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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

XBLA: Donate To Charity Instantly With Chime

Publisher OneBigGame have revealed a new puzzle game called Chime, and any money made from the game will be doing to charity.

Chime is a puzzle game mixing Tetris styled blocks with Lumines style design. Instead of blocks dropping from the top, you'll simply place.them on the screen to create quads, and you have to fill up the screen with them to move onto the next level. Actually, it reminds of a lot of the just announced Bittos for WiiWare except the off-cut block pieces will simply disappear instead of becoming a hindrance.

OneBigGame is a non profit organization, so any profits coming from the game will go to Save the Children and the Starlight Children's Foundations. Zoe Mode, a subsidiary of Kuju Entertainment, developed Chime on a pro bono basis.

While it's nice to see a game be released for charity purposes, I am skeptical on whether the game will actually sell on its merits. Not to be a downer, but as an Xbox Live Arcade game it looks pretty bland, and based on the sales of Droplitz and other puzzle games on XBLA it won't set the world on fire, and that's a shame.

Hopefully I'll be proved wrong.

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