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REVIEW: Jiggle Balls HD

Posted on 29. Aug, 2010 by admin in Featured, Review

Jiggle Balls HD

The smash-hit for iPhone and iPod Touch is now available for the iPad!

Kids will enjoy the crazy sounds and bright colors. Adults will appreciate the real-world physics and playing with all the adjustments. Teachers have used Jiggle Balls to teach their students about physics. Adults have used it to entertain their children while waiting at the doctor’s office.

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I always find Doug Davies apps a little strange. Previous products like Tramp Stamp and Jiggle Balls: Spikes looked like they shouldn’t have been as good as they are actually were. This is in no way a disparaging remark, it’s just those apps and their concepts had the strange ability to grab hold without you even realizing it and then never let go … it was almost a creeping shock to the system.

Jiggle Balls (for the iPhone) was a hit, but it almost went against all known laws: no high scores to achieve, no levels to bust, no real gameplay at all. It was after all just a screen with balls on it that made sounds… and yet it felt like a watching a lion take down a buffalo… without the violence… or the buffalo or lion… you get the analogy… hopefully…

Jiggle Balls HD has taken that very simple iPhone concept and given it a healthy dose of energy. Like its predecessor, there’s no gameplay as such… it goes something like this: Tap the screen to add a ball (or hold your finger to spawn multiple balls); flick the ball or balls across the screen; select ball type, their size, weight, bounciness and stickiness; and the coolest bit, add (or take away) our old friend gravity.

This is the app about nothing… nothing! Yet because it is, its really an app about everything, a total contradiction; mindless but stimulating, silly but serious, for no-one but for everyone. I guess therein lies its genius, its up to you where you take it, what to use it for, its open source gameplay.

Guaranteed: I can’t recall which part of the brain deals with time perception, but I will tell you that Jiggle Balls HD will latch onto it and the world will slowly fade…but you’ll have a big smile on your face when it does.

(On a side note, a particularly good app for kids, either educationally or as a distraction).

Tags: Doug Davies, Funky Visions, HD, iPad

Reviewed by: admin

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