App of the Week (May 22, 2011): Blast Site

Posted by Hetal

If Angry Birds is any indication, mobile gamers love to destroy things! Yes, give ‘em the most elaborate structure you can make with crates and beams, and they’ll knock it down with a couple swift touch-screen swipes.

This week’s App of the Week will continue to let you stick to your guns bombs — behold Blast Site!

Blast Site borrows a page from mobile gaming (and Corona SDK!) phenomenon Bubble Ball in the way that it focuses almost entirely on gameplay to draw you in. The graphics incorporate a lot of stock artwork (you might recognize the crates from our in-game physics demo!) and there aren’t any external features like OpenFeint or Facebook integration (…yet?). There is only one simple, destructive premise.

That premise? Blow up everything on the screen with the bombs you are given!

Yes, in Blast Site, you are given a handful of bombs and tasked with strategically placing them along a crate-and-beam structure in each level and blow it to smithereens. Each of the game’s 20 levels have increasingly elaborate structures that require you to contemplate the ideal placement for your black orbs of death. Much like Bubble Ball, I couldn’t put this thing down until I got through every single level, after which I hoisted my iPhone above my head and let out a triumphant roar (video footage coming soon).

Seriously, check it out and you’ll totally understand what I mean!
Blast Site is available now at the App Store and Android Market (cross platform — nice!) as a perfect outlet for your inner pyromaniac.