I’ve been dealing with a lot of bugs in Wordabble as we’ve been beta testing the next release. Even after I published the release (yesterday) a few minor bugs have been discovered. That can be terribly frustrating… so when I stumbled across this video today it really put a smile on my face. A user of the new Tiger Woods PGA game had discovered a scenario where you could get Tiger to walk on water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ1st1Vw2kY

EA put together a brilliant response. It’s not just the “BLAH, we had a bug, so what” response that all developers love to give… they’ve turned it into a viral marketing spot. They can’t release an update to the game to fix this kind of thing, so their bug fix is to actually make Tiger Woods walk on water.

Absolutely brilliant!

In case you haven’t heard me talking about it, the game is called Wordabble. It’s a tile-based word search game. You’re presented with a 5×5 grid of letters. You tap connecting letters to form words. Each letter has a point value and longer words are given a point multiplier.

Now that the game is in a “release” state — meaning it includes most of the must-have features, it’s easy to start to think of what to include in a future release. But, I think I’ll wait to see if there’s really any demand for an update.

I’ve contacted a lot of friends that have iPhones and made them swear to buy it… you know who you are I’ll be calling you the moment it’s for sale.

If you’re reading this and you have an iPhone or iPod Touch and I haven’t contacted you — let me know. I’d love to get your opinion on the game when it’s been released.