Devlog
Notes on building Word Wars — the design problems, the wrong turns, and what the code ended up doing about them.
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14 September 2026
I finally released my first game
Word Wars went live, and then twenty strangers turned up on the daily leaderboard. Making the game was only half the job.
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10 September 2026
Word endings make terrible word beginnings
The game’s whole rule is that your last letters become somebody else’s first letters. English has opinions about that.