Green Jelly stretches onto Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8

Hey guys, did yous miss me? I've been busy playing Greenish Jelly, which you mustn't confuse with the ring who performed 'Three Niggling Pigs' in the nineties.

This Light-green Jelly is really the latest Windows Phone eight and Windows 8 game from Russian developer MaxNick. Xbox gamers should call up MaxNick'due south highly enjoyable Spider Jack and the tiresome-only-piece of cake Plough N Run. Their latest game unfortunately doesn't accept Xbox features (more than on that later the break), but it is still a cute and outgoing physics puzzler in the vein of Spider Jack.

Similar Spider Jack before information technology, Green Jelly starts out with a very cursory but humorous cinematic that lays out the game'south premise. The creature (whose name is the aforementioned equally the championship) is sort of a living chunk of gelatin. Ane 24-hour interval he heads to the refrigerator just to detect that it's woefully empty. This of course inspires him to seek food elsewhere…

Instead of flies, Greenish Jelly eats sweets. The goal of each level is to reach the gingerbread house exit while eating equally many candies as possible. These candies are optional option-ups, but you practice need them to unlock new level sets then you can' skip too many. Light-green Jelly has iii sets of twenty levels at launch, for a total of 60 levels. MaxNick promises more in a hereafter update.

Stretch and shoot

The actual gameplay works a scrap like Cut the Rope and like games, with a few twists to continue it from being likewise similar. Our hero needs to latch on to objects in order to get around. Bear on and drag him and he'll extend a limb over to nearby objects. Brand a swiping motion over his limbs to cut them, causing him to driblet downward or slingshot around.

The unique mechanic hither is that Green Jelly can slingshot with a groovy degree of precision. Whenever he is latched on to at least i object, pull at him and you'll run across a line appear to show which way he'll fly. Then release and Jelly shoots off in whatever arc you selected, hopefully grabbing processed along the fashion. Every bit long every bit he passes by another fixed object, he'll safely latch on to it.

Miss or otherwise let poor lilliputian Green Jelly to fall off the screen and he dies. Various obstacles can impale him too, such equally purple buzzsaws and electrical currents. Luckily there is no penalty for dying. The level restarts instantly, allowing the player to try a new (and hopefully less unsafe) strategy.

Xbox denied

As we mentioned earlier, two of MaxNick'due south previous games have been Xbox-enabled. Both of those titles came from Chillingo, Electronic Arts' indie publishing arm. Green Jelly is not published past Chillingo though. On iOS and Android, G5 Entertainment is the publisher, whereas MaxNick chose to self-publish on Windows platforms.

Sadly, Microsoft even so does not allow indie developers to cocky-publish Xbox games on Windows Phone. Considering MaxNick didn't sign up with a large publisher (thus giving them a cut of the profits), Light-green Jelly has to go without Xbox features. Mobile Xbox gamers should exist used to situations like this past now, simply that doesn't make it whatsoever less frustrating.

Hungry for more

Dark-green Jelly tin't compete with Cut the Rope equally far as looks, but the protagonist does expect cute and animate pretty well. The backgrounds are themed after various foods similar waffles and chocolate bars. They tend to be on the dark-brown side; hopefully future levels add a bit more colour.

If y'all enjoy games of this blazon, yous'll probably dig what Green Jelly has to offering. The puzzles starting time out proficient and like shooting fish in a barrel, gradually ramping up in difficulty over time. The mechanics of latching onto objects and slingshotting off of them give players a lot of approaches towards solving the various puzzles too. Hopefully MaxNick pumps out new levels and gives this game some staying power.

The telephone version is priced just right for what y'all get, merely the Windows eight version seems a bit pricey. At least they both offer a trial, so players tin get a taste of the jelly before buying it.

Green Jelly – Windows Telephone 8 – 28 MB – $.99 – Store Link
Greenish Jelly – Windows 8 and RT – 51 MB – $4.99 – Shop Link

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