Bookworm Adventures

[Mr. Analog]

So, the guys over at Penny Arcade are all over it, but here's something you didn't know about Bookworm Adventures, formerly local cartoonist Stephen Notley (of Bob the Angry Flower) worked on this project as a script writer along with a lot of other talented artists and writers. The game itself actually seems like it might be fun, worth a free download at least I'm sure!

Bookworm Adventures

[Darren Dirt]

I've tormented my cohort with it, and now I will torture the readership: Bookworm Adventures is linguaphile crack, and games with much larger budgets have been losing to it daily since its release. Describing my cavern of amassed lexical artifacts might take weeks, but let me say that the collection is so comprehensive, so robust, and so well-organized that I'm thinking about charging admission.

Essentially a kind of Scrabble RPG, this thing is a Goddamn vampire and I can't escape its clutches. I don't want to have the sort of conversations with people that we describe in the comic, but I can't help it. It's like a "gear" that my mind gets stuck in. When I fish something like this [Acquiesce] out of a pile of random letters, I must say, I think I could create a galaxy if I really wanted to.

Sometimes I wonder why the PA guys don't write for The Daily Show or Bill Maher or something -- they've got a DouglasAdams-combined-with-FrankZappa-andor-GeorgeCarlin way with words