Well as children am sure most of us have played scrabble with our siblings and parents well if I certainly did and also with one of my uncle who used to cheat and make up words which were not there at all in the english dictionary.
Well today came across scrabulous and online scrabble game developed by two indian brothers well first of all the game is highly addictive. I signed up for it the sign up process is a bit troublesome there is Ajax used but not to its web 2.0 potential but after that just entered a game and created a table and was soon joined by a fellow player for a game it was nice but then I wanted more but then again I had to get back to work so could not play but will head there anytime I want break from my work and some exercise to challenge my grey cells.
Scrabulous is a venture undertaken by two brothers they are claiming that they have 5 million page views a month which is remarkable and the brothers do plan to launch the game in many international versions and also adding more games to their offering. well good luck to them it is a great offering and I think they are cool enough to pull off more success stories in online gaming space. the website is built on php and the actual game is built as a java applet this is what i didn’t like it was a flash widget then it would have been good but java applets now are considered to be irritating but then again am sure they must be making plans to migrate it to either a pure ajax app or a flash based one. The site also has a basic social networking features like buddy list etc but overall it is a great game and very innovative it is good to see young Indians like this keeping the innovation alive and now as they have released this as a facebook app they will be reaching a much bigger target audience which is good for them.
Do try it out if you liked scrabble am sure you will like this online avatar of the game. am waiting to see what more good games the brothers can come up with one of them is still in college and is 21 years old.