Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint

[gravy]

Lots of nice IoS games out there right now (including the Llamasoft releases) and this one is really nice too IMHO

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/magnetic ... 52950?mt=8

By the fabulous Pickford brothers

Kind of interesting as they've put a lot of work in this and released the base game for free with in game purchases. Will be very interested to understand how it does.

Some intro stuff to the game here:

http://www.zee-3.com/magneticbilliards/

[skweek]

I've been waiting for this to come out for a while, seen a few trailers and stuff for it and it looked lovely.

Just been playing it this morning and it's really charming, nice sound effects and the art style is spot on.

I'll be buying something from the in-game shop once I can, I think free + pay for addons is a great idea for app store stuff.

[sack]

it looks simple but a lot of fun, and like one of those ideas you look at and think 'I should've thought of that one - bollocks!'

Only they did and I didn't, so fair play to them

[nyarla]

Yeah! This is great. I love the rules.
Finally just got grade S on level 1.
980 points on lv17 and only grade C D:

[edit: also, love all the Pickford-bros-appear-and-give-thumbs-up stuff ]

[sack]

also, I'm quite impressed that as games seem to be running increasingly less smoothly on my ageing iPhone 3G this runs silky smooth and looks lovely

[RiK]

Ooh it's really rather nice isn't it.. Lovely presentation and plays smooth as silk.

Can definitely see this getting some love this weekend

[RiK]

Maaaaaaaaahvelous!

[JPickford]

Maaaaaaaaahvelous!

That voice sample is a barman in our local pub. It's his catchphrase and we asked if we could put it in the game.

Cheers for the nice words everyone. Really chuffed people seem to be liking the game. Hopefully Apple will switch on the in-app-purchases at some point.

[matt]

Magnetic Billiards is awesome and shows it's possible to take a quirky concept and make it approachable, easy to understand, obvious to use, nice to look at, fun to play and importantly easy for people to enthuse about. I'm sure the developers are going to have great success with it. Well done.

[RiK]

That voice sample is a barman in our local pub. It's his catchphrase and we asked if we could put it in the game.

Ace. You've done a cracking job John, I'm really enjoying it so far

[matt]

Blimey! I've just got 14860 on level 11.

Really getting the hang of this now. Fantastically deep scoring mechanism.

[The Caffeine Kid]

Hurrah, it took a few attempts but I've managed to get S rank on all 20 stages now. Really enjoyable game. Fantastic work guys.

[gribbles]

Hurrah, it took a few attempts but I've managed to get S rank on all 20 stages now. Really enjoyable game. Fantastic work guys.

Yup, me too. Alternating between this and Deflex is lovely...

[Jedburgh]

I'M THE BEST.

(Except for the one chap ahead of me on the scoreboard who's clearly some sort of freak.)

[matt]

Nicely done Jedburgh

Finding this much more difficult on my iPhone than on my iPad.