Puzzle Arcade Lite - A word or two about it..

Puzzle Arcade Lite should be available very soon - as soon as the friends at Apple approve it :)

In the meantime, I would like to explain the whys and the hows of this new game.

The first thing to mention it's that this a indy game that has been in development for a few months. That doesn't mean that the quality is sub-par, on the contrary, being and indy game we had the freedom to direct all the efforts to create an interesting and original playing experience and not to create something very attractive but hollow. It's the kind of game that I would have wanted to play in the arcades, a fast paced game but a brain teaser as well.

So you get the best of the two worlds, a puzzle game that it's easy to play, different to the average tetris-beweled.. puzzle games that you can find in the AppStore but also a game that you can play as an arcade game.

The game it's best played in short bursts of 5 minutes or less - in that time you can complete a couple of levels, pause the game and come back later.

The mechanic of the game it's very simple, you get a picture - showed in the right part of the screen as clue and you need to produce the same picture using different pieces before the timer goes out.

To get a piece just hit twice over the board - left part - and a random piece will fall from the "sky". When it touches the board you can move it horizontally or vertically - using drag and drop. Note that you can not go over other pieces or objects or any other obstacle. If the piece falls in the green recycle bin on the right, the piece will be back to "the sky" and you will be penalised with 5 seconds. Sometimes this can play in your advantage to keep a piece out of your way. Use it wisely.

Once all the pieces are on the board and resembles exactly the clue, you will win!. That´s the basic mechanic of the game, and very close to the Unplugged Game Mode that you will find in the game, plus a number of different objects that will fall to the board. The objects also work as obstacles, so it's a good idea to get rid of them - just hit them until they are destroyed. The good think about it it's that you would get different bonuses doing that: points, time, lives...

I will talk about the arcade part of the game in the next post.