Sunday, November 23, 2008

Frozen Bubble: Twisted!

Frozen copy

Grab your accelerometer enabled Nokia and chuck away the ice-cream cones boy, Frozen Bubble has just been brought into the 21st century! Samir and his gang are at it again and this time they've created something that's a cross between past and present.

We all know this classic arcade game, how it took over our lives and made us mindlessly shoot coloured balls before... Now it's back, and you can sure as heck count on this game to distract you from your daily routines, entertain you while your girlfriend's doing her shopping, keep you awake at night when you know there's a big test tomorrow..y'know, the usual. ;D

Alright, jokes aside, i haven't tried this version the game yet but I'm not a big fan of accelerometer games. Their always too fiddly to handle, and have limited gameplay. Usually the player only gets to control the direction of the character in accelerometer games. Frozen Bubble is a game that requires precision and i can already imagine how annoying it will be to tilt my phone left and right just to get the right angle, while the people around me think i've gone crazy checking for scratches on my N95.

Nevertheless i am very glad to see Samir and his crew being active again in software development for Symbian s60 devices and he countinues on his line of creativity using the accelerometer and other aspects of mobile phones to make even the simplest application or game seem refreshing again, i salute you, Samir!

Be sure to try the game out for yourself at AikonLab.com, it's free.

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