![]() Sugar Blast is available now in all good toy stores and e-tailers, or on-line at. Overall, it looks like a good family game released just in time for the holiday season. The goal of the game is to gain progressively higher scores by matching three or more balls of the same color in a line (vertical or horizontal), by swapping adjacent balls. The gameplay is similar to the classic match-three with a couple of twists. Shariki ( Russian:, 'The Marbles') is a puzzle video game written in 1994 for MS-DOS by Russian developer Eugene Alemzhin. It will be interesting to see how well the transition from digital to tabletop will be received and whether CMON will end up entangled in a lawsuit.ĬMON’s use of cute candy tokens is a shrewd move that is bound to attract the attention of younger gamers. This was also based upon a 1994 game called Shariki. Bejeweled was released in 2001 by Popcap and saw players match different colored jewels. This is despite previous match-three games, that candy crush is based upon, having using the same ‘match, drop, and refill’ mechanics. King, the studio behind Candy Crush, is well known for its litigation against studios who ‘copy’ or have similar games, especially where candy iconography is used. The player repeats this until they feel there are no more available matches and passes to the next player. Any space towards the top is filled with random candies from the bag. These are removed from the game and the board is tilted towards the player forcing any spaces beneath to be filled. Players each take a turn starting with a full game board and attempt to make a ‘blast’, a valid match of three or more candies. In the box, you get the tilting game board, 72 candy pieces, a cloth storage bag, and 6 objective cards. Games should take no more than 20 minutes to play. Sugar Blast is aimed at one to four players aged eight and over. RELATED: Arcade1Up Reveals Infinity - A Digital Board Gaming Table ![]() The match-three puzzle genre is popular on mobile and with casual gamers, and CMON no doubt hopes to capitalize on that market with its latest game. ![]() The recently announced game features a unique four-way tilting board that simulates the drop mechanic made famous by titles such as Tetris coupled with the match-three twist, from Bejeweled and Candy Crush. They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery and nothing could be more true with CMON’s latest title Sugar Blast. ![]()
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