{"id":9252,"date":"2012-03-09T02:46:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T08:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2012-03-09T02:46:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T08:46:14","slug":"snapp-judgments-bubblemech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/column\/snapp-judgments-bubblemech\/","title":{"rendered":"SnApp Judgments: BubbleMech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today\u2019s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comcolumn\/snapp-judgments-bubblemech\/attachment\/promo-_v138452938_\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9253\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9253\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/promo._V138452938_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s free app is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005BTALQ8?ie=UTF8&amp;ref=mas_faad\" target=\"_blank\">BubbleMech<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=bl_sr_mobile-apps?_encoding=UTF8&amp;node=2350149011&amp;field-brandtextbin=Coldwired%20Games\">Coldwired Games<\/a>\u00a0which usually runs for $.99. Do you like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puzzle_Bobble\" target=\"_blank\">Puzzle Bobble<\/a><\/em>? Or <em>Bust-A-Move<\/em>, or whatever you want to call it? Then you&#8217;re either going to love or hate this game, because <em>BubbleMech <\/em>is ripped off of <em>Puzzle Bobble<\/em>\u00a0pretty hard.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it could be a better rip off of <em>Puzzle Bobble<\/em>. It lacks any real time pressure, which takes away a lot of urgency from the game. It might make it better for a phone game, really kills the gameplay in general.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger problem? It turns the game sideways, having you shoot bubbles from left to right. It&#8217;s unnatural, an abomination in the eyes of god and man.<\/p>\n<p>Still, sloppy <em>Puzzle Bobble<\/em>\u00a0ripoff is better than no <em>Puzzle Bobble<\/em>\u00a0ripoff at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today\u2019s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? &nbsp; Today&#8217;s free app is BubbleMech\u00a0by\u00a0Coldwired Games\u00a0which usually runs for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,614],"tags":[244,34,68,241,2292,124,74,2291,108,60,2293,195,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9256,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions\/9256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}