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Summary
This „chickenbrickstudios” game is all about, well, dots. Yes, dots are the so-called protagonists of this app, which is thus quite rightly named Dotter. Read on to find out if this game is worth your time or whether it’ll drive you dotty.
Features & Use
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The goal is to place as many dots as possible on to the screen. This might not sound all that challenging, the point is that the dots actually move, and they’re not allowed to collide with each other.
A dot can be placed in a give position by tapping the screen—the dot will then simply appear. The first dot that gets placed on the screen begins to move to the left at a constant pace. As soon as it disappears off the left hand side of the screen it reappears on the right and moves towards the left again. The cult game “Snake” comes to mind: the snake also exits the screen on one side only to reappear on the other. Dotter’s dots do exactly the same thing.
The second dot doesn’t travel to the left, it moves upward, rotating clockwise at 90°. It follows its orbit in the same way as the first dot, and once its disappeared at the top it makes its onscreen return at the bottom.
Dot number three also does the 90° clockwise turn thing, but towards the right hand side of the screen. The fourth dot goes towards the top, the fifth goes towards the left. This pattern (including the fact that the dots turn clockwise at 90°) always remains the same.
It’s up to the player to place dots in such a way that they won’t collide with each other. If a dot has made its journey across the screen once without colliding with other dots, the dots in question won’t crash into each other in subsequent runs, because the direction and pace always remain the same.
That about sums up the principle behind the game. You’re awarded 100 point for every dot, and collisions are accompanied by a vibration effect. Now, this may not sound like something that will blow up skirt, but I can tell you that it has the same addiction factor as other “simple” gameplay games such as Tetris, Pacman, and co. You want to beat your top score each time you play, try to come up with better tactics for placing the dots on the screen, and can’t help but compare yourself to the scores earned by the top 30 players. At the moment you have to manage to place at least 48 dots on screen to even make it into the top league of players… I’ve got a ways to go yet with my humble top score of 16 dots.
Now that you’re well informed regarding gameplay and controls there’s only one thing left to do: practice, practice, practice!
You’ll find the following three points under Dotter’s main menu:
• play: Begins a new game. You can also restart a game if you hadn’t finished it yet.
• top scores: Shows you the world’s best 30 players.
• how to play
You can also switch the vibrating effect on and off via the menu button. If a game has ended due to collision, you have the option of entering your name in a field that opens up and you can find out what your score is by pressing "Submit“. You can also check out the best scores by pressing “Top Scores”. And if you want to commence a new round, press “Play Again”.
This is the perfect game for when you need to kill a bit of time, but it also makes for a great game to play for a longer period of time, seeing as you may just keep going and going trying to beat your own top score.
Screen & Controls
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The app is very fast and starts after loading for a brief moment (no more than one or two seconds). The visuals are kept fairly simple, but the glitter effect when dots collide or when a new dot is placed on the screen is pretty sweet. Controls are child’s play: the menu is completely self-explanatory and in order to place a dot all you need to do is tap on the display. I appreciated the fact that when a new dot is placed the device vibrates momentarily, thus giving the player some feedback during the game. I would therefore recommend to keep the vibration effect switched on.
Speed & Stability
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The game runs smoothly no matter how many dots are onscreen. I didn’t experience any problems with this app.
Price/Performance Ratio
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You can download Dotter free of charge from the Market, but you will have to deal with advertisements beneath the main menu as well as after every completed round.
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KwaK, Aug 10, 2012
What happened!? Used to be one of my favorites. Just tried to install and play on my galaxy s2 and it takes about 20 seconds to load after clicking play! Fix this and its back to 5 stars
Manuel, Aug 5, 2012
Love/hate I love this game but it doesn't work properly on my evo 4g lte
Dominick, Jul 31, 2012
Small Screen Dosent display properly on 240x320 resolution.
Jana, Mar 25, 2012
@mohamed, I too have that problem, but I have to press play again and then back out, or just press the home button. Very addicting.
Mohamed, Mar 21, 2012
Good game, have minor problem here! I can't exit the game normally with the back button! It keep show me the sumbit your score window! I have to foce stop it .. Fix it
Brandt, Jan 29, 2012
Genius & Addictive I love it!
Umar, Dec 5, 2011
Funnnnn
Danny, Nov 12, 2011
Not bad but needs to be better optimised for different screen resolutions (mines 240x320)
Jacob, Jul 9, 2011
Addicting! The older version is far superior to 1.3. Had to get 1.11 back after the update, you changed waaay too much. Love it otherwise!
Rusty, Jul 8, 2011
Its amazing how hard and yet so simple of a game this is!!! Its swwweeeettt!!!
anthony, May 30, 2011
Well duh u always lose that's the point, its frustratingly addictive, love it!
Ryan, Apr 18, 2011
Poor concept. You will always lose. I would have rated lower if possible.
Jenna, Apr 6, 2011
Wont let me play. Keeps force closing :(
nickname3000, Dec 13, 2010
A nice idea well implemented
Juraj, Nov 26, 2010
Very challenging game,technnically polished,had lots of fun. Great for a free gamed,would even pay $1
Wesley, Nov 12, 2010
Don't work on Ascend". ...the fkn ads sure as fk do.
Grace, Oct 30, 2010
Pretty fun but doesn't seem to let me exit ever. Just keeps trying to make me enter my score
Joshua, Oct 16, 2010
Fun game, but the high scores are all fake
Anthony, Oct 15, 2010
This game is awesome, but need to fix scores!!!
geilan, Oct 8, 2010
Challenging
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