GameBox Sudoku is our fantastic, high quality Sudoku Puzzle game including Three different board layouts and Three levels of difficulty.

Superb graphics, high-quality music and sound effects, and fantastic playability make this a excellent addition to your game collection and to the GameBox series.

GameBox Sudoku is designed to be the most intuitive Sudoku, easy for anyone to be able to pickup and play. And of course, as a GameBox it strives to be the best looking, best sounding, best overall Sudoku experience on the market.

Features

Three board layouts: 4x4, 9x9, and 16x16 puzzle sizes

High quality graphics: High quality graphics that are easy on the eyes even during long Sudoku sessions

Hint feature: An integrated hint feature helps you along whenever you hit a Sudoku stump

Ambient music: High quality, relaxing background music which fits the mood of Sudoku perfectly

Unlimited Undos and Redos: Unlimited Undo and Redo features gives you a chance to correct any error you make

Auto-save: Games are automatically saved when you exit, so you can continue where you've left off
 

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BlackFlip is an odd little game based on a title called Polarium for the Nintendo DS. Sort of like Tetris but more cerebral, the game has you flip tiles from black to white or white to black (the only two colors used on the game board). The idea is to clear rows by turning them all to the same color in order to make room for falling tiles. Levels also include gray tiles which can be used to flip disconnected groups.

I found the game counterintuitive at first and actually a bit hard to learn. The game includes a ton of  puzzles, each with unique designs. One of the neat features is that each puzzle has its own difficulty rating from one to five stars. The game doesn't really include any help features (apart from a video), so you pretty much have to figure it out on your own (it's actually not as easy as it sounds, at least not at first, even though the game's description makes it sound that way).

At this point (the game is still in beta), BlackFlip is fairly bare bones and doesn't have much audiovisual stimulation. The big gripe I had with it at this point is that my taskbar for some reason levitates to the center of the screen while I'm playing the game. Talk about annoying!  That made the game hard to figure out and very impractical to play.

This would be a deal-breaker in a final release, but I'm sure this issue will be fixed before the game goes final. As it is, the game has potential but really needs to do more to engage the player audiovisually. Although I haven't played the original, the game is a successful idea that may prove to be a good title on the Pocket PC.
 

Title: BlackFlip	Developer: XFLib
Genre: Puzzle	Demo: Y
Platform: Pocket PC 2003+	Price: $NA (open source)
Discuss this game	Rating (of 4): N/A (beta)