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Josh Wardle

Welsh game developer

Josh Wardle is a Welshsoftware engineer who developed the viralweb-basedword gameWordle. The New York Times Company acquired Wordle from Wardle in late January [1] Wardle lives in Brooklyn, New York.[2][3]

Early life and education

Wardle is from South Wales, and he was brought up on an organic livestock farm in Llanddewi Rhydderch near Abergavenny.[4][5][6][7]

He attended university at Royal Holloway, University of London and earned a degree in Media Arts.[5] A few years later, he moved to the United States to attend the University of Oregon, where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Digital Art.[7]

He has three brothers, one of whom is documentary filmmaker Tim Wardle, director of the film Three Identical Strangers.[8][9]

Career

Reddit and Pinterest

After completing graduate school, Wardle moved to Oakland, California, and began working as an artist at Reddit in He later became one of Reddit's first product managers and served in this position on the community engineering team.

As a community engineering product manager, he created popular collaborative experimental projects such as The Button in and Place in [2]

He left Reddit for almost two years to work as a software engineer at Pinterest, before returning to Reddit also as a software engineer.[10]

Wordle

Main article: Wordle

In , while working at Reddit, Wardle made a prototype of word game Wordle, a play on his last name.[3] Wardle's initial name for the game was Mr.

Bugs' Wordy Nugz.[11]

In January , he returned to his prototype to create a word game for his partner, Palak Shah.

James wordle biography death The short version is that British-raised New York resident Josh Wardle, who used to work at Reddit and is now a software engineer at Brooklyn art collective Mschf , originally built Wordle last year for his partner , a word puzzle enthusiast, for them to play together. Next story. Because they want to do it? Newsletters See More.

During the COVID pandemic, he and Shah had played many New York Times games including Spelling Bee, and he wanted to make a new word game that they could play together. Shah played a vital role in the game's development before it went public. She reviewed the 12, five-letter words in the English language and narrowed them down to 2, commonly-known words that could be used in the daily puzzle.[3]

From January to June , Wardle and Shah played the game in secret.[12] First, Wardle shared the game with his family members before posting it on his website and making it widely available in October [7] The game had 90 players by 1 November, within a month of Wardle making it public.

One month later the game had , daily players, which rose to two million by the following week.[13]Wordle had no advertisements and Wardle's goal was not to make money. Despite Wordle's success, Wardle did not want operating the game to become his full-time job.[14]

In January , The New York Times Company announced that it had acquired Wordle "for an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures."[1]

MSCHF

From December to May , Wardle worked as a software engineer at Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF.[10][14][15][16]

References

  1. ^ abTracy, Marc (31 January ).

    James wordle biography wikipedia As I wrote in January: An outburst of green, yellow, and gray squares on friends' daily feeds got what little attention I could spare [during an omicron infection]. Perhaps above all that was, yes, an in-depth New York Times feature from early January. And bizarrely, I think, those things have led to growth. As a community engineering product manager, he created popular collaborative experimental projects such as The Button in and Place in

    "The New York Times Buys Wordle". The New York Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved 2 March

  2. ^ ab"Josh Wardle - Artist, Product Manager, Engineer". . Retrieved 5 February
  3. ^ abcVictor, Daniel (3 January ).

    "Wordle Is a Love Story". The New York Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved 5 February

  4. ^Hill, Jonathon (12 January ). "The Welsh software engineer who created Wordle for his partner". WalesOnline.
  5. ^ ab"'Incredible': from Wordle's Welsh beginnings to the New York Times".

    the Guardian. 1 February Retrieved 5 February

  6. ^Bannerman, Lucy; Pavia, Will (2 February ). "$1m inventor has Wordle at his feet". The Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved 6 February
  7. ^ abc"How Wordle's Creator Feels About Selling His Viral Game".

    Time. Retrieved 5 February

  8. ^Carey, Matthew (8 August ). "'Three Identical Strangers' Director Tim Wardle On His Emmy-Nominated Doc, And Status Of Scripted Version: "It's In Development"". Deadline.

    James wordle biography images How big? The game hid in plain sight on the Internet starting in January , but as previous Wordle profiles have clarified, its expansion kicked off when it moved beyond being a game that Wardle and his partner played by themselves. Wardle and his partner were still together, and in lockdown, they began enjoying the NYT's crossword on a daily basis. I introduced it to a few friends in the states, and Andy Baio shared it on his blog.

    Retrieved 6 February

  9. ^Wardle, Tim (3 January ). "ttwardle Fun seeing my brother's #Wordle game blow up. Ironically, he decided NOT to do all the things you're supposed to do to make a viral hit- like allowing people to play for hours or putting a hyperlink in the sharing function.

    It works because it's atypical".

    James wordle biography wife: The paper focused on the story of Wardle creating Wordle as a gift for his partner. So because I just built it for my partner and me, I built it as simply as possible. Right now, we're more connected than ever, but people still want for connection. One New Zealand player began sharing Wordle results as hand-crafted emoji grids of gray, yellow, and green squares—which, Wardle noticed, cleverly told a Wordle solution's story without spoiling its solution.

    Twitter. Retrieved 6 February

  10. ^ ab"Josh Wardle". LinkedIn.
  11. ^Peters, Jay (26 June ). "You will never guess Wordle's terrible, hilarious original name". The Verge.

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  15. ^Statt, Nick. "GDC Wordle creator Josh Wardle on his game's success". Protocol. Retrieved 21 January
  16. ^"Infographic: Wordle: Much Ado About Nothing?". Statista Infographics.

    James wordle biography The Times has previously said that it intends to become the essential subscription for every English-speaking person engaged with world events. The introduction to the outside world came when Wardle sent the game to his in-laws, who quickly embraced the game as part of their family's WhatsApp group chat. Download as PDF Printable version. After completing graduate school, Wardle moved to Oakland, California , and began working as an artist at Reddit in

    24 January Retrieved 6 February

  17. ^ ab"A conversation with Josh Wardle, creator of viral hit Wordle". TechCrunch. 12 January Retrieved 5 February
  18. ^Pietsch, Bryan (28 March ). "Nike Sues Over Unauthorized 'Satan Shoes'". The New York Times.

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