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BaD #2: A Day with SlamBots
Published on February 3, 2017 1:36 AM
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SlamBots

Here's a cool little game. SlamBots is very simple, fundamentally. Your character automatically bounces and you tilt your phone to move left and right. Now tilt controls is generally a red flag for me—I don't think they work well most of the time—but tilting feels very natural in this case and works quite well. No complaints there. The game plays on a single screen that can scroll upwards if necessary. Bad guys and power ups appear randomly and you bounce on them for points and coins. Consecutive bounces build up a multiplier. The name of the game comes from your ability to tap and hold the screen and slam down on enemies, which gets you a lot more points. You can't slam down continuously, though, because you have a slam energy meter that depletes with each slam and comes back over time. You can spend your coins on upgrades (for your slam meter and regeneration, for instance), new characters and slammers, and new stages. You can buy more coins with real money as well as a coin doubler but none of that is necessary to play it and have fun (like me). It's a great little game to play if you have a few minutes. I've certainly enjoyed it.

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Posted on February 3, 2017 1:18 PM

It looks like a cool game.  Sadly, I have a flip phone. Embarassed

Posted on February 3, 2017 8:09 PM

Oh wow. Don't see many of those anymore O_O

Posted on February 4, 2017 10:07 PM

I have a flip phone, too!

Posted on February 5, 2017 12:24 PM

Nice.  I'm not alone.  I had another friend that had a flip phone and he upgraded to a smart phone a few months ago.   That dude's a sell out. Laughing

Posted on February 3, 2017 7:33 PM

I love the music. 

Posted on February 3, 2017 10:42 PM

Didn't you show us a mobile game a while back that looked like Bubble Bobble?  I forget what it was called, but I read about it here...

Posted on February 4, 2017 2:48 AM

Might be Drop Wizard...? That one made me think of Kirby but that was mostly the aesthetics. I could see it being similar to Bubble Bobble.

Posted on February 4, 2017 4:46 PM

Yeah I think it was Drop Wizard.  I'll have to see if it's still available and if I have enough funds to buy it.

Posted on February 4, 2017 5:29 AM

slambots are definitley better than spambots. 

Posted on February 5, 2017 12:30 PM

Haha, good one! Or should I say...BaD one Wink

(I'm a terrible person...but not a BaD person. Ack! I can't help myself!)

Posted on February 4, 2017 10:08 PM

And like James above, I, too, only have a flip phone.