Saturday, June 18, 2011

Game Analysis : Sprin


Sprin

Game Description:
Sprin is a jump and collect game in iPhone platform. It using simple gameplay. Player will control the avatar to move from 1 step to another step to achieve the highest rank.
How to play:
First time player play the game, he/she will be asked to make an avatar from options provided and you can varied the options. For example, you can choose to use frog’s head, dog’s body, and cat’s tail.
After creating the avatar, player can play. Player need to move from existing step to another step in order to go to the highest steps. Within the game, player can collect apple. Apple used to buy accessories, from headwear, bodywear, neckwear, and eyewear.
The higher the step that player steps on, the smaller the size of the steps. In level 1, the size will be bigger than the steps’ size in level 2. The step also varied. There’s normal step that has different size in each level, there’s also moving step which moving from one side to the other side. So, player must jump at the right time to get to the step. The other one is the disappear step. It will disappear for a moment and then appear, so player must wait until it appear. The last one is the high jump step. Jumping to this step will make the avatar jump higher than usual.

How to win:
To win this game, keep climbing to the highest steps and collect many apples as possible. If player falls down, the life (which given 3 in each game) will be decreased. If the life is 0, then game over.
Why I want to play this game:
The graphics of this game is so simple, yet cute and colorful. It’s attractive for people. The simple gameplay made this game become addictive to play. Player will try to achieve highest level and try to buy all the accessories. The idea to make the avatar from different options (frog, dog, pig, cat, etc) are really interesting. Player would try to make different options for their avatar. Also the accessories is provided in many categories (eyewear, neckwear, etc) so player can try to dress their avatar in different way.

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