New S60 Game: Frozen Bubble - Twisted! Make Use Of The Accelerometer

One of my favorite free S60 games has just been updated thanks to one of the top Symbian S60 developers - Samir. The popular game Frozen Bubble has been re-created using the same great gameplay, only now the frozen bubble launcher direction is controlled by the accelerometer of the Nokia N82.

What is Frozen Bubble?

Frozen Bubble is a popular free puzzle game, ported to almost all platform. User controls a small canon, shooting bubbles and tries to hit other bubbles so to create groups of 3 or more bubbles of the same color. Whenever this is accomplished these bubbles go away. The purpose of the game is to eliminate all bubbles from stage.

Some may say they like the original S60 version of Froze Bubble better which uses the d-pad to control the launcher, but I think the new accelerometer control adds a whole new element to the game.

About the new Twisted version, straight from Samir himself...

New functions added to Elias Konstantinidi version.

- Accelerometer : Use accelerometer sensor to play and to set settings : "Twist" your phone left and right and press a key to launch the bubble.
- Dynamic volume and balance : Change music behaviour according to phone position.
There is 2 options :
Volume : The more you rotate your phone, the more volume will be less.
Balance : Stereo balance change according to phone positions (better with earphone ).
- You can set you own music by putting a file called fbtwisted.mp3 in c :\Data\Others
- Dynamic backlight intensitivity: Dynamically change backlight intensitivity according to phone position
- Vibration: The more you explosed bubbles, the more vibration duration will be high.
You have to enable vibration on your phone settings and unplug usb cable to get this option working.
-Some bug fixs

Click here to visit AikonLab and download Frozen Bubble Twisted. While you're there be sure to check out two other applications that Samir is working on - HandWave and nAlertMe, which I'll be talking about soon.