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uk sky - TV Scrabble on Challenge? |
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This enhanced TV game show, broadcast by "Challenge?" on the Sky Digital platform and developed by TwoWayTV presents a number of challenges...
How do you enhance a TV game show with interactivity without detracting from the programme? How do you replicate the gameplay of the board game "Scrabble" in the interactive TV world?
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Even more challenging is how do you manage bandwidth issues when the application needs to check words in a split second that the viewer could be selecting from hundreds or even thousands of words in the English dictionary! Indeed this application would seem to handle all these elements extremely well.
Word entry is as simple as it can be and it will be most interesting to see statistics on what percentage of viewers choose to play along with this show as soon at they become available. |