Word Ladder - a simple word game
Word Ladder is a multiplayer word game with simple rules: players write words that starts with last letter of previous one, new word cannot be shorter than previous one and cannot contain letters randomly chosen by the game.
At this moment available all singleplayer modes. Multiplayer modes also ready to playtest.
How to create multiplayer lobby:
1) Download and launch the game;
2) Go to "PLAY" - "MULTIPLAYER" - "NEW GAME" menu, specify game rules, then press "START";
3) Tell your IP to friends. Press "BEGIN" when you all are connected and ready to play!
Game is still in development at early alpha stages, and we plan a lot of new cool features and quality of life updates (although WordLadder in its current state is almost abandoned). If you really love this project and wan't to encourage us to release it, you can support development on Patreon
Source code: Github link
News
Current state of development
I hadn't released any update since 2019 and have no intention to do so in near future. Demo v11 is playable in it's current state, hovewer online services are totally broken and so unavailable.
To continue WordLadder development I have to do some important things beforehand. Important things will never end and this will take a long time, but my hope will never die too! So Demo v12 will eventually see the lights.
Improved Co-op Demo v0.0.1.11
We trying to polish our multiplayer and provide better experience before releasing next major update (although WordLadder in its current state is almost abandoned)
Version changelog:
- Added server browser,
- Added cool background to game screen,
- Added ForceOffline InteractiveBg, DebugMode and DebugDetailLog settings,
- Competitive multiplayer mode temporarily disabled,
- Added chat in multiplayer lobbies,
- Bugfix: Log In screen issue when WordLadder unable to save player data,
- Bugfix: the game counts Green Letters for previous word,
- Bugfix: hints showing no correct words,
- Bugfix: some players see textures page instead of actual game screen,
- Bugfix: infinite reconnectiong issue,
- Bugfix: multiplayer modes ignores initial word length setting,
- Bugfix: client crash after pressing Ready button,
- Bugfix: client crash while attempting to connect finished game,
- Bugfix: client crash at player disconnecting,
- Improved some UI elements and animations,
- A lot of multiplayer netcode bugfixes.
Word Ladder v0.0.1.9 Released!
All updates affects the visual part and saving system. Now the WordLadder supports widescreen 60FPS, sends your save to our cloud and counts more useless in-game stats.
Version changelog:
Graphics Demo v0.0.1.9
- Visual enhancements,
- Added auth menu,
- Added new background interactions,
- Improved dictionary loader,
- Added ictionary synchronization feature for words missed in main dictionary,
- WordLadder now saves IP-address of last joined multiplayer lobby,
- Added achievements page with placeholders for future updates,
- Added Best Score stats sections,
- Added lobby browser,
- Added widescreen support,
- Base FPS changed to 60,
- Added new block to main menu,
- Added Green letters stats counter,
- Added word length decreases stats counter,
- Changed hints behaviour to ensure hint guaranteed visible,
- Adjusted timers for hints to ensure player has enough time to read it and write the word,
- Words history scrolls to most similar word to make repeats more noticeable,
- Added manual word history scrolling with mouse,
- Changed progressbars for singleplayer objectives to diamond shaped ones,
- Some tweaks for gaining special abilities and difficulty increases,
- Removed timer in Endless mode,
- WordLadder now saves the Endless mode state,
- Escape button now opens stats menu instead of quitting to main menu.
More useless integrations!
We added news block into game. No one can miss our super important announcements!
Word Ladder page
The WordLadder now has its own webpage. Changelogs, announcements and other WordLadder content will be published on this page. Moreover, page still in development, so in future you can view your game stats on this page too.
This is how the page looks when just released:
Word Ladder Co-op Demo released!
Test your vocabulary with friends! Download page
Changelog:
- Added co-op multiplayer mode
- Added multiplayer game stats
- Added new background interactions
- Fixed button double click issue causing menu appears twice
- Visual enhancements.
