this, however, it allows all burning tiles to burn down through one letter, as well as setting a few more tiles on fire for each scramble.Bookworm provides various modes of play for the player to enjoy. It is best to eliminate burning tiles as soon as possible.If a player finds themselves stuck with the current letters, they can click on the worm to the left to scramble the letters. Once this happens, they will burn up the entire screen, ending the game. If they are unused long enough, they will reach the bottom of the playing board. These tiles will burn downwards through other tiles as long as they go unused. In the beginning, the numbers of burning tiles are manageable, but they become quite the hassle later on. This word changes each round, or whenever the player makes the selected word.Burning tiles will appear in increasing numbers as the player advances. The game has a bonus word for each round of play, and if the player makes the word, they will get bonus points for doing so. These tiles also provide extra protection from burning tiles, as they take longer to burn through then basic tiles. Using these tiles to craft new words will increase the point value of the word created. These tiles appear to indicate the players skill in creating longer words. The least of the bonus tiles are the green tiles, followed by gold tiles, up to Sapphire tiles, and finally, the most coveted of all bonus tiles, the diamond tiles. Whenever a player makes a good sized word, bonus tiles of greater value will appear. Basic bonus tiles, the green colored bonus tiles, will appear randomly throughout gameplay. Less common letters, such as Q's, grant the player more points when used to create words.īonus tiles also come in handy for increasing one's score. More common letters, such as vowels, do not have high point values. For example, some letters are worth more points then others. However, many things effect the value of each word. In most cases, the longer the word, the better. In their place, new letters will appear, dropping down from the top of the screen. When a player forms a word and submits it, assuming the word is accepted, the letters used will disappear. By connecting the letters in the appropriate order, players form words of various lengths in order to gain points. Gameplayīookworm is a word game requiring players to assemble words from a grid of letters provided on screen. Bookworm is a word strategy game by PopCap Games, initially released as a downloadable title for the PC.

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