Within the app, there is an option to use real-life currency to purchase in-game gold coins. The customer is then seen to fall over, appearing sick – players are congratulated with a ‘You win!’ bar. The game also incorporates ‘boss battles’, where players are presented with particularly difficult customers and they are required to match fruits in order to gradually deplete his health bar.
making a ‘L’ or a ‘T’ shape with fruit items results in differing positive outcomes). As players progress through the game, levels become increasingly challenging and more power-ups are unlocked (e.g. For example, a square match (of four pieces of fruit) creates a rocket, which then turns a piece of the same fruit into an ‘energy blaster’, destroying fruit surrounding it. Making bigger matches can create power-ups. From here, they also have the option of inviting Facebook friends, or ‘sharing’ their score via social media. After they have served all the customers, the app presents players with a pop-up screen displaying their score, best score, and number of stars achieved as a result of how many moves they used. Players have a set number of moves within each round to utilise in order to achieve the desired goal. Once this is done, the set of fruit disappears from the board and new fruits replace them. For instance, if there are two bananas next to each other, and another banana with a blueberry in the way, players must swipe the blueberry in the direction they wish for it to move – as a result, a set of three will be obtained. In order to match fruits in sets of three, players must swipe across their device screen to change the position of certain fruits – fruits can only move one block to the left, right, up or down. Multiple customers can place orders at any given time and there is a Ticket Box on the right-hand side of the screen which displays how many customers are left for a player to serve. When a customer places an order, they request a particular kind of fruit, and a particular number of pieces, to be included. apples, strawberries, bananas, blueberries, etc). They are presented with a large checkerboard-style screen containing random images of fruit (e.g. They are then told that ‘thirsty customers want drinks! Make matches to fill the orders’ – in order to do this, players must match three fruits of the same type.
When the app is first opened, players are presented with a screen containing two options: one to connect to the app via Facebook (and receive 25 free in-game gold coins as a reward), or a ‘Not Now’ option to continue without signing in. The skills required to play the app include problem solving, as well as motor skills to utilise the functions of the app. The objective is to identify groups of fruit that are similar in type within a board of randomised items, and to match sets of three or more by swiping across the screen.
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