Describes his "two afternoons

“I’m surprised, I launched the game without any plan. Daniel Rodríguez, the developer behind the Spanish version of successful meme game Wordle, explains his motivation to test it in Spanish.

After studying electronic engineering in Bogotá, 30-year-old Daniel moved to Austin, Texas, to work as a software engineer. “I work on data analysis infrastructures for companies, not front-end, but I made the Spanish Wordle in two afternoons using Javascript. I launched it on Thursday, January 6, and over the weekend I polished some missing details “He speaks slowly, like he’s unaware that thousands of people have made opening their creation a habit overnight.

Wordle has many quirks. It looks like a 1990s or early 2000s game, not a 1920s one. It doesn’t require registration, display ads, store user data, or trap users. It only offers one game and one word each morning. Users have nothing to do on that website until the next day if they guess it. Very charming anachronism.

As I made the game, I realised that the original game’s words were predefined. After seeing that five-letter words are rare in Spanish and would frustrate the player, I sat for three hours in front of the list and sorted through it. The remaining 500 words were randomly programmed for 500 days.” There are games ready until May 2023.

However, changes are coming. One word for January 9 was “titan.” Not a coincidence. “I watched YouTube videos about the Sunday 9th premiere of ‘Attack on Titan,’ on Saturday. Since ‘titan’ has five letters, I scheduled it for the same day as the premiere. Some noticed the hint. Later, I’ll do similar ones on certain dates.”

Accessibility is still an issue. Wordle in Spanish is currently inaccessible to blind people and colour-blind people who cannot distinguish square colours. “I’ll polish that next. “I just have to sit down and code each action,” he says.

Due to language differences, he wondered if changing the original game was worth it. After seeing people who know more about these things than me say English is better for this game because of its grammatical structures, I thought it might make more sense in Spanish to make it six-letter or four-letter. I discovered that five-letter words are plentiful and the experience is good.”We requested

Talk to Daniel about monetising the game with in-app purchases for unlimited play, hints, or ads. He denies considering that. I have no plans to monetise and doubt I will. It costs me almost nothing to maintain this, I just made it so people can have fun.” No new game mechanics to access random words without the 24-hour time limit are planned either. “A lot of people have asked me for that, but the game magic is not to do this.”

He keeps defending the old Internet. “Tech companies I work with are quick to talk about monetising, scaling, and hockey stick growth. Today, everyone wants to trap us, sign us up, and show us ads. This is just a coffee-break game. Only that. Today, no company would release a game like this without hooking you.”

1,000 people used Wordle in Spanish on its first day. Second, 20,000. Sunday 9, 52,000 people played, and on the third, 40,000. The majority were Spanish. Argentina and Mexico follow far behind. Countries below 1% follow.

Describes his “two afternoons

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