Ace of Words
Update to dictionary EN
just to let you know that we have released small update.
There are improvements to the dictionary, specifically to 3-letter and 4-letter words.
These words have highest frequency so in general most issues with abbrevations and personal names were among this group of words.
We are continuously working on improving the dictionary and hope to update very soon 5-letter and 6-letter words as well.
We are aware that di9ctionary is not perfect and we are reading all your feedback in the discussion section. With each update game should be more enjoyable to play.
Thanks for understanding and we'll keep on updating you on all the developments.
Quick update on developments and leaderboard display
we have been busy in recent weeks as we were dealing with release of Solar Division here on Steam and Zotrix PS4 release.
I have been reading all the discussions and items which have been reported by all of you will be addressed in future updates.
First item is already addressed in short update which was released today and it's related to displaying leaderboards.
Leaderboard displayed in the game, in current version, is relative to your position.
We have removed position numbers to score entries as they make no sense and we added information showing your rank right below the entries.
Here's what's next for Ace Of Words:
- address dictionary issues (what we can at this point)
- adding German as next language - localization for UI and dictionary
- add button to Main Menu where you can switch leaderboard view from Global to Relative and vice versa
Big thing that we are working on is multi-player mode, which is actually what makes this game way more interesting than single player.
My expectation is to have ready mullti-player mode during December or January.
Thanks again for all the reports.
Stay tuned.
Vedran Klanac
creator of Ace Of Words
Addressing "letter randomness"
The initial model we used is more biased towards rare words and thus made the game a bit "harder" to play, or at least depends from what shoes are you looking at it.
We have developed four different models and the one which is set as active right now makes the game a bit more "friendly" so to say.
Anyway, in the future updates we plan to include all four models in the game and player will be able to chose what model to use within the options menu.
Along with that, there will be detailed explanation about each model and how each of them works.
I hope to have this update within next 10 days, as we are working now on creating a materials to present it within the game.
I hope you will enjoy the game more after this update.
Please send us your comments via discussion forums as every feedback we get is valuable for us to improve the game.
Cheers!
Vedran Klanac,
creator of Ace of Words
Update - added "Next Puzzle" button
this is first update for the game and I have added one feature which sparked as a result on the discussion group.
Once you unlock next puzzle, the progress bar is removed and on that spot is unlocked button "Next Puzzle" which allows you to go immediately to the next puzzle if you don't want to wait timer to go down.
Known issues we are working on:
- resolve randomness of letters generated for the puzzle based on frequence of letters
- keyboard responsivness when punching in letters