Addictive Smartphone Games

Addictive Smartphone Games

Apple managed to popularize the 99-cent game market, turning every iPhone, iPad and iPod owner into a potential customer. With Android, RIM and Microsoft all looking for a piece of the market, more developers are looking to strike it rich with the next big game. With simple objectives and easy-to-pick-up controls, these games pack a load of entertainment without the high costs of computer or console games.

• Cut the Rope – Your goal is simple: Feed the oversized frog-like creature candy. Of course, each piece of candy dangles helplessly from a piece of rope covered by obstacles, but the game packs a series of new challenges that require practice to complete. Mixing together strategy with wacky level designs, folks will be devising new methods for completing each level of the dozen of levels that comes with Cut the Rope.
• Draw Something – Remember Pictionary? Draw Something is Pictionary without the drawing paper. The game’s premise requires folks to pick a word and draw a picture to allow a friend a chance to guess it correctly. Each correct guess earns a set of coins. The more coins players earn, the more colors and words an individual can unlock.
  What makes the game addicting to play is the silly drawings friends will conjure up. One minute you might be drawing a picture of Rihanna while the next you’ll be attempting to draw something abstract like Facebook. It’ll take practice to add in details, but it’s worth the time.
• The Impossible Quiz – The name says it all. You try to complete an endless series of idiosyncratic questions trying to reach the end. You’ll be asked questions like Don’t Touch the Button. Individuals who do will fail and revert back to the start. Figuring out some of these bizarre questions will require some thinking. Other times, the game designers ask individuals to be patience or simply use unorthodox methods for complete each answer, such as turning the phone upside down, waiting 30 seconds and even remember the previous question.

Sources

“Seventeen” (2012)

AARP (2011)