IAMGAMEDEVELOPER - Diamond Blast is action puzzle game by Words Mobile for Android platform. The gameplay is very simple and so addictive for me personally, I like to see something being crushed. The task is simply to find three diamonds or more with same colors, and they have to be neighbor each other, and tap one of them, it will be crushed and turned into score. There are two modes in this game, Action which challenges player for 60 seconds to gain scores as high as possible, and Endless which lets player to obtain coins for purchasing power-up.
The lovely things about Diamond Blast is the gameplay, as I said, it is simple and addictive. Second nice thing is the game components, I love the Thunderbolt Diamond, it explodes in the form of cross. And last thing that I really enjoy is the singing combo, the sound effect is affected by the amount of combo that player makes, more combo will produce higher sounds.
In my opinion, the background music of Diamond Blast is not really proper with the game concept art. In the game, you may see a shadow of coconut tree, and when the game is over, you may see beach background. In this case, player may assume that the theme of this game is beach, which is cheerful, relaxing, hawaiian, etc. So, for me personally, the music must be changed, the current music is more proper to be used in shooting or action game with dark, robotic, or cops theme.
In addition, there is no story in this game, where does beach come from? no one knows expect the developer. Story is important. In every game, there must be a story. It doesn’t have to be a long and strong storyline with a good plot, and it doesn’t have to be declared in clear way, but at least, player can see and assume something. A very simple example is Angry Bird game, it’s about pigs who steal bird’s egg, the birds are angry and attacking the pigs, that’s story.
The singing combo system is great, unfortunately, the display of combo parameter is not very obvious, maybe the color is too plain, so player won’t see it. I’ve just realized after three times playing, and I see blue bar at the left top, what in the heaven is this? Then, I try to play, and when I made combo, it keeps being added, Ooh it’s the combo parameter.
From the programming side, I want to say that the architecture of Diamond Blast is good, it is proven by loading screen evertime the game begins, not only in the very beginning, but if you press home button, and back to game, it will load again. It’s good because it can be assumed that there is no memory consumption when the game is paused.
Finally, Diamond Blast is great game for me because of its gameplay, singing combo system, and its robustness. There are several things that should be modified, such as background music, display of combo parameter, and story.
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