Presenting to you, the faithful reader, Running Pixel’s creation Bouncing Avatars. This latest game of theirs is a tower climber. The catch is that it involves a bubble with your Xbox Avatar conveniently placed inside of it. The object, of course, is to get as high as you can in the tower, bouncing from platform to platform.

There are several unique things present other than the whole bubble deal.  Randomly, black balls fall causing your bounce to be deflected. Some platforms are green with a spring or red for an explosion.  Both give you quite an extra boost.  The largest boost comes from a row of arrows point up that suck you in and shoot you higher.  If it’s not high enough to reach another tower,  you do have a rocket boost available. These are replenished by hitting the star checkpoints. Also if you fail, you can restart from one of these points. I suggest holding onto the rocket boost unless absolutely necessary, and believe me it will become necessary. Also, avoid black platforms at all cost as these are instant death as is the rising water that you fall into should you miss your jump. One more thing, the bubble can start spinning, affecting your bounce. So, with that in mind you are able to counter-spin or even create your own spin with a simple press of the a button.  This does need to be recharged, so I wouldn’t use this too often either.  Maybe just if the spin of the avatar makes you start to feel nauseous.

Some of the added fun in the game revolve around the multiplayer. Sure you can play with just yourself and try to reach a high score, but where is the fun in that. This game allows for a 4 player split screen race to the top that doesn’t exist. A fun local multiplayer game for only 80 MSP, it’s quite the deal.  Imagine sitting on a couch next to your drunken roommates as you all try to bounce about. Now that is my kind of fun!

Now for a bit of sad information. In the time that it has taken for me to get this review posted, Running Pixel has announced on their blog that they are no longer making XBLIG and WP7 games. The good news is that they have purchased the Unity license and will be focusing on Android games! Until then, the best we can do to support them is to give away 3 codes to download Bouncing Avatars.

Simply comment below answering the following question:

“What game did Running Pixel develop that require the use of a box to play the game?” (Hint: Check out their blog!)

We’ll pick 3 random winners from the correct answers this weekend and e-mail the codes to you. So be sure to use a valid e-mail when submitting.

Bouncing Avatars
Platform: XBLIG
Marketplace link: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Bouncing-Avatars/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-  d802585507fd
Price: 80 MP ($1)

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