wordscraper

Scrabulous gets a facelift, name change

Thursday, July 31st, 2008


The makers of Scrabulous (RIP) are hoping that by changing the name and the shape of their tiles they can a escape copyright infringement lawsuit on the part of Scrabble’s creators, Hasbro. The unfortunately named Wordscraper has many of the same hallmarks as its previous incarnation, namely, the itty-bitty, teeny-tiny message box. It’s also got the light, airy feel of the previous version, which compared to the real Scrabble, is pretty fancy with lots of bells and whistles, but seems to be plagued by some technical difficulties. Especially bad, considering I couldn’t even get the program to recognize the names of my friends I wanted to invite and the Start button was un-responsive. Le sigh.