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Featured App: Ynth - An Action Puzzle Platformer
Ynth is a new action puzzle game for iPhone by krabl.com, an indie team of three artists from Switzerland. The player controls the small red bug Kribl on its way through a deadly swamp. An endless rain of spiky fruits and Kribl's lack of swimming and flying skills force Kribl to move through the swamp by tilting chest-like labyrinths left by mysterious former inhabitants.
The rotation of the chests leads to a clever 2d-physics-based game, combining elements of puzzle and platformer games. Ynth's custom OpenGL engine was built to support absolutely smooth physics-based animation and antialiased drawing.
With its cute'n'weird graphics style, Ynth might look harmless initially, but solving all puzzles requires serious amounts of both thinking and dexterity. Therefore is is possible to skip levels that might seem hard initially and come back once the player got more experienced. As one of Ynth's players puts it: "If you enjoy puzzle games that are unique, try your patience and give you that feeling of accomplishment when you finally complete a level, you NEED Ynth."
Ynth features 61 challenging levels, hand-drawn artwork and music performed by the game creators. For a first update in a few weeks, online highscores and additional levels are in the works. Ynth costs USD 2.99 and there is a free trial version called Ynth Lite containing the first nine introduction levels.
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