For the longest time, my favorite iPhone game app was Gemmed! [appstore link] by Wasted Pixel. You can play that game for 15 seconds or 5 hours due to the ability to leave and comeback at “any” time. It’s a simple match-3 game, but with a twist of monsters in the game grid eating gems to move toward their color’s exit. There some great power-ups that appear when you match enough of a specific color, etc… Really fun and not overly expensive for $1.99.
Now there is a new iPhone game I found called GloBall [appstore link]. It’s kind of a BreakOut or Arkanoid game without the paddle. You just tilt the iPhone around to move the ball into boxes in the playfield to gain points. There are bonus blocks to increase your score potential and odd little creature like things that threaten your glowing ball.
The graphics are really wonderful and very pleasant on the eye. Controlling the glowing ball is pretty easy and is not nearly as frustrating as other games I have played that are like this one.
Another very interesting aspect to the game is it’s high score board. They take your iPhone’s location and compare your score to others in it’s database. It then tells you your overall rank. It also tells you that you have the best score within a specific distance. So far, I haven’t broken over a mile and my current high score is broken just over 1,000 feet away.
If you look at individual levels, you can see the same info for that specific level instead of your total points. I really like this and love the sphere of the Earth with all the blue dots representing other players. I wonder if those are “active” players vrs. ones that have high scores in their database.
This game is currently going for $0.99 as in “introductory” price. So if you are even remotely interested in the game, I suggest downloading the free version to check it out then, buying the full version before the “introductory” price goes away.
Update: There is a small downside to the game. the 43 levels it has goes very fast. I finished all the levels in about 1 1/2 hours. It’s certainly replayable, and there are high scores to beat, but it would be nice to have more levels.
Dave M.
