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4Sep/110

Lua Lua Review


Good Mac games for young children are hard to find, but not impossible. Ladybugs and Bob the Builder are a few that are phenomenal games for kids. Lua Lua can also be added to this group with its many puzzles and fun to be discovered by young minds.

Lua Lua is a complilation of 7 different types of puzzles geared towards young kids but gets challenging enough for some older ones. La La Land is not a reference to Los Angeles, but a game where animals will sing and you must remember the sequence of animal sounds. It’s like the electronic game Simon or Bop It! Your progression is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Don’t worry if you do not remember the order, it will reset and show you again what to do. No pressure.

Thinky Thinky is a memory game where you turn over puzzle pieces to reveal the animal. You make matches of 2 identical pieces to complete. Cute characters to see and match.

Taquin or teaser is a slide puzzle game. In this game you slide tiles to make a picture of an animal. Click on the empty space to move a tile. It starts off very easy but each level becomes increasingly more difficult.

Pig Tac Dog is a tic-tac-toe where you are the winner. You are the dog playing against the pig, and it is very difficult to lose. Loads of happy times for the young ones.

Drag n Drop is where you drag and drop a picture of an animal to the outlined forms.

Soopa Koopa can be challenging with re-assembling of animal faces. In the beginning there are only 2 rows to slide until the face appears. However, this puzzle goes up to 8 slices of a face and with this many rows to align, it may take some time before the face appears.

Catch a Match is an action packed game where you click on pairs of the same animal falling from the top of the screen. It begins slowly and easy, but it will challenge some kids with many different animals floating down the screen. However, you do not get penalized and there’s no big buzzer to out you just a pleasant game to work on your cursor skills.

All these games will challenge different parts of your children’s brain in a fun and entertaining fashion. These puzzles are kid versions of adult plays. The games states it’s for kids from 3 to 7 years, but I think some 2 years old have the concentration, if not the coordination, to enjoy the game. You’ve seen 2 year olds learning the state capitals, all 50 states, names of dinosaurs, world countries, presidents, languages, etc. The list is endless. If the adult has the patience to go over things with a 2 year old, they have the ability to absorb all the information.

4 of the games are available to try out in the demo and the other 3 are locked. The larger cursor is great for little tots. Lua Lua is kid friendly with fun music and great, colorful graphics. In fact you can access free adorable dog icons. My favorite is Sharpeipei. Others are Chocolab, Pugglywuggly, Bostielu, Dogbully and Toxicodog. You can view these pictures at Lua Lua Dog Icons. Also any and all upgrades are free so you can’t go wrong with this awesome Mac game for kids.

Features of Lua Lua:
-7 Different Games in Full Version
-Great Fun for Kids
-Free Upgrades and Icons

Rating: ★★★★★

13Jul/11Off

Spring Bonus Review


Think cute farm out in Iowa with adorable young creatures prancing around happily in time for Easter with no cares in the world and don’t forget the sunny day with blue skies. That’s what Spring Bonus will bring to the table when you play this extremely upbeat puzzle. You’ll have to clear the cold and ice from the many game boards to bring spring fully into this realm.

This game can be played timed or relaxed. You swap 2 adjacent items to make a line of 3 or more of identical pieces like chicks, rabbits, Easter eggs, nests with blue eggs, daffodils, daisies, and lambs to clear. Make 4 or more matches and you get a bonus bubble that when clicked will explode and take out a few tiles. If you make matches with glowing tiles, it will fill up the rainbow on the left. Right below the rainbow will show you the goals you need to make before the level is complete. Each level will have different tasks to complete. Click on 2 bluebirds to clear an entire row on the game board. When you see golden eggs, you need to bring them down to the bottom of the screen.
Blocks will come in forms of ice to melt the winter’s freeze and make way for spring and Easter. You need to make matches over the ice and they will break open. If you play the game in timed mode, the clock is at the left.

Spring Bonus is a solid match 3 game. It’s relaxing whether you play the timed (enough time to complete easily) or relaxed mode. There are a lot of fun power-ups from the bubbles, bluebirds, smiling sun to rain clouds. Some clear columns and others clear rows. There’s lots of action and colorful movements in this adorable and charming game for everyone including children.

There’s really no story to interfere with your match 3 plays, but lately other games have more to it like mini games, involved tales and voiced acting. It is an Easter game with the seasonal bunny everywhere, but that’s about all there is to it. If you are a straight match 3 player, this is the game for you. Also there's no need to keep this adorable game to yourself, let the kids in on the fun. I give it a 3 out 5 for a cute, good game.

Features of Spring Bonus:
-100 Fun Levels
-Spring Themed Animals and Items
-Bonuses, Wallpapers and Power-Ups

Rating: ★★★☆☆

29Jun/110

Burdaloo Review


Think Beach Boys or Jan and Dean when you hear the surfer music while playing Mac match game Burdaloo. With that in mind, relax and have fun matching the colorful crazy looking birds on the playful Hawaiian islands.

Go from island to island matching 3 or more same colored birds to make them fly off the vines. You click on a row and move the burds from side to side or up and down. This is similar to Chuzzle, another fun play. In order to complete the level, you fill the silhouetted burds at the left for one form of the match game. Other forms of play are to not let the burds reach the top of the screen, match burds in order given or match the burds to the small pattern on the left.

There are rankings given to you on how well you accomplished your goals in each level. They are gold, silver and green. You can always go back to better your score. Also there is the ever present shop where you can buy upgrades. The first item is free, but you will need burdaloons to pay for the other gently used products. An interesting shop buy is the paint that will cause all of the birds of the same color to fly away and clear out your board. Lots of fun shop buys to unlock.

It is not all fun and games, there are blocks in this play in the form of black burds called Herman. They will block you from sliding the rows either horizontally or vertically if they are sitting in your way. Also the foliage will impede you from moving the rows. As the game progresses, so do the blocks from Herman to less matches, but that’s the fun of it so keep trying. You can always come back to that location on the island if you wish. You can always play in the Zen mode. It’s the endless play.

Burdaloo is just plain fun match game to play and listen to the ukulele music while watching the colorful and stylistic artwork of Hawaiian backgrounds. The burds are cute and funny with their own personalities. Enjoy yourself.

Features of Burdaloo:
-Fun Match Plays
-Power Ups
-Burds and Hermans

Rating: ★★★½☆

19Jun/11Off

Bob the Builder: Can Do Carnival Review


Bob the Builder: Can Do Carnival is an educational and fun Mac game for kids ages 2-5 years of age. It is full of cute characters and a variety of things to do at different levels to assure your child succeeds in having fun.

Bob and his friends see the carnival train go by their town without stopping, and instead of being sad, they decide to build a carnival of their own. Your child can play the game in the Story mode where he/she will follow Bob and his friends build a carnival for their small town. The Free Play mode you play the games without the cute story and the Sticker mode you can click on the sticker at the bottom of the screen and place it on different backgrounds for unique scenes your child creates.

In order to make the game playable for your child, you can choose the difficulty level from Easy, Medium to Hard. Of course, hard is for the 5 year olds and the Easy for the youngest of the group.

The first game is the planning stage of creating a carnival. The blueprints must be drawn for the rides. Bob will guide your tot on how to play this game. There are several different plans in different stages of development. The first plan you need to click on is the blank blueprint, next the base and then a piece on top of the base. It may be hard for some the kids to decipher but with a little help and encouragement from Bob, they will be able to accomplish this task. The next game is building. There are many different length logs and steel beams scattered on the ground. The child must pick out the matching color and the longest piece first, click on it, drag it to the table and click again to place. Then the next size and color bar must be placed on top until the smallest log is on top. Another game is to secure screws and bolts with the same color and proper tool. Another is to clean up the tool room by placing the same color tool to its correct box.

Addition games involve numbers and other skills your little tot can work on like finding the cat under which pile of objects and counting objects. In most of the games, two characteristics are in play like numbers plus colors. For example it will ask which pile has 6 yellow logs or 9 green plants.

Throughout the game Bob is very upbeat with his comments even when you make a mistake he’ll say things like “try a different tool”, “keep going”, “nice work” or “Oops, try again”.

The Sticker mode is a completely different and fun game where your child’s creativity will come out. He/she can go wild making their own scenes with all the fun characters like Scoop, Roley and Muck.

Bob the Builder: Can Do Carnival like the other Bob games are both educational and entertaining at the same time for young children. They can practice their numbers, colors and more with this fun puzzle game. Have your kids try the demo out and see the smiles on their faces.

Features of Bob the Builder: Can Do Carnival:
-3 Difficulty Levels
-Fun and Familiar Characters
-Entertaining Learning Experience

Rating: ★★★½☆

14Apr/11Off

Airport Mania 2: Wild Trips Review



Are you ready to be the air controller for major airports around the world and even on the moon? Take a quick course and get your air controller certificate so you can run your own airports in Mac sim time management game Airport Mania 2: Wild Trips. Take the challenge and don’t let the cute airplanes down.

Take the tutorial or skip it if you are a veteran air controller from the first Airport Mania. There’s a lot to do and many planes to land in this new game. You will be playing in 9 different locations from a desert, North Pole, Tiki Taka Island and even to the moon.

Begin by clicking on a flying plane to select, click on the runway, then click on the gate to direct your plane to that location. After the plane reloads the passengers, it will display an up arrow to take the plane back to the runway and back to the sky. Okay, that’s the basic play, but you know there’s always a lot more in time management games and Airport Mania 2 is no exception. Try refueling, loading luggage, painting, getting a new plane license and more to add to your play. If that isn’t enough, chain your planes to land one after another before the arrows disappear for a combo. There are many combos to master and will give you combo multipliers on top of all that. You will need all those combos if you wish to pass any of the latter levels. By the way, there are 99 challenging levels to complete.

Whew, if that isn’t enough, you get upgrades to buy, sell and repurchase just so you can manage your airport. Believe me when I say, you will need all the upgrades you can get a hold of to conquer each level. There are 4 goals to achieve from normal to perfect so you can replay any level to get a better score. There’s more: mini games from finding gifts for Santa to fighting off an octopus. Oh, I almost forgot if you see the helicopter, click on for more fun.

To round off this game you have cute day/night graphics and sound effects. This game can be fun for kids but it is also challenging enough for casual gamers to play. The gameplay is very similar to the first game with additions. It’s difficult to differential the type of plane because the colors are similar and they all look alike. This is important in later levels. If you are a fan of TM, you will enjoy playing this colorful and charming game so take to the air and fly the skies!

Features of Airport Mania 2: Wild Trips:
-Cute and Colorful Graphics
-99 Challenging Levels
-Mini Games

Rating: ★★★☆☆