Bubbles
What is it?
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The name Bubbles has been used for several games. This page is about the Macintosh game based on Color Lines. There is also a Windows game based on SameGame, and there is a Tetris variant by Dynotech Software. These games are not connected in any way.
Compared to the original Color Lines, Bubbles has unsurprisingly superior graphics, more variety (you can choose the size of the board and how many balls will appear with each turn), but a bad interface.
Color Lines had a simple click-point-click interface: you click on the ball, ball starts to wobble, you click where you want it, and if the path is clear, the ball will wobble there. This interface works very well. Ivan Golubev kept it for his Windows port Color linez as did Paul Benenson for BallTriX (without the wobbling, though).
With Bubbles, it's drag'n'drop, which is annoying and error-prone. Not infrequently it happened to me that I accidentally released the mouse button too early and ruined an otherwise promising game.
Bubbles is one of those games that is hard to place geographically. The name Maxym Runov indicates Ukrainian origin, but ElegantSoft are located in Dublin, and there are several indications that Maxym Runov was a resident of Ireland when he wrote Bubbles. Meanwhile it seems he has moved on to California. The game itself, while Color Lines is something typical Russian, catered a lot to the Japanese market and is available in a Japanese version.
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Paul Benenson | |
| Color linez | |
98 | |
Ivan Golubev | |
| Lines '98 | |
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| Tactical Lines | |
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Digital Geckos | |
