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'Drop:' Notch's New (Free) Minimalistic Word Typing Game

Posted on April 29, 2013

Notch's newest gaming creation employs pattern recognition in a hypnotic, new word-typing game: Drop. The game operates on Unity's web browser plugin and is influenced by Super Hexagon, but simplifies aesthetics to a basic white-gray gradient and rotating cube art.

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On the surface, there's not much to it: Drop starts you off with a word ("drop"), followed by more letters that appear slowly at first, but accelerate. These letters form more words of varying complexity, but their 'spawning' is paced in a way that can make identification a challenge. It might not sound difficult at first, but being a quick typist rapidly becomes irrelevant once the words coalesce into an endless stream of seemingly-independent letters; the quicker you can identify words and patterns (repeating words), the quicker you can type. Similarly, the longer it takes to find the end of one word and the beginning of the next, the more likely you are to miss a letter. Miss one, you lose.

The core idea here is that it takes significantly longer to hammer-out disjointed letters than it does to type a full word ("journey," "universe," "deconstruct," "question" are just a few sample words).

It takes seconds to get the game running and operational, and it's really pretty addicting. Give it a shot for free over here: http://drop.notch.net/

- Steve "Lelldorianx" Burke.