You can download the game now from the App Store or Google Play. If you want, you can spend money on in-game cosmetics drawn in Inman’s signature style, but they’re not required to play the game. I tried to just build a short-lived, likeable game, rather than a medicore game stretched across months of free-to-play garbage mechanics.
There’s an entire chapter built around slapping a trout in order to defrost it, and some musical deer that make sexy groans for way too long. This means that sometimes the chapters are long and almost seem to be discouraging you from playing. For Kitty Letter, I tried to just make the game as enjoyable as possible. For nonprofit organizations and businesses large and small, a well-designed newsletter is a key tool for building authority, increasing exposure, and staying connected with customers and supporters. I hate coins, currencies, chests, and other money-printing schemes disguised as fun. Create custom newsletters with Adobe Creative Cloud Express. I hate games built entirely around player retention and tricking people into keeping the app open as long as possible. Jotto, invented in the 1950s, offers a very similar head-to-head analog version, with two players.
I’ll let Inman explain why he made the game free in a blog post: The game show Lingo, recently revived in Britain, centers on a practically identical concept. (I do, so I found it all very amusing.)īest of all, it’s free to download, and the entire single-player story mode and its multiplayer mode are free to play. If you like The Oatmeal, you’ll probably enjoy the humor here. There were lots of funny drawings, offbeat gags, and even an extended section where I was forced to listen to a person make deer noises while backed by smooth Barry White-style soundtrack. I played the first few levels of Kitty Letter’s story mode, which not only served as a tutorial for the game’s mechanics, but also told a silly, Oatmeal comic-like story. The mechanics are easy to pick up, and everything was in reach of my thumb, so I could easily play it one-handed. Your opponent, meanwhile, is sending armies back at you to try to blow up yours. In the game, you swipe around letters at the bottom of your screen to spell words, which sends small armies of cats marching toward your opponent in an attempt to blow up their base. Inman describes it as “Scrabble combined with Clash Royale.” NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are a novel form of ownership that could rejigger the financial landscape for creators, even if the market for some of them proves frothy. Matthew Inman, the creator of The Oatmeal webcomics and popular card game Exploding Kittens, has released a free mobile word game called Kitty Letter.