Enter the world of colorful tap-o-logy with Petri

Victor 2009-01-06 |

Petri is about playing with colors and turning into iPhone screen into a color riot while trying to make it look like one color –the one that you are instructed to do , and the one that is sitting pretty at the right bottom corner.

The idea is simple. As developer Matthew Gillingham tells iPhone footprint:

It’s an action-puzzle game. The idea is simple: the screen is filled with colors that are moving around in a pattern. Red moves into green, green moves into blue, blue moves into red. The other colors are more neutral.

Use of the interface: Petri is based completely on the tap-o-logical practice of the iPhone. Dragging erases a color, while double tapping changes a color according to the embedded pattern of colors.

Rating for the interface: 3.5

Gameplay: In one word, simply addictive. The game is not difficult understand, but a bit difficult to master. However, it’s fun lies in the swirling pattern of colors that will make you feel really god. The colors, since they move in a pattern, often create dome dizzy design that not only make for good optical experience, but also create quite stylized, semi cubist iPhone wallpapers.
The colors, themselves move in quadrangular formations, are deep yet soft on the eye. Same goes with the lilting play of patterns.

Rating for the concept: 4

App Store reception: The app has been launched in December 17th and I think it has got somewhat lost in the crowd of App Store. Only 2 reviews does not justify the potential of this app.

Quite a steal for $.99 and I am personally looking for more apps from this developer.