![]() ![]() It’s simple, yes, but I had a lot of fun with it, and I’ll definitely be playing more of it in the next few days. This is pretty much all you need to know to get started playing Squaree. Match four pieces and you get a X2 piece remaining, and if you match 5, you get a piece that, when matched, removes all solid pieces of that color from the gameboard. Get three of the same color to match, and two of them disappear, but the third turns into a “locked” piece. Tapping a piece causes un-gray, and for it to fall all the way to the bottom of the board (or until it hits another solid piece). There is a board with a whole bunch of grayed out pieces. It’s match-3, definitely, but the way you get your squares is pretty unique. But I soon grew tired of scanning through all the crap in that AppShopper search, and Squaree was either the first or second app I opened up to check out. Squaree doesn’t really look like much, and (as is common when I go app shopping) at first I didn’t even play it, just downloaded it to check out later. That got me thinking about what other free Game Center games there might be out there, so I searched App Shopper for “game center”, and sorted by price. I wasn’t about to shell out $3 for another Match-3 game though, (especially when I just played a perfectly decent one for free). So then I went looking to see if there were other Match-3 games with Game Center, and I found Jewel Craft in the featured list. Maybe I’ll do that some other time and actually go through all the games listed to see which have which features. I suppose now that I’ve done that, I should really add another column for OpenFeint. I made a note to myself to add GeoBlocks to my spreadsheet listing Match-3 games for the iPhone, and I actually went one step further than that, and added a column indicating whether the game has Game Center integration. In fact, that’s one of the only really interesting aspects of the game… to score really big, you actually want to try NOT to progress, so you can rack up points before the timer (white line at the bottom of the screen) gets going so fast that you don’t have time to think before you match. It’s a pretty standard match-3, with level progression based on the number of matches you’ve gotten in all the colors. I played GeoBlocks for quite a while, trying to get the next achievement. I’m going to talk about that, and then I’ll also talk about the second match-3 game I played with Game Center integration, Squaree, and I will actually go so far as to say that Squaree is my new favorite Match-3 game! As of this writing, both GeoBlocks and Squaree are FREE in the app store, so get ’em while they’re hot. While you get 100 animated clips and a secret ending, you don’t really have to work so hard for it and just hope that your luck would be good against its random GIF generator.Game Center games are starting to pour in, and today I stumbled onto the (true**) first Match-3 game I’d seen, (although I don’t think it was the first one on there), called GeoBlocks. ![]() However, it doesn’t have much variety in terms of gameplay and settings. Doesn’t require player skillĪll in all, Memochi - Dust has enough story content to intrigue players interested in that. It’s more of a one-off experience for those eager for a slideshow story. The only other button you press is the Off switch, which automatically shuts the game down. There are no configuration settings due to how barren and simple its gameplay is-although you can launch the other executable file in its folder to open advanced graphic settings. However, aside from this, there’s nothing else to the game. The only real challenge here is trying to unlock the secret memory and trying to find the clues to it by going through all 100 GIFs. You can just check out Dust’s memories at your leisure, as every press of the red button will just randomly showcase one until you press it again. Unlike most games, there’s no actual end goal or victory condition here. These memories encompass his entire life, from childhood to retirement, and playing the game simply offers you a chance to watch them all. His “Memochi”-or rather, his collection of memories-is exactly 100 animated memories in the form of looping GIFs with accompanying audio. Memochi - Dust introduces you to Dust, a strangely-shaped humanoid creature who lives a fairly modern life outside of your control. ![]()
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