I hope viewers enjoy discovering the tools within the typography.” Though Gee had other concepts for his design involving straight type, he says, “The idea of using tools as typographic forms was just too much fun to resist. “Letterpress has the extraordinary ability to make a lasting impression by enabling people to appreciate the artist’s craft in both a visual and tactile manner.” “These amazing tools and techniques, which have survived for centuries, connect art and craft, designer and printer, and paper and impression,” Gee explains. Inspired by the letterpress process, Gee transforms the craft’s iconic tools into typographic forms that make the viewer want to explore each letter. The title of Gee’s print couldn’t be any more representative of his finished piece. But there is a human one, as Loren Brichter suggests: “play with friends you trust not to cheat.For the newly released Edition 13, otherwise known as “The Beauty of Letterpress: The Art of Making an Impression ,” designer Earl Gee, partner and creative director of Gee + Chung Design, pays homage to the centuries-old letterpress process – with a modern twist and a Russian Constructivist aesthetic.Īs with all prints designed and produced for The Beauty of Letterpress by Neenah, Gee’s print is available for purchase - it’s only $5! - with all proceeds going directly to the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. There isn’t really a good solution for these kinds of cheats, at least from a technical perspective, either for creators or players. If this cheat allows people to have fun with the game, and if it’s used responsibly, what harm is there? However, that game is primarily a singleplayer experience, and Letterpress is meant for fun with other players, though there’s no global leaderboard for those mastering the game. And because this is a multiplayer game, there doesn’t seem to be the kind of “victimless crime” aspect and moral imperative that some players of the recent My Little Pony game have claimed as why they use a hack that reduces or eliminates the cost for expensive items in the game. While there will be some that use this as a fun tool, there will be those who use it to try and win, and such a tool seems difficult to conquer. Plus it’s a lot of fun to see an entirely blue board.” ![]() We’re hoping that the app can help you develop strategy skills and better understand how to win. They say that “Lettercheat is meant to be a companion app to the Letterpress game. The Lettercheat creators did not respond to a direct email as of press time, but did share their reasoning on their website and in a blog post. Maybe it’s a by-product of the competitive primordial brain overwhelming the reason why you’re competing in the first place (to have fun).” But it’s an inherent human problem, you can solve it technically or legally - capitalism promises that where there’s a want there’s a product. Loren Brichter, creator of Letterpress, doesn’t know. Even the avatar carries this theme.īut why? Why intentionally release an app that is designed to break a competitive multiplayer game like this? But the developers, who ask only for $0.99 after getting to try 2 games of cheating (piggybacking off of Letterpress’ business model), also promise something else: the ability to “Smurf” a game board by turning it all blue in the game’s default theme. It can even find, when available, moves that will end the game instantaneously. Lettercheat doesn’t do anything as malicious as hijacking a game’s rules, but it does use an impressive technological trick for unscrupulous purposes: it recognizes the game board based on a screenshot, and analyzes the letters on the board to find the best words to be played. ![]() And one App Store app for iOS original word game Letterpress makes cheating almost too easy. One Words With Friends hack for jailbroken devices actually hijacked the game to make any word playable. ![]() The cheats are quickly evolving beyond just looking up Scrabble words online, though: they’re starting to exploit this sufficiently advanced technology that we carry around in our pockets. So while Scrabble clones like Words With Friends have allowed for a cottage industry of cheating apps to rise up, to turn the tide in the favor of those who wish to win by any means necessary. ![]() After all, it’s a lot easier to cheat at something when the opponent can be physically far away, or someone completely unknown. The modern era of asynchronous multiplayer has led to not only people playing more word games, but more people flagrantly cheating at them.
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