Lumines
Lumines is a block-dropping game, that may seem at first to be similar to Columns and Tetris. A 2 x 2 square (an O tetromino) made of four smaller block pieces is dropped into the playing field, which may appear different as the player advances through levels or skins. The small blocks that comprise the larger blocks will be one of two different colors. The objective is to rotate and align the blocks in such a way as to create 2x2 squares of the same color, which may span multiple blocks and, indeed, share blocks. For example, if one should get a 2x3 area of matching blocks, the middle portion will "share" itself with both the left and right halves and create two 2x2 squares. After the "timeline", which is synchronized to the music, sweeps over the matching blocks, they disappear. When too many unmatched blocks pile up to the point where no more blocks may be dropped in the playing field, the game ends. When part of a falling block hits an obstruction, the unobstructed portion of the block will split off ...
Details
- IGDB 8.3
- Release date
- 12 Dec 2004
- Genres
Music Puzzle
- Developers
- Platforms
iOS Legacy Mobile Device PC (Microsoft Windows) PlayStation Xbox - Series
- Platforms
iOS — 1 Sept 2009 Legacy Mobile Device — 12 Mar 2006 PC (Microsoft Windows) — 28 Nov 2007 PlayStation Portable — 12 Dec 2004 Xbox 360
- Game modes
Single player Multiplayer
- Perspectives
Side view
- Publishers
