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Antimatter: Pangea makes another winning iPhone game

MG Siegler, VentureBeat12.01.2008
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The first game I downloaded from Apple’s App Store for the iPhone was Enigmo, a puzzle game by the development company Pangea. It’s a great game in the vein of Lemmings, but you manipulate drops of water rather than death-seeking drones — so great, that I still actually play it. (How many iPhone apps can you honestly say you’ve been using for months?) Yesterday, Pangea released a new game into the App Store: Antimatter. After a day of playing it, I’m confident that it’s another winner.

Like a lot of good games, Antimatter is hard to describe and easier to show, so I included a video at the bottom of the post of some gameplay. Basically, Antimatter kind of reminds me of a pinball game. You move a glowing orb around the screen with your finger trying to turn blue lines (which are also moving and changing size) red. You have to get all the lines on the screen to turn red within a certain period of time. It may sound easy, but it’s not.

Antimatter is also a bit reminiscent of Geometry Wars, a popular game on Xbox Live. Certainly, the space motif is the same.

The controls on the game can be a bit frustrating depending on how you use your iPhone’s touch screen. But you can tweak the control sensitivity in the settings menu. It also seems a bit odd that this game doesn’t use the iPhone’s accelerometer, since you are moving an object around a screen. But I think that would make Antimatter way too hard.

Perhaps the best part of Antimatter is its price. In what AppShopper is calling a “special introductory price,” Antimatter is currently only $0.99. Of course, all of Pangea’s games are currently $0.99 through December 2 as part of its “Black Friday” sale. The price reductions have given Pangea three of the current top ten selling paid apps in the App Store with the aforementioned Enigmo riding high in the number one spot.

You can find Antimatter here.

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