SpellTower Classic Zach Gage - Originally written about in The New York Times, featured in Apple Stores, heard about on NPR, and played by millions, … TouchArcade Rating: $2.99 Buy Now Watch Media Details- Originally written about in The New York Times, featured in Apple Stores, heard about on NPR, and played by millions, SpellTower is back and better than ever! - - - - - WORDS + STRATEGY = AWESOME Pick your words wisely! As you work, more tiles rise from the bottom of the screen, and it'll take all of your lexicological wits, and tactical know-how to keep them down. If any of the letters make it to the top row, it's game over. SIX AMAZING MODES - TOWER MODE : No pressure here. Try and get the highest score possible out of 140 tiles, eliminating small words to set up 7- and 8-letter blockbusters! - DAILY TOWER MODE : Stack up against other players on identical towers that change daily! - PUZZLE MODE : Every word you make adds a new row of letters! Strategic word finding at its best. - EXTREME PUZZLE MODE : Puzzle mode with the minimum word length cranked up. Experts only! - ZEN MODE : Puzzle mode without any length requirements. - RUSH MODE : Rows of letters build up over time. Find words as fast as you can, but be careful you don't back yourself into a corner! - [Bonus!] SUPER TOWER MODE : (iPad Pro only) Try and get the highest score possible out of 432 tiles, eliminating small words to set up 7- and 8-letter blockbusters! GAME CENTER leader boards and achievements, for each mode, and highest scoring word! - - - - WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING Best Word Game! - 148Apps' 2011 Best App Ever Awards - Touch Arcade's Favorite Puzzle game of 2011 - Ranked #2 in Mashable's Top 10 iPhone Word Games "Simple, stylish and furiously addictive. Far and away the best ‘pure’ word game on iOS." 5/5 stars - Tap! Magazine "I'm obsessed, I'm ignoring my family!" - John Moe, NPR Marketplace "guaranteed to entertain" - IGN "by far one of the best [word puzzle games] in recent years" - 4.5/5 Stars - Editors Choice - 148Apps "SpellTower is an extraordinary word game that deserves a place among the best of the genre." - 4/4 - SlideToPlay "The Boggle Tetris That We Needed” - Kotaku's Gaming App of The Day "A must-buy for word fiends, SpellTower is an uncommonly attractive and thoughtfully designed puzzler" - 9/10 - Gold Award - Pocket Gamer "Nervy, humbling, and strangely energizing. If you can handle the stress, SpellTower is magnificent" - EDGE Magazine "A superb word game... for anyone in your household who loves a good word teaser, even the most technologically-challenged. Grab it and start spelling!" - JayIsGames "It's Boggle on crack... only costs 2$, and your life." - Weekend Confirmed "The best word game you haven't played", "A brain-picking puzzler" - Pitchfork / KillScreen Magazine "I’m already convinced SpellTower is a significantly better game [than PopCap’s Bookworm]." - playontap.com Information Seller:Zach Gage Genre:Puzzle, Word Release:Nov 17, 2011 Updated:Jan 18, 2019 Version:5.1.2 Size:138.8 MB TouchArcade Rating: User Rating: (13) Your Rating:unrated Compatibility:HD Universal SpellTower is out today! Click the icon above for an appstore link to the game Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel www.spelltower.com A Word Game that Does Your iPad Justice. With its huge 10x15 tile grid, SpellTower has room for some serious word strategy. Find and swipe words in 4 challenging modes. Finding words clears them from the screen, dropping any tiles above. Make long words or use bonus tiles to clear extra letters from the screen! Words + Strategy = Awesome Pick your words wisely! As you work, more tiles rise from the bottom of the screen, and it'll take all of your lexicological wits and tactical know-how to keep them down. If any of the letters make it to the top row, it's game over. Four Amazing Modes Tower Mode No pressure here. Try and get the highest score possible out of 150 letters, eliminating small words to set up 7- and 8-letter blockbusters! Puzzle Mode Every word you make adds a new row of letters! Strategic word finding at its best. Extreme Puzzle Mode Like Puzzle mode, but with the minimum word length cranked up. Experts only! Rush Mode Rows of letters build up over time. Find words as fast as you can, but be careful you don't back yourself into a corner! Game Center Integration Show off how smart you are with online leaderboards for each mode and best word! Even my Mom, who hasn't played a videogame since Tetris, is addicted to SpellTower. caltab Well-Known Member Feb 11, 2010 437 0 0 #2 caltab, Nov 17, 2011 like all your other games so ill give this one a try Gabrien Well-Known Member Nov 24, 2009 5,148 0 36 #3 Gabrien, Nov 17, 2011 I lost interest in Halcyon rather fast, never really got into Bit Pilot, but Unify has been enough for me to continue feeling like I'll buy whatever this dev releases sight unseen. At least thus far. stfj Well-Known Member Sep 18, 2009 227 39 28 Male #4 stfj, Nov 17, 2011 Thanks caltab sorry you didn't feel the recent games Gabrien, I hope you enjoy this one! Gabrien Well-Known Member Nov 24, 2009 5,148 0 36 #5 Gabrien, Nov 17, 2011 Impressions This a great time to be releasing word games, and this one is very, very good. Clean, crisp graphics and interface, good variety of game modes, and core gameplay that simply works. Put simply: if you enjoy word games you want to add this one to your collection. djflippy Well-Known Member Mar 9, 2009 4,441 0 36 #6 djflippy, Nov 17, 2011 ^this epedemix Well-Known Member Aug 25, 2009 505 0 0 #7 epedemix, Nov 17, 2011 Looks pretty cool, tis a shame it is only for iPad. sapphire_neo Well-Known Member Jan 20, 2011 3,934 0 0 #8 sapphire_neo, Nov 17, 2011 That's quite some pedigree, almost has me sold. I'm going to wait for a few more impressions before diving in. Bad Hanson Well-Known Member Apr 13, 2009 513 0 0 Somnambulist The Westcountry UK #9 Bad Hanson, Nov 17, 2011 Buy it...as has been said here Zach makes smart polished games worth both your time and your money. Why wait? Personally this game along with Electric Box 2.5 are easily enough to keep me entertained this week. miiifan Well-Known Member Aug 22, 2010 98 0 0 Singapore http://stephenceresia.ca #10 miiifan, Nov 17, 2011 "Zach Gage" and "new app" was enough for me to click Buy. That said, I'm not even a fan of word games and I'm already in love with Spell Tower. It's like Tetris with words packaged in a gorgeously clean design. pavarotti2007 Well-Known Member Sep 19, 2010 1,030 0 0 UK #11 pavarotti2007, Nov 17, 2011 Is it just GC leaderboards or does it have GC achievements too? LordGek Well-Known Member Staff Member Patreon Silver Patreon Gold Patreon Bronze Feb 19, 2009 12,282 141 63 Software QA Engineer Saratoga, CA, USA #12 LordGek, Nov 17, 2011 Just leaderboards, I'm afraid. LordGek Well-Known Member Staff Member Patreon Silver Patreon Gold Patreon Bronze Feb 19, 2009 12,282 141 63 Software QA Engineer Saratoga, CA, USA #13 LordGek, Nov 17, 2011 The game is good fun. Yet another case of dragging a path through adjacent tiles to spell words, nothing new there, but it does have a couple of novel twists: 1) Spell words over 4 letters and it will blast adjacent tiles as well. I don't think you get points for these extra letters but it is handy for clearing crap out of the way. 2) Black tiles are just annoying obstacles that can only be cleared if a word is spelled adjacent to them (although diagonally adjacent won't work for this). 3) Many tiles will have a number in the upper right which is not its point value but the minimum number of letters of the word this letter can be included in. So if that "S" has a 4, you can't use it in a 3 letter word (this mechanic gets really nasty in Extreme Puzzle only a few words in). stfj Well-Known Member Sep 18, 2009 227 39 28 Male #14 stfj, Nov 17, 2011 hey guys, I'm so happy you're enjoying SpellTower! LordGek: You do indeed get points for the extra cleared letters The way the scoring works is each letter has a point value similar to scrabble, and all those points are added up and then multiplied by word length. Thats why row clear tiles or 9 letter words rack up huge scores pavarotti2007: No achievements yet, but they are coming soon stfj Well-Known Member Sep 18, 2009 227 39 28 Male #15 stfj, Nov 17, 2011 @epedemix: Hopefully going to be putting out an iphone version of the puzzle mode in spellTower in a few weeks davidbhowe Member Oct 21, 2011 16 0 0 #16 davidbhowe, Nov 17, 2011 Congratulations on the release, Zach! I saw your comment late last night on Touch Arcade and checked out the game. I really appreciate the fine UI polish you put in (user feedback, the glowing letters, the words that you create fade out after completion) - that attention to detail really makes this game shine. LordGek Well-Known Member Staff Member Patreon Silver Patreon Gold Patreon Bronze Feb 19, 2009 12,282 141 63 Software QA Engineer Saratoga, CA, USA #17 LordGek, Nov 17, 2011 Some new mode or power-up ideas: Compress Mode: Tower mode but if there is ever an empty column, the remaining columns will press in so as not to leave those dang stragglers off to the side. Gravity's Rainbow Mode: Tower mode again as the base but there is no gravity (per se). Once a word is cleared the remaining tiles above the cleared letters simply hover in place. In addition to this odd behavior, gravitational force power-ups would be added into the game. These would be letters with an arrow on them pointing either up, down, left, or right. If a word is made with one of these letters all tiles in the field are shifted as far as they can go in that direction (if multiple forces are used in a word they are activated in their order of appearance in the word). Sliders Mode: Not sure if this would be Tower or Puzzle mode as a base but it would introduce a power-up that would allow the player to freely slide the row or column where the power-up was activated (probably on a letter, activated when that letter is used in a word). If sliding up/down the column's height would remain unchanged, with just the top letter tile appearing on the bottom of the active column or visa versa when slid. Just some ideas that came to me as I played, use freely or toss at your discretion, stfj. JGeldhof Well-Known Member May 26, 2010 73 0 0 Comic Artist / Illustrator Kent, Ohio http://www.jaygeldhof.com/ #18 JGeldhof, Nov 17, 2011 Awesome game. Already a favorite. mrkgoo Well-Known Member Dec 16, 2008 426 0 0 #19 mrkgoo, Nov 18, 2011 Pretty much all ZG games are must buys for me. I love the design and implementation. This game is pretty similar to others like Wordsworth and bookworm, but I like this more, again, due to the simplicity and elegance. Since it uses squares, there's 8-way directions and you can cross back over your own word. It does feel a little more random, but I guess that,s because I tend to be not very good vocabulary wise - I get stuck once the 6letter ones start coming! Anyway, I was waiting for Blueprints 3D HD, but I got Spelltower and electric box for the same price, so these will tide me over fine. HerbertKornfeld Well-Known Member Oct 13, 2008 141 1 18 #20 HerbertKornfeld, Nov 18, 2011 Buggy Button Great game. A small suggestion, though. The done button in tower mode needs some work. It activates on press instead of on release. So if you accidentally press this button (easy to do) youre game is instantly over. You cant even move your finger and release away from the button. No are you sure or anything. Just Game Over, heres your score. And whats worse, when you hit done the grey overlay comes down from the top, making me think that my iPad is kernel panicking. Not cool. 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I lost interest in Halcyon rather fast, never really got into Bit Pilot, but Unify has been enough for me to continue feeling like I'll buy whatever this dev releases sight unseen. At least thus far.
Impressions This a great time to be releasing word games, and this one is very, very good. Clean, crisp graphics and interface, good variety of game modes, and core gameplay that simply works. Put simply: if you enjoy word games you want to add this one to your collection.
That's quite some pedigree, almost has me sold. I'm going to wait for a few more impressions before diving in.
Buy it...as has been said here Zach makes smart polished games worth both your time and your money. Why wait? Personally this game along with Electric Box 2.5 are easily enough to keep me entertained this week.
"Zach Gage" and "new app" was enough for me to click Buy. That said, I'm not even a fan of word games and I'm already in love with Spell Tower. It's like Tetris with words packaged in a gorgeously clean design.
The game is good fun. Yet another case of dragging a path through adjacent tiles to spell words, nothing new there, but it does have a couple of novel twists: 1) Spell words over 4 letters and it will blast adjacent tiles as well. I don't think you get points for these extra letters but it is handy for clearing crap out of the way. 2) Black tiles are just annoying obstacles that can only be cleared if a word is spelled adjacent to them (although diagonally adjacent won't work for this). 3) Many tiles will have a number in the upper right which is not its point value but the minimum number of letters of the word this letter can be included in. So if that "S" has a 4, you can't use it in a 3 letter word (this mechanic gets really nasty in Extreme Puzzle only a few words in).
hey guys, I'm so happy you're enjoying SpellTower! LordGek: You do indeed get points for the extra cleared letters The way the scoring works is each letter has a point value similar to scrabble, and all those points are added up and then multiplied by word length. Thats why row clear tiles or 9 letter words rack up huge scores pavarotti2007: No achievements yet, but they are coming soon
@epedemix: Hopefully going to be putting out an iphone version of the puzzle mode in spellTower in a few weeks
Congratulations on the release, Zach! I saw your comment late last night on Touch Arcade and checked out the game. I really appreciate the fine UI polish you put in (user feedback, the glowing letters, the words that you create fade out after completion) - that attention to detail really makes this game shine.
Some new mode or power-up ideas: Compress Mode: Tower mode but if there is ever an empty column, the remaining columns will press in so as not to leave those dang stragglers off to the side. Gravity's Rainbow Mode: Tower mode again as the base but there is no gravity (per se). Once a word is cleared the remaining tiles above the cleared letters simply hover in place. In addition to this odd behavior, gravitational force power-ups would be added into the game. These would be letters with an arrow on them pointing either up, down, left, or right. If a word is made with one of these letters all tiles in the field are shifted as far as they can go in that direction (if multiple forces are used in a word they are activated in their order of appearance in the word). Sliders Mode: Not sure if this would be Tower or Puzzle mode as a base but it would introduce a power-up that would allow the player to freely slide the row or column where the power-up was activated (probably on a letter, activated when that letter is used in a word). If sliding up/down the column's height would remain unchanged, with just the top letter tile appearing on the bottom of the active column or visa versa when slid. Just some ideas that came to me as I played, use freely or toss at your discretion, stfj.
Pretty much all ZG games are must buys for me. I love the design and implementation. This game is pretty similar to others like Wordsworth and bookworm, but I like this more, again, due to the simplicity and elegance. Since it uses squares, there's 8-way directions and you can cross back over your own word. It does feel a little more random, but I guess that,s because I tend to be not very good vocabulary wise - I get stuck once the 6letter ones start coming! Anyway, I was waiting for Blueprints 3D HD, but I got Spelltower and electric box for the same price, so these will tide me over fine.
Buggy Button Great game. A small suggestion, though. The done button in tower mode needs some work. It activates on press instead of on release. So if you accidentally press this button (easy to do) youre game is instantly over. You cant even move your finger and release away from the button. No are you sure or anything. Just Game Over, heres your score. And whats worse, when you hit done the grey overlay comes down from the top, making me think that my iPad is kernel panicking. Not cool. Okay, maybe that last ones just me. But the first issue is definitely worth fixing.
