{"id":134,"date":"2013-07-17T20:34:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.knicket.com\/magazine\/?p=134"},"modified":"2013-11-28T21:30:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T21:30:37","slug":"my-new-favorite-ios-game-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/en.knicket.com\/magazine\/my-new-favorite-ios-game-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"OUR NEW FAVORITE IOS GAME: Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>How can a few dots make someone so happy? Betaworks<\/a> new game hit the charts (1 mil downloads in the first week<\/a>) for a reason: It’s simple, colourful, friendly, has great sounds and great physics. It’s the sophisticated version of bejeweled. So to all fathers and hipsters: This your game. Lines of dots have to be connected, its best to make a square and you have one minute to collect as many dots as possible. After playing it for \u00a0a week my highscore is 318, but it seems I am doing something wrong when I look at other highscores like the one of Matt Burns of Techcrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway it’s great fun and another great thing is: You get hours and hours of gameplay value for …nothing. People can play that game almost infintitely, in-app-purchases are almost not necessary. If you pay you get \u00a0a few functions that are helpful, but which can also be bought with the dots you are gathering through gaming. Speaking for myself I play faster on the iPad, the phone version is just too small too be quick, or maybe it’s my fingers;)<\/p>\n

I also have to admit this game shows great User Interface Design. It has a slight retro touch in terms of fonts and colours in a flat design, just as webbies like it nowadays. So I guess it will get fans throughout all scenes and genders. It’s good for kids, adults and maybe even musicians: The chords being played sound to me like minor Jazz guitar chords, so warm and fuzzy that even listening to that drags you further into the game. Once you make a square of dots<\/a>, a little bit of reverb is added to the chord and however it feels like a great reward to player.<\/p>\n

I never throught that taking this kind of game to a next level could lead to something addictive, which dots is definitely for me.<\/p>\n

KNICKET SAYS: Maybe the best iOS game in 2013 so far. 10\/10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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