Thumb-It hitches onto mobile

The concept of the one thumb mobile game has been much vaunted, with everything from Skipping Stone to Tower Bloxx touting their ability be played with just the crucial single digit of your hand.

Now there appears to be a move to create a spin-off genre – the 'double thumb' game – in the form of Thumb-It!

The work of the same guys who brought us Mechanics, Thumb-It! is a reaction-based affair. Inspired by rhythm dance games, it challenges the text generation (that's us) to put their thumbs where their mouth is by pressing buttons in time to the on-screen prompt.

Aside from offering colourful on-screen rewards and boosting your gaming ego, the game also enables you to cross thumbs with other players in the rumbleX.com global rankings.

Indeed, Orange Pixel's Pascal Bestebroer could well have been fresh from rejoicing his top score when he explained, "As with Mechanics we tried to create a new way of gaming for mobile phones. The game starts slow but eventually you really need those messaging-thumbs to do the work for you – combined with fast reflexes."

We hope to take a closer look at Thumb-It in the near future. In the meantime you can give your number one digits a warm up via the demo (click 'Try It!'), or else browse the pictures above.