Installing now. Does it use Allegro?

Works great on my Nexus 7. Looks nice and runs smooth as silk. Not much to say about the gameplay that hasn't already been said about other games of this type. I've only played Classic mode so far. I might post a review on the Play store after I've played it more thoroughly.

One thing I noticed with the interface is if you push Back while in the game, it brings up the menu instead of asking if you want to quit and then giving you abort and save options if you opt to quit. It's not that big of a deal, but I did notice it since it doesn't work the same way as other games I've played.

One nice thing is the music toggle is on the main screen. Perfect for this kind of game where I might want to listen to my own music while playing.

Thanks Todd! The Classic mode is about basic as it gets (but still more complex than the first game), other game types might be better.

Yeah it gives you the same pause-menu no matter if you press Back, Menu or the on-screen menu-button. I suppose it would be slightly quicker to quit if it would confirm abandoning the game when pressed Back. Then again some people would probably miss the menu and complain when they cannot save..

Looking forward to your rating on the scale of boring-as-hell to slightly-boring! So far I've got a bit over 140k downloads on Android, much much less on iOS (don't know the actual sum in fact). Good number of reviews on Play Store (yay!), but only a couple on the App Store (boo!).

Funny thing is that I thought it'd be quite easy to advertise the sequel in the old game, and thus convert at least 2/3 of the players over to the new game, but somehow that didn't work out. I guess people don't want to switch, which is very odd considering how sucky the first game is on Android (where most of my players are). Of course it's only been a couple of weeks but still a strange thing.

About the Simon-thingy; I was actually considering leaving that type of game as an Easter-egg somewhere in the game, but didn't do it since I wanted to get the game out there. Also reminds me of the Chrome logo. I might add the Easter-egg in future, never say never!

Thanks for trying though! I recommend timed/quick modes, I find those much better than normal. Many people seem to prefer infinite mode, something I don't understand myself.

The message is shown three times, I figured some people might find it annoying if it popped up constantly. In case of no-more-moves -situations either the "remove color"-bonuses below (if available) or the shuffle-gem in top-right will be flashing. And if there are no shuffles, well, game over. The flashing is quite subtle so I can see how one could miss it (in fact, that was the reason of adding the popup message in the first place).

Yep, it can be quite random at times (one reason I prefer the timed games, where some skill is required). But all in all it's a casual game not meant to be very challenging. Interestingly, according to the Facebook stats (people who have logged in using FB) the majority of players are women.

Cheers, thanks for trying it!

It's kind of like that calculation for how many planets in the universe have intelligent life.
Let's say there are 50000000 people with smart phones.
Assume 1 in 1000 see an ad or blurb for a given app, now we're down to 50000.
Now if it's "pretty" or otherwise presented well, maybe 1 in 100 will download a demo, so we're down to 500.
If 1 in 5 like it enough to fork over the money, you've sold 100 instances.

Well the game has some merits, then.

Difficult to say, the ad supported model is very strange: varies a lot and it's difficult to estimate how long it is able to make revenue. But if I had to guess, I'd say you'd need millions of players (less than 1% of those people click ads) to make 50k a year. Maybe 2-4 million semi-active players, I don't know.

It also depends on the eCPMs you get, and the types of the ads. I'm only using banners; personally I hate interstitials, video ads and whatnot so I have not used them (even if they get much higher eCPMS, I'm told).

You could also earn much more by spamming ads during game play (maybe score some accidental clicks as well) but I don't do that either. Many games do that, though. I can tolerate banners in menus but anything more than that, no thanks.

As I said, I don't have ads in the middle of game. And luckily for you, nobody is forcing you to play this game -- feel free to pass and never look at it again.

Hell no, 99% of my revenue is from ads. (Although this is first time I'm trying IAP, just checking how it goes.) I guess it depends on the game though, if a game has been designed from the start to be IAP driven then it might be a different story.