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You might have seen my post about the release of two new Grinch games for the iPhone/iPod touch – but how do they play? Well, let me enlighten you about the first one, ‘Grinchmas’!
Game type 1: snowballing fun at night!
There are two variants of one game in Grinchmas – you can be a nice Grinch, or a nasty one. If you are nice, you have to throw coloured presents, to match the colour of the houses nearby – if you are nasty then you just end up pelting noisy houses with snowballs, during the night! That’s basically it on the explanation front – this isn’t meant to take up 6 months of your life with intricate storylines, it’s just a good, quick, blast of fun – ‘casual gaming’, as I would call it.
Game type 2: hit the right house with coloured present!
The mechanism for throwing and aiming is the direction and speed of your swipe across screen – and actually this adds a nice degree of difficulty to the game. I found with snowballing, that repeated fast swiping gives you a snowball machine gun which works well (!), but landing the right colour of present on the appropriate houses is a lot harder. As I said, a nice grading of difficulty.
Overall, I’d say if you are in the market for some seasonal casual gaming that’s good fun – and you like the Grinch – you probably can’t go far wrong with this!
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About The Author
Ben Robinson
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
