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Your next game addiction might be 'one-button-dubstep-climber' Get Hi, out on iOS this Saturday

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Your next game addiction might be 'one-button-dubstep-climber' Get Hi, out on iOS this Saturday
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In 2013, Philipp Stollenmayer gave us Cyro, a game about spinning through a gauntlet.

Last year he turned in another tough challenge that had us reflecting on life and death in Sometimes You Die.

Now, in 2015, Stollenmayer seems to be aiming to be the champion of bite-sized arcade flippers. At least, that's how it appears so far.

You may remember that for Pancake Day he made Pancake - The Game. You flipped a pancake with a saucepan as many times as possible without it falling to the floor. That's all there was to it.

His latest game is a riff on that same idea. It's called Get Hi, and Stollenmayer has deemed it a "one-button-dubstep-climber."

You touch the screen to flip a vertical stack of paddles, upon which a ball rests. As the title instructs, your aim is to get as high as possible by flipping the ball up and up. And you do this to the warbling, crunchy bass of dubstep.

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Every time you reach a new height the screen will scroll up with you. However, it will not scroll back down. Should the ball fall below the screen then your go is up.

You can, however, choose to watch a video advert to continue from where you were. But you can only do this once.

And you don't want to get as high as possible just to get a decent score, either. There are 50 themes to unlock that change the visuals.

Ball sports, animals, food, and tabletop games are just some of these themes. It's not much but this is the kind of game that becomes hard to put down once you stop.

You'll be able to download Get Hi for free on the App Store once it comes out this Saturday, May 23rd.

Chris Priestman
Chris Priestman
Anything eccentric, macabre, or just plain weird, is what Chris is all about. He turns the spotlight on the games that fly under the radar.