Game Analysis : UsaRiva

UsaRiva
Game Description:
UsaRiva is a reversi game but it has modified graphics which is more attractive to others. It has 3 modes:
- Story Mode, there’re 5 stages inside. Play each stage to finish the story. You’ll have an AI opponent. Each stage makes the AI become stronger and cleverer.
- Free Mode, played with the AI. Player can choose the level of the AI, easy, medium, or hard. Player can also change the interface between modified graphics or simplpe graphic design. In modified graphics, the reversi piece will become characters and the board of the reversi become like a park.
- VS Mode, a 2 players game.

(3 modes) (Story Mode) (Set for Free Mode)

How to play:
If you ever played reversi or also known as othello, you can definitely know how to play this game. If you haven’t, place your piece (whether it is white or black that you choose) to replace the opponent piece with you piece. For example, your piece is white. The first time the game start, there’re 4 pieces in the board. Two white pieces and two black pieces. In UsaRiva, black goes first. When the turn is yours, UsaRiva will mark the cell where you can put your pieces at. Place your piece at the end of your opponent’s pieces. So, the black pieces that lies between your white pieces will turn into white pieces.

How to win:
When the game ends, the one that has more pieces in the board will win the game. There’s some logic to make the pieces you have is more than the other, try to get the cell at the corners. Basically if you place your pieces on the four corner cells, you will win the game because in corner cells, you can get many access to other cells and in corner cells, your pieces can’t be taken into black pieces.
If your pieces is less than the opponent’s pieces, you’ll lose.

Game aspects:
The graphics are attractively cute. It’s colorful with soft color. The characters (black and white bunny pieces) are adorable and it animates (blinking, jumping, etc). However, it’s not an addictive game. You can play other version of reversi and still got the same game. The difference is just on the graphics and cuteness. It maybe attractive to kids but when you play it again and again, it become a little bit boring. Modification of this game can be awarding system, like after playing the game for several times, player can get new challenging level or when finishing the story, there’re playable characters that unlocked. The story can be developed more and given a plot.

Game Analysis : Oven Break

Game Description:
Oven Break is basically a side-scroller game. It firstly published for iOS platform, such as iPhone and iTouch. It has several version, the original, infinity, and xmas version.

Oven Break
How to play:
Player will control a ginger-bread man that trying to escape from the oven. The interface of the game is:

At the top left, the bean points will increase along when player collecting beans that can be found along the way. FREEDOM text will be completed as player collected the alphabets. When all the alphabets collected and completes, one life/heart will be given. Life/heart given only two in every game, however, player can regain the heart by collecting the FREEDOM word. The pause game is for pausing the game. At below of the screen, there’re 2 buttons, JUMP and SLIDE. Press JUMP to jump when collecting beans or to swing and avoid the hole.

Press SLIDE to avoid the hanging objects and pass through below of it.

The slider below the screen is the indicator of which stages the player is playing. In the original version, there’re 5 stages and in each stages, the ginger-bread will run faster and faster, also the trickiness of the level also increasing.
How to win:
To win this game, survive every obstacle and finish to the end of the way. If player play the infinity version, there’ll be another level after finishing the first level. The next level is in outer space. However, if it’s in original version, the game will be finished and player can play again and again for fun or beat the high score.
Try to avoid:

Gap / Hole

Hanging objects (can be bells, roasted chickens, hats, birds, etc)
Player will lose if can’t avoid things and gaps then lose all the hearts.
What’s interesting in this game:
This game is addictive and the levels are not easy. It’s challenging. It’s colorful and it is a simple and fun game for anyone. It has award system, like in collecting FREEDOM word and player get one life. The controller is easy to understand by anyone. The idea of this game is also unique. The graphics are interesting and it has simple animation like how when the ginger-bread fall into the gap, etc. Also the sound/music is match with the game.