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Proletariat Releases First iOS Game Letter Rush
Cambridge, MA---March 5, in the year of our Lord 2013---Proletariat
Inc., the new game development studio formed by senior staff
from the shuttered Zynga Boston, has officially announced today
their new iOS game title, Letter Rush.
Letter Rush, the first game released by Proletariat Inc., is
available now for free on the iPhone and iPad. Throw out your
bags of letters and those sloth-paced word games! Letter
Rushputs an arcade-spin on the classic word-find genre. Match
oncoming words quickly to score big points, finish goals, and
compete with your friends.
In single-player mode, it’s your job to swipe the incoming word
waves away before they bear down on you and destroy your
precious walls. Reach new levels, unlock increased multipliers,
and use amazing power-ups by completing goals and collecting
gems. Team up with a friend to rule the leaderboards in
20-fingered glory or settle disputes the wordy way in
synchronous multiplayer action.
Proletariat Inc., the development team behind Letter Rush,
officially revealed their new studio and pending game release
last week. After Zynga unexpectedly closed their office in
October 2012, five senior members of the Zynga Boston team,
creators of 2011’s acclaimed Indiana Jones Adventure World,
founded Proletariat Inc.
"We decided to build Letter Rush because we needed to get back
into the groove of building games as a small team," said Dan
Ogles, CTO at Proletariat. "The game started as a one-day
prototype to scratch a creative itch, not as a targeted concept
plucked from a market research report or by looking at our
competitors’ current offerings. We took the prototype and just
continued to iterate on it until we were happy."
The game took a little over two months to build according to
Seth Sivak, CEO at Proletariat, who said "It was great practice
for us. We knew we would need to rebuild our momentum and get
back to building games with a small, focused team." Proletariat
is already hard at work on their next game, going after a larger
challenge in the core tablet market.