It is a race against time to pop all the coloured bubbles before the board is filled and the round is lost. In this classic arcade game and puzzle game, players will have to rely on their skill to win the game and score as many points as possible.
At the bottom of the Bubble Shooter playing board is the cannon, which is used to determine in which direction the player wants to send each bubble. You can aim the cannon with your finger on a touch screen or with the mouse on the computer. A guideline is also there to help players visualise which direction each bubble will be thrown and where it will land, depending on the direction chosen.
Directly after shooting the first bubble, another follows to be played. The colour of each new bubble is random, but can already be seen at the bottom of the game screen, behind the cannon. At regular 30-second intervals, a new line of bubbles appears.
In the Bubble Shooter, the player can take advantage of the visual aid, in particular to bounce the bubbles off the edges of the board to reach certain bubbles that are harder to access, or to judiciously place certain bubbles behind an obstacle or on another row.
The Bubble Shooter rounds or game only ends when all the bubbles have been popped and all the levels have been completed. However, the game can also end when the bubbles reach the bottom of the screen, in which case a life or level is lost, or the game itself may be over.
This is a tried and tested game format, inspired by the likes of the Bubble Shooter and the Puzzle Bobble arcade games – a puzzle perfectly suited to mobile, and that can easily be adapted to become a marketing game or a component of an internal communications campaign.