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Bonnie’s Bookstore Review

Phil Steinmeyer runs his own game software company. I followed his blog because he seems to be running a successful microISV, something I’ve been trying to do. I took Phil Steinmeyer up on his offer for a free copy of Bonnie’s Bookstore. In return, I agreed to write about it, so here goes…

Bonnie’s Bookstore is in the “casual game” genre, a genre that is receiving a lot of attention these days due to the successes of games like Bejeweled and Snood. In Bonnie’s Bookstore, you are presented with tiles of letters and you eliminate tiles by spelling words with them. It offers a quick break and can be quite addicting. I introduced the game to my wife just 45 minutes ago, and she’s still at it.

There’s also some sort of storyline to the game, but to be honest, I don’t know what it is because I skipped all that and went straight to the action. And sometimes, it accepts words I don’t think are words, like “NAE”, and other times, it doesn’t accept words I think it should, like “YOYO”. I guess it just depends on the dictionary the game uses. Nonetheless, I find the actual gameplay to be fun, entertaining and a good alternative to Minesweeper when you want a different sort of diversion.