Our typing game OMG! Words! has been updated with support for Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, ahead of its release in April.
Other than version support bumps, there is nothing new.
The game still offers the same increasingly-frustrating gameplay, cool soundtrack, and annoying twists that make it more challenging than you first think.
All of the words that appear in the game are pulled from actual posts here on the site, so no two games will be the same. The selection of words presented to you is every changing based on whatever it is we’re writing about.
Gameplay
The aim of the game is simple: correctly type each of the words that shows on screen before those words reaches the bottom. Things start off at a steady pace, but the pressure soon ramps up.
Drop too many words and Benjamin will start hurling his trademark insults as “motivation”. Drop more than 10 words in total and bam—game over.
Be sure to keep an eye out for an errant Benjamin* as he zips across the screen. Any word his ugly mug touches will be scrambled, and you’ll have to type the typo’d version to score. Fear not; if my visage should appear and touch a scrambled word, it will return to normal.
—which is, actually, the inverse of how things actually work around here given I make the typos, and Benjamin cleans them up…
If you want to see a user review of the game in action, hit play on the video below. This video does NOT feature the in-game soundtrack, though.
How to install OMG! Words! in Ubuntu
Ubuntu 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04 users can install the game by adding the PPA below.
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tommybrunn/omgwords
- sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install omgwords
Once installed you can launch it by shouting ‘OMG’ into the Dash search bar: –
The game is also available for Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10 but also requires the Love stable PPA to be added to your Software Sources prior to installation.
*Benjamim Humphrey is now a former (infamous) OMG! Ubuntu! writer