Fruit Ninja: Part 1

Fruit Ninja by Halfbrick Studios

iPhone Application Game

Fruit Ninja is one of the most popular games for the iPhone with over 10 million copies downloaded. Starting out as a game for the iPhone versions have also been developed for other smartphones, tablets, the Xbox 360 Kinect and a web-based version on Facebook.

The gameplay consists of slicing fruits that appear on your screen with your finger. The more fruits are sliced the higher a score you get. Extra points can be achieved by slicing multiple fruits at once creating combos. In the main mode you must slice all the fruits on the screen, if you miss one you lose a life. After losing three lives the game ends. If you hit a bomb the game ends instantly. In some of the other modes there aren’t any lives but time limits instead.

When first entering the game you are presented with a main menu where you have four choices. You go forward from here by slicing through the fruit that has your choice on it. If you haven’t touched the screen a small animation shows a hand slicing through the New Game selection, indicating how to proceed.

After slicing New Game you are given another four choices, this time Mode Selection. Once again another animation appears on how to select a mode. I chose Classic as this sounds like what could be considered a regular version of the game.

When you first enter a mode there aren’t any instructions on how to play. You are thrown into action at once, and unless you’re intuitive it isn’t very clear what to do. As I had already sliced two fruits in order to enter the mode I understand that the main function of the game is to slice fruit. Once you figure this out the game isn’t complicated. You have to slice as many fruits as possible without dying. The goal of the game is to post high scores, try to beat other people or just beat your own personal record.

In order to actually read what the game is about you have to first go through to Extras and then about About.