Users can no longer accuse Amazon's Kindle of being nothing more than a stuffy eBook reader too good for gaming. The Kindle Development Kit (KDK) launched earlier this year ensured it was only a matter of time before we saw some other apps for the Kindle. like the two games that have just been released.
Both titles are simple word puzzles (you weren't really expecting Quake, were you?), starting with Every Word, a world scramble game. Users are shown six or seven scrambled letters and are challenged to come up with as many words as possible. Think of it as Scrabble Lite.
The other game is Shuffled Row, which tasks users will seeing how many words they can make from 60 lettered tiles. Tiles are added to your row one at a time, giving you a constant pool of fresh letters to work with. YOu can think of this one as, um, Scrabble Lite as well.
Simple? Sure, and they're also both free. It's also the just the beginning of more to come, and we suspect at some point we'll see some paid games show up, as developers get a 70 percent cut of the revenue.
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1968Panther
August 05, 2010 at 1:31pm
Believe it, or not, if it can do Pong, I actually would like to see it. I remember playing Pong when it first came out (so what if that dates me...for the time, that truly WAS high-tech).
Keith E. Whisman
August 05, 2010 at 9:41am
I wonder if we can get 3D in Gray Scale on the Kindle. Perhaps we can do something with shutter glasses.
1968Panther
August 05, 2010 at 1:30pm
Instead of using shutter glasses, maybe you should try blinking your eyes...left, right, left, right, etc...it would be faster than what the Kindle could handle. It's not that I don't like the Kindle, for I do, but it was never designed to do games, and even though it can, any games released, such as these two, would have to be fairly simple. I do think that (slightly) more advanced games could be done for the Kindle, but not by a great amount. As for 3D games, try sticking to a PC, or, if you must, a PS3.
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