Your character (Lex, the green bookworm on the left) and the enemy (on the right) take turns attacking each other, and the winner is whoever depletes the other player's health bar first. This is the 'battle screen,' where most of the game's action takes place. Here's a picture of the original Bookworm Adventures:Īnd here's a picture of my browser-based version: Feel free to suggest any plotline ideas you may come up with, but in my opinion, the game does not urgently need a plot.īy the way, if you don't want to read all of the instructions below, just play the tutorial.

It happens that as I've gotten older, my appetite for inventing fantasy storylines has been greatly diminished, and I now find the back-end code and game mechanics more interesting than the superficial decoration. It currently has no plot - it's just just RPG-style combat for its own sake, without any princesses to save or big baddies to hunt down. I've done my best to reconstruct the original game's playful vibes through the artwork, dialogue and flavor text. You can play a Beta version of the game at this link. Since Bookworm Adventures was such a big part of my childhood, I decided to try rebuilding a playable version of it in the browser. The only way I've been able to play BWA in the past few years has been through a glitchy, ad-ridden online version that didn't save progress. It eventually fell out of support, and there never was a version of the game playable on Mac or iOS. Unfortunately, BWA was never a very popular game. During my childhood, I spent a lot of time playing Bookworm Adventures, obsessing over its quirky characters, and wishing I could add my own characters, levels, and mechanics to the game. I finished them in 4-3 days. So I wanted to check if there were more sequels, but sadly there wasn't any more to the series.Bookworm Adventures is a word-forming combat-based RPG videogame, created originally by PopCap games.

and so I played both of them and was addicted straight away! 2, and I was completely touched by the memories of the game and I decided to get it in the USB Flash and put it in my current PC. I was going through my games in my old PC that I had when I was little, and I saw that I had the game Bookworm Adventures Deluxe & Vol.

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