Thursday, August 4, 2011

UPDATE: Amazon's Free App of the Day - A Game With Balls

written by: Nick Kosmides


You may be thinking that I didn't put the app title in the blog post title above but I did.  Today's free app is called A Game With Balls.  That's not just an accurate description of the gameplay but the actual title.

Very sharp graphics with unique gameplay sort of reminded me of Bust-A-Move.  The biggest difference is that this game is not a puzzle game as much it is a game of survival.  Shoot small or big balls out of your ball shaped cannon at various sized squares and circles that are falling down toward the bottom of the screen.  The object is to use your balls to redirect the falling objects so they do not collide with your cannon positioned at the bottom center of the screen.

This game gets high marks from me for a beautifully simply UI, sharp graphics, original game design and Open Feint.  Achievements and leaderboards are fully supported with the use of Open Feint, the cross platform social api that all games should be using.  Well, all good games at least.

Please go download this game and let me know how it does with you.

UPDATE: While conducting this review I had the game soaking on the title screen.  Just before I went into Open Feint and looked at the achievements before returning to said Title screen.  It soaked for approximately five minutes and then force closed.  I had to pull the battery to restart my phone.  NOT GOOD.

A Game With Balls - $2.99 FREE