Swamp Talk on its Way to Apple for Approval

-- July 13, 2011

The new scrabble-meets-tetris word building game is on its way to Apple for approval before it can appear on the App Store later this month. Game designers at Tertl Studos in Montpelier, VT, just wrapped work on their flagship game product yesterday.

Swamp Talk takes you deep into a swampy virtual pad of paper where letters drift down from the margins. It's your job to turn these letters into words before they bump each other off the edge and fall into the swamp.

It's a quick, fun and addictive game that challenges your word skills like Scrabble and pushes your quick spatial problem solving the way visual puzzles do. Quite frankly, it was often hard to tear myself away from playing it to work on the sound design and music that help bring the game to life.

Chris Hancock is a long-time collaborator since I became his piano teacher back in the 1990's. His work at TERC and the MIT Media Lab has led him to create unique programming languages for kids and to his current work at his own Tertl Studos.