(Pocket-lint) - Steven Cravotta developed a phrase recreation referred to as Wordle 5 years in the past, no it is not that Wordle that you simply play on daily basis, however they share the identical identify.
As you may think, Steven's previous and largely forgotten app noticed a sudden and big inflow of curiosity in latest months.
Since this Wordle recreation predates the brand new Wordle by a few years, it was secure from Apple's latest culling of Wordle clones from its app retailer.
Steven Cravotta defined on Twitter that his app had not been as profitable as he had hoped upon preliminary launch "after a number of months and ~100k complete downloads, I finished updating and selling" and as such its numbers dwindled and the app was left to assemble mud.
The brand new Wordle recreation is browser-based and has no app, however when it gained recognition and generated quite a few tales within the media, curious gamers flocked to the app retailer in quest of the hit new word-guessing recreation.
Steven mentioned, "My Wordle app has gotten 200,000 downloads prior to now 7 days, and it is not even slowing down but."
Right here’s how a cellular recreation I constructed 5 years in the past abruptly acquired blown up by The New York Occasions, Wall Avenue Journal, and Jimmy Fallon.
— Steven (@StevenCravotta) January 12, 2022
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Immediately, the previous Wordle app was producing income once more. Not content material with sitting again and counting the dollars, Steven determined to achieve out to the developer of the extra widespread Wordle, Josh Wardle, providing to donate the proceeds to charity.
Within the Twitter thread, Steven revealed that he and Wardle has chosen West Oakland's youth literacy programme Enhance to obtain donations.
Josh Wardle tweeted, "Steven Cravotta reached out to me unprompted and requested about donating the proceeds. He is a category act and it's best to comply with him."
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