If you lose more lives than this, then the ball turns black and leaves an ugly dark trail across the board, which makes your puzzle look bad.Īesthetically, and in terms of the game's mechanics, Inks does a great job, but the controls could do with some tweaking. You get a green badge clearing a puzzle after losing one life, and a maroon badge for losing two. Some of Inks' levels have a black hole or two that you need to keep the ball away from, and you also lose a life if you let the ball fall, between the flippers. Inks will make you toil to hit ball at just the right angle to splash certain colours and more often than not, there are obstacles just where you're most likely to aim. The game has five sets of 24 puzzles each. If you exceed this but finish the puzzle without losing a ball, you get only a golden badge. Each level has a target number of strokes, and if you finish the puzzle before hitting that number, you get a golden badge with a red star. Instead, it rewards you with badges, depending on the number of strokes needed to finish the game, and the number of balls lost. There are two flippers at the bottom of the level, and you control these by tapping the left or right side of the screen. It might be a puzzle, but Inks' basic gameplay is like pinball.
The levels themselves are laid out as puzzles as you work to hit the colours despite changing obstacles. Each level is likely to generate a unique painting, and even those of us with almost no understanding of art found it beautiful. The level ends once you've hit all the colours, leaving you with a kind of a painting that you can save or share if you wish to.
Hitting colours makes them splash on the board and the ball begins to leave a trail of the colour wherever it goes. To clear the level, you have to use the flippers to make the ball hit these colours. Each of Inks' levels looks plain, apart from a few colour boxes or circles. Unlike an ordinary pinball game, Inks isn't about racking up a high score. State of Play, the maker of beautiful games such as Lumino City, is the team behind Inks and we were drawn to the game thanks to its art. However, that changed once we saw screenshots and the trailer video on the App Store. Innumerable variations of the game have been made over the years, which is why our first reaction to Inks, a new pinball game for iOS, was less than enthusiastic. Pinball is an age old arcade game that has a big place in the digital age in no small part because of its inclusion in Microsoft's Windows XP.
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