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post Jul 18 2005, 11:23 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 Rising Diamonds:

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In the game of Rising Diamonds you are playing Velohan the brave Dwarf who is in charge of Shipping and recieving gemstones. While Dwarves are constantly coming with additional piles of gems Velohan has to see that the gems stack on each other in the correct way and they never reach the ceiling of the Melonchi shipping facility.


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.



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



Ready to play? Let's Go!



The game instructions are very easy. Get 2 or more gems of the same type next to or above/below each other and select them and they will disappear. The object is to get many gems of the same color next to each other and clear them all out at once. Each time you select to clear some gems, a new row of gems pushes its way up from the bottom. It's like playing Tetris backwards.




One helper the game gives you are the bombs that can clear out a large section of gems at once. Just select it and watch the gems vanish!



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.

This game is a lot of fun. We all know how addicting Tetris can be, and this game is really no different. Once you start playing it you will have a hard time switching to another 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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