Released by Yellow Monkey Studios, Socioball is a new puzzle game that’s set to go live on July 1st. In this game, players are tasked with getting a ball to move from point A to point B. The challenge lies in the layout of the board; to wit, there is a board comprised of tiles, on which the ball will roll with some of the tiles missing.
Players will be given specialized tiles that will re-direct the ball’s behavior when it comes in contact with them, so players need to figure out which tiles need to fit where, in order to complete the level. Socioball also has a level editor, so players can create their own levels, and tweet them out to other players for them to try out. From the release: “The game uses steganography to provide puzzle previews in twitter timelines.
Sociaball Features:
– Play over 60 mind bending puzzles where you must get the ball from start to finish by placing missing tiles in correct places.
– Create your own puzzles with our built-in level editor and test them out.
– Tweet your puzzles to the world, from inside the game! Everyone who owns the game can now see and play them. You can optionally tag your friends too!
– Get an ever-increasing supply of puzzles from twitter.
When you share a puzzle, Socioball takes a snapshot of it. The game then hides the puzzle data in the image and tweets it with #socioball. Socioball searches for puzzles on Twitter using the hashtag, decodes the image data and makes all the puzzles available on twitter seamlessly playable from inside the game, effectively using Twitter as a level-sharing platform.”
Sociaball is going to be free to download, but the developers haven’t mentioned if it’ll be ad supported or include IAPs. In the meantime, you can check out the game in action in the video below. We’ll post an update once the game launches.
