Letterpress is a 2012 word game developed by American studio atebits and released on October 24, 2012, on iOS. It was later released under a new company, Solebon LLC, on July 20, 2016, for the Mac App Store.
Gameplay
Two players compete to take over the most territory on a grid with 25 letters. Each player takes a turn assembling words from the letters found on the grid. When players finish making a word, the selected letters turn into that player's color (either red or blue). If a player's tiles surround a letter, the other player cannot claim it. Players may choose to pass a turn. Once every square is occupied or if both players decide to pass their turns in the same round, the player with the greatest amount of squares taken wins.
Development
After leaving Twitter in November 2011, developer and founder of Atebits Loren Brichter started creating Letterpress. He was inspired by another word game, SpellTower, during a dinner with his wife, and Brichter wanted to make a multiplayer version of that game.
Release
Letterpress was first released on iOS on October 24, 2012. After the game was bought by a new company, Solebon LLC, Letterpress was released to the Mac App Store on July 20, 2016.
Reception
Letterpress has a Metacritic rating of 89 based on eight critics.
=== Accolades ===
Letterpress has been featured in the App Store's Best of 2012 list, which ranks the highest selling games of that year. In 2013, the game was nominated at the Worldwide Developers Conference and won the Apple Design Awards.