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## About

Text Express: Word Adventure is a mobile free-to-play game released to the public in September 2022.

This award-winning, genre-defining English word-game, will take you on an epic journey filled with a moving story and original characters set in a fantasy world, brought to life by gorgeous detailed illustrations and 3D animated cinematic cutscenes.

The gameplay combines over 3500 levels of crossword search puzzles, varied with interactive stories and 14 different mini games, such as encountering fairytale creatures, picking mythical plants, and more, all of which award the player with intriguing collectables.

Along the way, experience majestic landmarks in steampunk cities and ancient ruins, while solving compelling narrative-driven mysteries, unlocking the secrets of Tilly's parents and discovering her fated destiny. Unlike other games which only have a single path to follow, players can instead enjoy the freedom of roaming the map.

There is also a customisation feature, which allows the player to creatively change the aesthetic appearance of the focal train in the game with no limitations on combinations of interchangeable options, of which there are nearly 100 choices. This directly impacts how the train looks in the movies. Likewise, there are 4 customizable characters, with over 85+ outfits to collect and dress them up in. These outfits change the way the characters look in the story movies, the story character’s aesthetic is up to the player to decide.

Text Express doesn’t have any time limits or penalties for errors. Rather than punish the player for making a mistake, the game gives more rewards as the player achieves winning streaks. With no energy system, it is easy to relax and binge the game for as long as you desire or simply play casually.

There is an optional dictionary feature which tracks the correct words that are input by the player and tapping the words reveals their definitions to allow the player to expand their English vocabulary if they choose to.

Text Express is an English word game that is free-to-play, although some items can be optionally purchased for real money. Purchases are not required to progress the story. The game does not become so difficult that levels are impossible to complete without purchases, either. Only aesthetic items are locked behind a paywall. The remainder of the content can be accessed for free through diligent gameplay. The game includes optional advertisements that can be watched, if the player chooses to do so, in exchange for in-game items such as coins or to double rewards.

### Text Express Dev Team

Text Express is made by a small team with big dreams!
Text Express is created by Story Giant Games, a small indie game studio expertised in combining casual gameplay and strong storytelling, and published by GameHouse Original Stories, a game developer and publisher focused on bringing fun and meaningful gaming experiences to women around the world. Story Giant is a game studio that stands for great emotional storytelling in games. They pride themselves in creating characters you want to spend time with and worlds you want to live in.

💕 Credits:

* Story Giant Games
* Cecilia Speer -  Producer
* Tj'ièn Twijnstra - Game Director
* Daan Boon - Art Engineer
* Roel Verbroekken - Programmer
* Sebastiaan van Waardenberg - Studio Director/Writer
* Ruud Havenith - Art Director
* Luc Bloom -  Programmer
* Jonathan van den Wijngaarden - Music and Sound Effects Composer
* Adam Gubman - Music
* Sakari Games
* Pepijn Rijnders - Founder & Producer
* Matthias Vandeurzen - 3D Artist
* Keywords Studios
* Michał Newiak - QA Tester
* Karolina Zygan - QA Tester
* Tamara Antoniuk - Dybala - QA Tester

## Trivia

* The official Game House page for their original "Text Express" game can be found here.
* Story Giant Games, while using the former name "Blue Giraffe Games" and in association with Snuggford Stories, made a PC game, released on the 19th of December 2003, that was also called "Text Express."
* Story Giant is formed by people who worked on the successful time management series Delicious, Heart’s Medicine and Criminal Minds.
* The game is made in the Netherlands and part of the game's development team are Dutch.
* "Text Express: Word Adventure" has won the award for "Best Puzzle Game of 2022" from Pocket Gamer.
* Text Express had a featured booth at gamescom in 2022. Gamescom is located in Deutz-Mülheimer Str. 109, 51063 Köln, Germany.
* "Text Express: Word Adventure" was nominated for Game of the Year at Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2023.

## Archival Gallery

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As of version v30.0.0(302), Finn has been replaced with Kaden.

### Additional Informational Imagery

"Text Express: Word Adventure" has won the award for "Best Puzzle Game of 2022" from Pocket Gamer.The first survey promotional image, released in July 2023.The original team had only 9 people.Text Express 2003 Game
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## Fan Content Policy

Quote from Text Express: Word Adventure Support:

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This policy governs your use of GameHouse BV ("GameHouse") copyrights and trademarks from our Delicious Emily, Fabulous Angela, Heart's Medicine and other games. We will not give warnings for violations of this Policy.

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