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Developer:
Andrew Korth
Age rating: 4+
Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later.
Crayon BallCurrent Version: 1.6
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Current Features:
• New themes in multiple artistic styles
• Color-blind friendly
• Special balls featuring explosions, wild cards, jump balls and more!
• Realistic physics- balls tumble and roll as they fall
• Accelerometer control- control where the balls fall by tilting your phone
• Hand drawn crayon graphics
• Easy to learn addictive gameplay
What is Crayon Ball?
Crayon Ball is a physics based color matching puzzle game. The concept is similar to Bejeweled or Snood (but with realistic physics!).
When a group of 4 colored balls touch, they will pop and an avalanche of new balls will tumble in to take their place. Quickly and strategically tap out balls to set up your next match and add to an ever growing combo by consecutively creating matches. But be wary brave Crayon Baller... for every tap brings you a little bit close to game over. With every tap the DANGER BAR! at the bottom of the screen will fill up. But what is a brave Crayon Baller to do? Why, of course there is only one solution; match colors and score huge points. With every match you make the DANGER BAR! will drop a little. Can you be the greatest Crayon Baller in history? That is doubtful, because my grandfather Warren Von Crayonballbustington III was that greatest Crayon Ball player to ever live... but maybe... just maybe with enough practice... one day... you might be the very best.
What are magical animals saying about Crayon Ball?
"Crayon Ball is the friendliest friend that I have ever had, and I do not use this term lightly, because I have had over 1 million friends visit me in imagination land" -- Zebracorn, the magical zebracorn.
"NOM NOM NOM CRRAYONZ BALL AM DELICIOUS!! RAAAUAUUURRRGHHHH!!!1 iPHONE IS ALSO DELICIOUS!! IT TASTES LIKE WALL SOCKET!" -- Reptilladon, the fire breathing dinosaur.
Crayon Ball Review
Game is fun and colorful, but ultimately—and unfortunately—repetitive
Crayon Ball—a $3 iPhone game from Howling Moon Software—looks great, and it’s a snap to learn. While it’s fun to play, it’s also a bit repetitive. I might open the game up if I’m waiting on a Disney World-esque line, but only after I’ve played some more engaging time-wasters first.
Connect Four: To succeed at Crayon Ball, you must get at least four balls of the same color to touch.
The first thing you’ll notice is Crayon Ball’s unique visual aesthetic. The art appears entirely hand-drawn, and you can even select from several different themes, like crayon, pencil, or Van Gogh. The game looks cute, and it sounds cute, too.
When you start to play, the screen is filled with colored balls. You must get at least four balls of the same color to touch to make them disappear. And when they do, another outpouring of balls will fall in to take their place. To group like-colored balls, you have two options: You can turn your iPhone or iPod touch from side to side to let the accelerometer do its thing, or you can tap on individual balls to make them disappear. Since all the balls respect gravity, they’ll fall down and rearrange themselves as you zap some away. Each time you tap a ball to make it disappear, though, your “Damage Bar” will increase. Making matches brings it down again. But tap too many times, and your Damage Bar will fill up—and the game will end.
Crayon Ball is fun, to a point. Ultimately—and unfortunately—the game is very repetitive and doesn’t offer up new challenges as you play. It holds my interest for a game at a time on occasion, but not much more than that.
Crayon Ball is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update.
[Macworld.com contributor Lex Friedman is having a ball on his blog.]
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