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37: Designing Around Language with Zach Gage

The Secret Lives of Games

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How to Build a Word List

The system works by using a web server that combines custom searches and engrams. It's probably like 85 to 90% accurate but it skews towards allowing things so hopefully there are way less words that are not real that it or that are real that it rejects then not real words that it lets in. The game can decide if people find a word that's not in the dictionary they can go to a web server of do this sort of search and render an opinion about whether it's a real word you don't get to use right away. And I was I was measuring you about this today with a bunch of questions so yeah very curious about this this feature. Yeah, so I did not

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