Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Introducing Lexical


Lexical, my first iPhone application, has just been accepted into the App Store. (You can find it here.)

Lexical is an incredibly simple word puzzle: tap to swap letter tiles around, then swipe to highlight words. It was written in about 14 days (after my previous attempt at an iPhone app ran into an unexpected brick wall), and took about as long to get approved.

Actually, following the recent problems with App Store rejections, I was kind of hoping that I'd get the same treatment. From a publicity point of view it's solid marketing gold. Given that dictionaries are now being rejected for containing dirty words, I was thinking of having a few expletives 'accidentally' appear on each board. (Mind you, I don't do any checking when the board's randomly generated, so there's still a chance that will happen every now and again — probably just as someone's grandmother fires up their first game, knowing my luck...)