{"id":1231,"date":"2007-02-01T09:39:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T16:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2007-04-14T03:02:19","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T10:02:19","slug":"bubble-islands-%e2%80%93-dot-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Bubble Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bubble Islands\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dot-invasion.com\/bislands\/play\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Bubble Islands\" id=\"image1229\" title=\"Bubble Islands\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/Bubble-Islands-300-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Bubble Islands\" id=\"image1228\" title=\"Bubble Islands\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/Bubble-Islands-50.gif\" \/>Bubble Islands is a new retro-style arcade\/puzzle game launched two days ago by <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.dot-invasion.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dot-invasion.com\/dinv\/\">dot-invasion<\/a>, a Swiss design\/entertainment studio created in 2005 by Alexandre Renevey.<\/p>\n<p>Bubble Islands is strongly inspired by Puyo Puyo, a game developed in 1991 by the Japanese company Compile.<\/p>\n<p>The version currently online at the time of writing is a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.igf.com\/2007finalistswinners.html\">finalist of the 2007 IGF Festival<\/a> in the Best Web Browser Game category. The game isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t finished yet but is already playable!<\/p>\n<p>Two different modes are available: the arcade mode and the puzzle mode.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bubble Islands\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dot-invasion.com\/bislands\/play\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Bubble Islands\" id=\"image1230\" title=\"Bubble Islands\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/Bubble-Islands-300-2.jpg\" \/><\/a>The object of the game in the arcade mode is to defeat each of your opponents in a duel by filling their grid up to the top with parasites. To do so, connect at least 4 bubbles of the same color to make them disappear. The faster you connect your bubbles, the better.<\/p>\n<p>In the puzzle mode, your goal is to remove ALL the bubbles from each of the 10 islands in each level. Once you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve completed a level, the next one is unlocked.<\/p>\n<p>Move your character with the arrow keys and press the space bar to drop your bubbles and to switch them as well while falling.<\/p>\n<p>I spent almost two hours playing with this game today, and overall, if the concept of Bubble Islands is not really innovative, the game is amazingly fun and addictive. The eye candy graphics and the animations are impressive, the different characters are really cute, and the game offers many challenges and a great replay value, thanks to the two game modes available and to the special characters that you can unlock and use once all the others defeated.<\/p>\n<p>And wait, there is more to come. As mentioned above, the game isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t finished yet and a new version should be released soon, with a multiplayer mode, hi-scores and a puzzle submission option! We are really looking forward to the final version!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bubble Islands\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dot-invasion.com\/bislands\/play\/index.html\">Have fun!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Update: walkthrough  for the puzzle part <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bubisl.kilu3.de\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bubble Islands is a new retro-style arcade\/puzzle game launched two days ago by dot-invasion, a Swiss design\/entertainment studio created in 2005 by Alexandre Renevey. Bubble Islands is strongly inspired by Puyo Puyo, a game developed in 1991 by the Japanese company Compile. The version currently online at the time of writing is a finalist of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,29,12,2,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acade","category-flash","category-free","category-games","category-online","category-puzzle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}