Daniel Hruska Man is a playful and thoughtful creature. There are tens of thousands of games in the App Store that a mere mortal can barely sift through. However, sometimes there is a moment when an application literally catches our eye and we buy it without hesitation. The last time this happened to me was the game KAMI.
This is a puzzle based on the principle of paper folding. The playing surface, if I can call it that, is made up of a matrix of colored papers. The goal of the game is to reach a state where the entire surface is colored in one single color. Recoloring takes place by choosing one of the color palettes, clicking on the section you wish to color. As soon as you touch the display, the papers start flipping and everything is complemented by a realistic rustle. The paper itself, which according to the creators of the game was created on the basis of real paper, also looks beautiful.
Dye in one color? That's no problem after all. I tap here, here, then here, and here, and here again and I'm done. But then the display shows "Fail", i.e. failure. You did your coloring in five moves, but you only need three moves to get a gold medal, or one more move to get a silver medal. The number of maximum moves varies from bike to bike. The current version of KAMI offers four levels of nine rounds each, with more to come over time.
What bothers me about KAMI is that it takes a long time to start, even on the iPhone 5. On the 3rd generation iPad, the whole process takes significantly longer. On the contrary, I like that the application is universal. That means you can enjoy it on your iPhone and iPad. In the future, I would appreciate syncing game progress via iCloud so I don't have to play the same round twice on both devices separately.
Great game, just need some help now……:-)