Nebulous Games

The creators of Word Blastoff — an iOS word game. About the Game: Think outside the grid. Break free from the traditional, boring Scrabble clone. NEVER “wait for your turn.” Word Blastoff is a fast, fun, new way to play with words. Download to blastoff! Drag, spell, swipe. Infinite fun. Download to blastoff! To save letters from getting sucked into the black hole. DRAG letters to the dock • SPELL a word • SWIPE to score points Great for people of all ages, and a great educational tool for kids learning to spell! Multiple players can gather around a phone to collaborate in a game! GALACTIC GAMEPLAY: Fight gravity in multiple levels of cosmic fun! Each level varies speed and word requirements. In harder levels, letters move more quickly towards the black hole and there are more stringent requirements on the words; for example, the HARD level only accepts words longer than two letters. PINK LETTERS give you more health and GREEN LETTERS double your score. ASTRONOMICAL ATTRIBUTES: Check out your statistics: high score, best (highest scoring) word, favorite (most used) word, and vocabulary distribution. Find out the definitions of words you’ve spelled in the post-game dictionary. Featuring magnetic music and stellar sounds by French composer Clément Duquesne. More power ups and challenges coming soon. About the Developers: Michelle Khare and Nook Harquail are seniors at Dartmouth College who created Word Blastoff for their senior year culminating experience project. They wanted to create a word game that breaks free from the traditional Scrabble/Boggle “game grid” and is faster to play?