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Piston Games unleashes The Screetch onto iPhone

Adding black to the colour match party

Piston Games unleashes The Screetch onto iPhone
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Developers' inventiveness when it comes to doing something different with match-three games appears to be never ending.

The latest example is from Russian developer Piston Games and its release The Screetch.

Set in a typical 7 by 7 grid, you choose where to drop the coloured balls that fall from the top of the grid, with matches of three or more disappearing. The twist is that the Screetch of the title is a black gooey mess that slowly covers up the colours. When the balls are completely black, they're no longer playable, reducing your area of operations.

However, making matches will cause explosions, removing blackness. Other options include the sparkly powered up balls, which when you get them in a match-three will take out all the other balls on the same horizontal and vertical axis.

Either way, the goo from exploded black balls is collected in a Screetch meter, and this is what you have to fill to complete each level.

Come as you are

Neatly, you can even play if you're colour blind, with an option to add numbers to each colour. Actually, this makes the game easier to play even if you aren't colour blind.

Support for Facebook Connect means you can highlight your scores, and there's a dedicated high score system with global and local stats saved and compared.

Each Screetch character you capture is also stored in your trophy room. Piston plans to make more functionality available with these via future updates.

Perhaps the most impressive thing about The Screetch though is the quality of its user interface and graphics. It's all very skillfully done.

The Screetch is out now, priced $2.99, €2.39 or £1.79.

You can see how it plays in the following video.

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