Letterpress: Game Guide, Developer and Facts

Letterpress is a 2012 turn-based word game developed by Loren Brichter and published by Atebits. In it, two players take turns creating words with letter tiles to cover the most territory. A tile can be locked by claiming those surrounding it, and a round concludes when all 25 tiles are claimed. Letterpress's development started in November 2011 after Brichter left Twitter, Inc. Focused on combining words with color, he based its game design on Boggle, color wars, and SpellTower. The gameplay gradually evolved during beta testing; in the prototype, players avoided using unclaimed tiles, leading to excessively long games, so to remedy it, Brichter made surrounded tiles unclaimable. Letterpress was released in October 2012 for iOS. Under Solebon LLC, it was released in July 2016 on the Mac App Store and in August 2017 on Google Play. While Letterpress was praised for its minimalist design and strategic gameplay, it was criticized for its usage of Game Center. Letterpress was ranked second in the App Store's Best of 2012 list and won the 2013 Apple Design Awards. Apple designer Jony Ive took inspiration from minimalist iOS apps, among them Letterpress, while designing graphics for iOS 7.

Quick facts about Letterpress

• Title: Letterpress
• Developer: Loren Brichter
• Released: 2012
• Type: Video game
• Wikidata ID: Q18353647

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