Word Hunter World is a 2D word game. Players win letters in mini-games — a spin wheel, a slot machine, a memory grid and more — build words from them to score points, and climb a top-10 leaderboard. Version two rebuilt it on Ionic and Firebase and turned a single game mode into many.
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In Word Hunter World players collect letters and turn them into words for points. Letters come from mini-games: roll the wheel and land on a letter, spin the slot machine for keys and prizes, or match cards in a timed memory grid. Words are typed in Word Maker, and every score feeds a top-10 leaderboard players can share.
Version one had a single game mode. The brief for version two was to rebuild the game on Ionic 5 with Firebase behind it and add the mini-games, rewards and rankings that would keep players coming back.
The first version of Word Hunter World gave players one way to play. Once they had learned it, there was little new to come back for, and sessions stayed short.
Version two had to add variety without losing the core idea — every game still had to feed the same letters, words and scores, so the new modes deepen the word game instead of distracting from it.
V2 keeps the word loop at the centre and builds the new games around it, all on one Firebase backend.
Mini-games award letters; players spell words from them in Word Maker to score points — and mine stones for extra rewards and challenges.
Roll the Wheel lands on letters, points, power-ups or exclusive items, and the Slot Machine pays out keys and other prizes.
A timed Memory game of matching words, Hangman to uncover a hidden word, and Tic Tac Toe against the AI — each adding to the player's score and rewards.
The Top 10 board shows the leaders and the player's own position, with one tap to share it on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
Version two moved the game to Ionic 5, with Firebase holding players, scores and rewards — so every mode reads and writes the same progress.
Players have seven ways to play instead of one.
Every mini-game feeds letters and points back into the word game.
Wheels and slots add chance; memory, Hangman and Tic Tac Toe add skill.
A Top 10 board gives players a rank to chase and share.
Stars, gems and rewards carry across every mode.
One Ionic codebase on one Firebase backend runs the whole game.
Have a game that needs more reasons to keep playing?
Word Hunter World V2 is a single Ionic 5 app on Firebase: every mini-game writes to the same player record, so letters, points and rewards follow the player from mode to mode and onto the leaderboard.
Yes, for 2D games like Word Hunter World. V2 runs on Ionic 5 with Firebase behind it — the boards, wheels, slots and keyboards are all app UI, which Ionic handles well across devices from one codebase.
By giving them more than one way to play. Word Hunter World V2 surrounds the core word game with mini-games that award letters and rewards, and a Top 10 leaderboard players can share.
That is what V2 was. We rebuilt Word Hunter World and added Tic Tac Toe, Hangman, a slot machine, a spin wheel and a memory game, all feeding the same score and rewards.
It depends on how many game modes you need, the rewards and leaderboard logic, and the backend. A 2D game with several mini-games and a leaderboard like Word Hunter World is scoped in phases and quoted fixed-price after a free scoping call.
Mini-games, rewards, leaderboards and one backend for all of it.
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