The Game Maker with Jan Ligaard
Episode description
Jan Ligaard is the CEO and co-founder of Immer Puzzles, fresh out of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The company Immerspiele makes online word games to rival Wordle. A Reddit user said their game MOVES is akin to word chess—you need a strategy.
They launched two months ago and already have 70,000 daily word game players in Denmark. The game is free and you don't even need an account to play it. Currently, there are four addictive games to play for free -- Moves, Stack, Splice, and Middle. To keep people from losing their minds and playing til 3 am, Jan says they designed the game to reset at midnight each night - so once you play, you have to wait a day to play again -- oddly, this makes it more addictive but in a good way.
Jan has been creating beautiful things for the past two decades with breathtaking designs for digital brands.
Jan shares his story behind Immer Puzzles with his co-founder (they were tired of playing Wordle for starters) and how they had to create a new version of a Danish dictionary to ensure that every word, in any form, could be used in the game.
Tune into this episode and learn how digital games are made!
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