Show HN: Snack Words - Real-time, Multi-player Word Game for iOS

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15 years ago

I just finished my first iOS game, Snack Words, which is a real-time, multi-player word finding game.

iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snack-words/id425786167?mt=8&ls=1

YouTube video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zPQuqoUHqU

I wanted to build something very simple and minimal. There's no figuring out who to play, and each game is only 90 seconds long.

The backend is 2,400 lines (so short!) of Erlang which speaks a custom protocol (length tagged JSON packets) to the client. The Objective-C side protocol implementation makes heavy use of blocks and works a lot like my JavaScript XMPP library.

I hope you like it. Please let me know what you think.

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