FizzBall - A well designed enjoyable game for Linux
Anybody who has played games on their PC will be familiar with a classic game called Breakout where you have to bounce a ball with a paddle and smash all the bricks. While this game in its original make does not sport any special features, it has helped spawn a number of breakout clones which provide additional special effects such as power-ups that provide more power to the ball for a short while - and which make it far more entertaining and enjoyable to play. A couple of years back, I enjoyed playing a breakout clone called DxBall. But most of these so called breakout clones are developed to be run exclusively on Windows. And one of the standing grouse of Linux users is the dearth in quality professional games which run on Linux.
FizzBall one of the games developed by Grubby games and released for Linux is a game with a little similarity to the classic Breakout game in that you have to bounce a bubble using a machine which has the same functions as a paddle in Breakout. But barring that, the game play is entirely different. The aim of the game is to collect all the animals from the wild by directing the bubble towards the animals. In the beginning of each level, the bubble will be small and will bounce off the animals which are larger than the bubble. So you have to collect food in the form of apples, coconuts, acorns and so on littering the area; and as the bubble gobbles up these things, it grows in size and is able to collect larger animals. The level is completed once all the animals are collected inside the bubble in which case, you are taken to the next level. There are over 180 levels in this game.
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