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| Useful Lingo in This Chapter
I've been told many times that word searches are the most popular puzzle game in the world. With its combination of simplicity and long play times, I believe it. To play word search, you need both luck and logic. At the start of the game, you can quickly scan the matrix and notice a few words. But by the time you are down to the last few words, you are forced to examine the matrix letter by letter. Although they hold no real educational value, other than teaching concentration and patience, word searches are still a good way to wrap a theme up into a game. The best word searches use words that are all related to each other, thus making the game more appealing, assuming you are interested in the theme that all the words share. As a Lingo program, word searches present quite a few problems. This is probably why you see so few word search games done with Director. Most notably, programmers have trouble generating a random arrangement of letters that contain the words and using graphics to highlight a playerÕs selection. WeÕll look at those issues here and come up with solutions. | |