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post Jul 18 2005, 11:25 AM
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PDAmill is a developer of games and applications for portable platforms including Windows SmartPhones and Pocket PCs, Palm and Symbian devices. Their products show consistently well thought out designs put together into polished final products.

The staff of Mobile Gadget News has been given the chance to review their latest offerings of games for the SmartPhone platform. These games are all jewel based games with different gameplay requiremnts. Jewel games have become like Tetris, in that many variations of the original game have emerged, and all seem to have a dedicated (or addicted) following. This series of games will prove to be just as addicting as their other titles.

Here is what PDAmill has to say about Stone Stacker:

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There is a lot of left over rubble in the Melonchi mines. After only a few short minutes, the pebbles and rubble can start to build up rather fast. There has to be a Dwarf assigned to clean up this mess, and that Dwarf is you, Dunkvel! It's the only place, where you will get payed to break and blow stuff up all day!


Note: The screen captures in this review were made using Microsoft's ActiveSync Remote Display. They contain border window information not seen on the actual phone.

When the game starts up you are asked to put in your name:



The main menu gives you a few options:



The INFO section contains quite a bit of information including gameplay instructions and game story.





Here are the options for configuring game play. The volume and brightness controls are pretty self explainatory. The ghost gem makes it easier to see where you are lining the gem up to be dropped, and show grid makes it easier for older eyes to get things lined up!



And of course, every game must have a high score board!



Ready to play? Let's Go!



This game is very similar to another of PDAmill's new offerings: Stone Pilot. The goal here is to keep the gems from piling up to the ceiling by matching 3 or more of the same color in connecting positions. Once you get 3 gems of the same color together they disappear. But unlike Stone Pilot, this game does not add pressure by pushing up new gems from the bottom of the screen. Basically it is a very close match to Tetris. The differences being the pieces dropped are not different shapes and in order to clear out gems you must match up 3 of the same color. This game is definitely much more my speed.




The object is to not let the gems reach the ceiling. Clear off enough gems and you advance to the next level. Fail to keep the gems from reaching the ceiling and you will find yourself starting all over again.

Like Stone Pilot, I enjoyed playing this game. It is easy enough to play the first time you pick it up and it lacks the frustrating game pace that Stone Pilot has. For those of us with less finely tuned reflexes this is a great game.

This is yet another example of the eye candy PDAmill produces. And the gameplay is smooth and easy to understand. The game is well designed and has an interesting objective. I have given it a 4.5 out of 5.

Buy it at Handango


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