Let the Games Begin! Creator Has Put the Video Game "Wordtrotter" Up for Adoption

Seattle, WA, April 24, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Starting on Friday, April 13th, 2012, people all over the world were able to become a foster parent of the video game WordTrotter with a gift of only $7. Game creator Gil De Palma officially put his game up for adoption in three crowd funding sites—IndieGoGo, Rockethub and GoFundMe. It is the final phase of two arduous years of development and the beginning of world wide shared parenthood for what has been dubbed “World’s Coolest Word Game.”

“I’m not giving up ownership of WordTrotter,” De Palma declared. “Becoming a foster parent to WordTrotter is like being part of an extended family. I’m sharing the dream, the challenges and the excitement of sending a video game out into the world of tablet PC, mobile and social gaming…and the rewards that come with it.” He said the unique thing about WordTrotter adoption is that foster parents get to own one duplicate or clone of the game for every adoption dollar given. Priced at $7 each, foster parents can keep them forever, sell them, or share them with their friends.

De Palma created WordTrotter to be like the classic video game Pacman, mobile game Snake and online word game Text Twist rolled into one, yet it lives in its own unique gaming world where words come alive. If you can guide one of the three surviving word bugs of the Wordtrotter Race in a quest to catch mystical alphabet bugs and form the Anti-Spell, a secret magical word that will save the world from being destroyed by the curse of the evil word witch Grimmar, you can play the game.

A writer/artist/filmmaker and CEO of video game company Palmagick Entertainment, De Palma invested in WordTrotter’s game development and ported it as a social game on Facebook. But shortly, when he lost his project partners due to health and pressing business concerns in another industry, he also lost the budget to continue operation.

“With a heavy heart, I took WordTrotter off Facebook,” he said. “Man, it felt like removing a child’s life-support system because of unaffordable hospital bills.”

Lack of funding has also delayed development of WordTrotter tablet PC and mobile games. “But quitting is not an option,” he said.

So he came up with the idea of placing what he fondly calls his “creative child” up for adoption. For thirty days, April 8th through May 7th, people can choose the kind of foster parenthood and the rewards they want at the following sites:

IndieGoGo http://www.indiegogo.com/adoptwordtrotter asking people there to be Foster Parents for WordTrotter Tablet PC Games

Rockethub http://www.rockethub.com/projects/6816-adopt-the-world-s-coolest-word-game requesting funders onsite to be Foster Parents for WordTrotter Mobile Games

GoFundMe http://www.gofundme.com/adoptwordtrotter appealing to folks to be Foster Parents for WordTrotter Facebook Game

“Giving WordTrotter a new lease on life will only cost foster parents seven dollars,” De Palma said, “but the rewards will be tremendous. Also part of my fund raising for this WordTrotter project is devoted to helping 8,000 poor children in Metro Manila go to school and make better lives for themselves. Potential funders can see my efforts to help here. http://www.play4scholars.com/“

For more information, please contact Gil De Palma at: wordtrotter@gmail.com