Description
Mouse About, one of the best loved and rated iPhone games. As highly rated and recommended by: IGN (8.0), TouchGaming.org and TouchArcade.com
And by you;
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC *****
"One of the most polished and original games I've seen this year"
by Dave Murphy
ONE OF THE BEST iPHONE/iPOD TOUCH GAMES ***** by Namanert
THIS GAME IS GREAT! LOTS OF FUN! *****
"So far the best game that i've downloaded."
by sharonee
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Mouse About is a fun, fast paced touch screen puzzler from the creators of Numba™
This exciting new game is designed to be the perfect bite sized ‘pick up and play’ puzzler.
The Any Touch game mechanic lets you play by touching anywhere on the screen, making for some fast interaction.
The aim of Mouse About is to solve all the food puzzles by guiding Marv the hungry little mouse around the screen from one piece of food to another, he will then scoff the food down and wait impatiently for you to guide him to the next tasty morsel. Marv will have to eat all of the food onscreen to successfully progress onto the next puzzle. Each puzzle is played against the clock and you’ll lose a life if you’re beaten by the clock.
The puzzles in Mouse About are all randomly generated. So nothing is predictable.
Featuring:
- Any Touch game mechanic.
- Fun cartoon graphics.
- Addictive gameplay.
- Randomly generated levels of increasing difficulty.
- Challenge of the High Score Table.
Designed specifically for touch screen play, Mouse About is a real original.
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Cobra Mobile's other award winning titles include, Low Grav Racer, Numba and iBomber.
What's New in Version 1.3
minor fix
Customer Reviews
Excellent game!
This is such a perfect iPhone game! I wish all the apps in the store were of this quality level. The graphics are excellent, the sound and music are top notch, and the game play and control are the best. If any of you played the iPhone web app Stomp 'em" this is definitely for you. Get this game, it should be in the top downloads IMO.
An Overlooked Gem of a Game
It's an absolute crime that an original, beautiful, lovingly crafted, highly polished and thoroughly enjoyable game as this is relegated to obscurity here in the App Store, while hundreds of far inferior or downright useless apps are purchased and downloaded thousands of times. This game is the cream of the crop; it shot straight to my phone's front page as soon as I played it once. The developer truly understands how to craft the ideal casual puzzler with a finely tuned learning and challenge curve -- not too easy, not too tough, gently urges you to make more and more strategic choices about which food to go after, and the order in which to do so. The control scheme is elegant in its simplicity and fun to use. The graphics are top-notch. The music is well made, and far from annoying; it really adds to the play experience. This game is a bargain at $2.99, and worth more than dozens of other games at much higher price point. I urge you to download this now, you won't be disappointed. Support this developer with your app dollars, give them the recognition their fine product so richly deserves. Or you can overlook quality apps like this one, drive the small but talented developers away, and find the store filled with dozens of lighter apps, Breakout clones, Sudoku variants, and an endless stream of shoddy tip calculators. Oh wait, that's already happened.
Fantastic game!
Sorry, but I am lazy and already submitted these thought on toucharcade, but I wanted to post this here as well, thought shortened (character limit):
The basic premise is that you are a mouse that likes to eat food, you can move either up, down, left, or right, and then the mouse keeps moving until it touches a piece of food to eat. If there is no object or food in the direction that you sent the mouse, the mouse will run completely off screen into the clutches of a cat that likes to eat mice and thus costing you a life.
The trick is of course that there is a certain order in which you have to eat the various pieces of food in order to collect them all without sending the mouse off of the stage. There are also random objects thrown in some stages that you can send your mouse to, to keep him safe and obtain a better position to eat more food. The puzzles are randomly generated but there is still a sense of normal progression, as in the difficulty seems to increase naturally as you move forward despite the fact that the puzzles are random, and after you clear a certain amount of levels, you progress to different "worlds" that have new graphics, different types of food, and new objects. Each world becoming progressivly more challanging.
The control couldn't be more perfect, and is some of the best use of touchscreen as a gameplay mechanic I've seen yet. All you do is swipe the direction you want the mouse to run. Simple. There is no designated area on the screen you have to use, just swipe in any direction anywhere on the screen. The input is incredibly responsive, I have not had any delay or incorrect movement accidentally registered in the couple of hours I've played it so far. Very fluid.
The presentation is also very solid, high quality colorful graphics, simple yet catchy music, and nice (non standard UI copied) menus. Everything about it is very polished, which again makes me surprised that it didn't get noticed by the general public. This is a game with the same spit and shine as all the big boys. Not to mention the $3 price is just right, especially considering the replay value inherent with it's randomly generated puzzles.
If I were to have one complaint it would be that there is a bit of a delay between the time you hit the app icon on your iphone and when you actually start playing the game. It has two brief splash screens, which isn't a big deal, but it also has a loading screen that takes a bit of time, possibly 20 seconds or so. Though, I'm assuming that the loading may be the time it takes to generate the set of puzzles for the game, however, to make sure that once the game starts the new puzzles load up instantly even though they are all unique for your current game session.
All in all, I've tried around 100 games in the app store, and I'd probably place this somewhere in the top 10. For $3 it is a steal.
- Category: Games
- Updated Mar 02, 2009
- Current Version: 1.3
- 9.6 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: Cobra Mobile
- © 2008 Cobra Mobile Ltd.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
