Tiki Balls (2.9Mb)
Tiki Balls is natively an online flash game, but I am posting it here as a compiled offline version is also available for downloading. It plays very well and has great graphics and music. Unusually, you draw a paddle using the mouse to change the ball’s direction though the length of paddle you can draw is quite short.
It has elements from Arkanoid, such as destroying blocks, some of which take several hits to destroy, but there is the added element of guiding the ball into a home base hole. The base holes are sometimes hidden until you complete some tasks. The ball can be made to change color for different effect, and there are bonus power-up balls which when collided with give extra powers and points. As well as extra lives and increasing standard powers, you can increase the size of paddle you can draw, and obtain magnet, invulnerability and dispelling powers. In further levels, there are no fixed edge blocks and damage occurs if you let the ball fall off the edge in any direction.
It plays full-screen in the offline version, using the mouse to control the ball. Click and drag the hand to draw magic paddles. The ‘Spacebar’ or ‘Up’ arrow key alternates the ball‘s color between white and black. My only (slight) observation is that the ball could move faster to make reflexes more demanding. There are 20 fun levels you can play.
It has a full tutorial built into the game, explaining new features at the start of levels.
It’s an unusual and very innovative game, which is a good deal of fun to play!
Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKSI-BZZQQA
Download HERE ------- (Use the orange ‘free download’ button)
Play Online - Google "Tiki Balls" eg Play HERE
