Goodbye Scrabulous, hello Wordscraper
p2pnet news view | Games:- Proving you can’t keep a good game down, especially where the Net is concerned, Scrabble spell-alike Scrabulous is back —- sort of.
Created by brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla from India, it was hot on Facebook until joint Scrabble owners Mattel and Hasbro claimed Scrabulous infringed their copyright and demanded it be taken down
Result?
“Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice,” said Facebook.
So, “Don’t follow rules, make them!” – decided the Agarwallas.
Result?
Enter Wordscraper, the, “only game on Facebook that allows you to play the game the way you want to!” – says the blurb, going on»»»
With Wordscraper you can build your own board and try out whacky combinations with special high value squares.
The game is turn based, so you need not be online for very long periods. Plus, we also give you the option to store a board layout. This saves time when you want to play new games with the same layout.
So give it a try, you will love it. Don’t follow rules, make them!
As of 8:07 Pacific, it had 3,569 daily active users and was scoring 4.8 out of 5, said Facebook.
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.Stumble It!
Scrabble spell-alike – Game over for Scrabulous?, July 30, 2008
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July 31st, 2008 at 2:06 pm
“City of Heroes” maker NCSoft was told by Marvel to disallow custom superheroes too similar to their own characters. Mattel-Hasbro could tell the Agarwallas to stop certain combinations that are too close to Scrabble’s board layout.