Bubble Bang out on iPhone
by Martin Schultz · 11/17/2008 (12:52 am) · 4 comments
After having created 5 little applications for the iPhone I just released now my first game on the iPhone called Bubble Bang.
YouTube Video
Bubble Bang (iTunes link) is an ultra addictive match-2 bubble popping game. Tap 2 or more bubbles of the same color that touch each other to let them explode. The longer the strings of bubbles gets, the more points you receive. But watch out - for each exploding string of bubbles a bunch of new bubbles will fall down and quickly fill up the stack. Additionally every few seconds so-called wondercubes drop onto the stack with a surprise inside if you tap the wondercube.
Quite simple game mechanics but makes the game addictive to play. Bubble Bang uses the NVidia PhysX engine for a real physics simulation of the bubbles. The game also makes use of the iPhone accelerometer. If you want to re-sort the stack of bubbles, simply shake the iPhone a bit to let the container get shaked and the bubbles get re-sorted.
Bubble Bang has 4 different difficulty game modes to play. Starting with the easy game mode for the beginner over to normal and hard up to the ultra game mode for the absolute Bubble Bang experts. The game features also an internet highscore list separate for each game mode and each month of the year.
The game was already existing as web game, but porting the game to the phone took a few days only tweaking things here and there and get the maximum performance out of the phone. Was definately worth the adventure optimizing for a such a nice little device.
If you like these kind of bubble popping games, give it a try! It's only 0.99 US$ in the app store.
Edit: Forgot: If you want to try the web version, go here and play Bubble Bang in the browser!
Enjoy!
Martin :-)
YouTube Video
Bubble Bang (iTunes link) is an ultra addictive match-2 bubble popping game. Tap 2 or more bubbles of the same color that touch each other to let them explode. The longer the strings of bubbles gets, the more points you receive. But watch out - for each exploding string of bubbles a bunch of new bubbles will fall down and quickly fill up the stack. Additionally every few seconds so-called wondercubes drop onto the stack with a surprise inside if you tap the wondercube.
Quite simple game mechanics but makes the game addictive to play. Bubble Bang uses the NVidia PhysX engine for a real physics simulation of the bubbles. The game also makes use of the iPhone accelerometer. If you want to re-sort the stack of bubbles, simply shake the iPhone a bit to let the container get shaked and the bubbles get re-sorted.
Bubble Bang has 4 different difficulty game modes to play. Starting with the easy game mode for the beginner over to normal and hard up to the ultra game mode for the absolute Bubble Bang experts. The game features also an internet highscore list separate for each game mode and each month of the year.
The game was already existing as web game, but porting the game to the phone took a few days only tweaking things here and there and get the maximum performance out of the phone. Was definately worth the adventure optimizing for a such a nice little device.
If you like these kind of bubble popping games, give it a try! It's only 0.99 US$ in the app store.
Edit: Forgot: If you want to try the web version, go here and play Bubble Bang in the browser!
Enjoy!
Martin :-)
Employee Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
Did you roll your own solution for this game, or did you build off previous applications? I'm curious to see how modular custom iPhone code can be.