About This Game Play Zoombinis and guide the little blue creatures through fun and increasingly challenging puzzles on their way to a new home. Zoombinis is a re-creation of the classic, award-winning 1990's puzzle game Logical Journey of the Zoombinis. The small blue creatures, each with distinct personalities and appearances, are escaping imprisonment by the evil Bloats who have taken over the Zoombinis' home. Players take on the role of guide and help the Zoombinis reach the safety of Zoombiniville. Use logic, analyze data, spot patterns and hone problem solving skills. Players face a series of increasingly difficult challenges that stand between the Zoombinis and freedom. Twelve perilous puzzles each with 4 levels of increasing difficulty, a great story, and many fun and memorable characters make for an engaging and challenging experience. We challenge you to get all the Zoombinis to safety! The Challenges Allergic Cliffs Stone Cold Caves Pizza Pass Captain Cajun's Ferryboat Titanic Tattooed Toads Stone Rise Fleens Hotel Dimensia Mudball Wall Lion's Lair BubbleWonder Abyss Mirror MachineFeaturing Beautiful new backgrounds The original voices for the Narrator, Stone Guards, Pizza Trolls, Captain Cajun, and the Innkeeper Restored music from version 1.0 of the original game Improved celebrations and achievementsBONUS Original Game SoundtrackBONUS Digital WallpapersBONUS Mobile Ringtones (Android/iPhone)BONUS Digital Poster 1075eedd30 Title: ZoombinisGenre: Adventure, CasualDeveloper:TERCPublisher:Viva MediaRelease Date: 28 Oct, 2015 Zoombinis Download Epic Games My childhood called and I answered.I first saw this game in 1998. At a "friend's" house. That b*tch never let me play anything. Not her N64. Not her computer games. Not her toys. She wouldn't even let me play with her damn dogs! I had to watch her play this game. It looked so fun, but she never let me play it. Well, it's 2017 now, f*cking a**hole. Now the game is mine. MINE! On my own computer. And I've got my own dog now! HA! HA HA HA!. This is probably the best educational game around, and while that isn't saying too much, it manages to be an extremely engaging and fun game, while also being very educational. As a child I sunk many, many hours into Zoombinis, and it taught me a lot about logic, problem solving and maths, and sparked lifelong interests in those areas - all while I enjoyed myself massively - it was easily one of my favourite games.The game is a series of 12 puzzles, each having four difficulty levels that range from simple to teach you the basics up to hard enough to make anyone, child or adult, think a bit. These puzzles are interesting, varied and have really engaging theming, with characters that bring the world to life. There is an overarching plot where the player is helping all the Zoombinis travel across the map to a new home, giving a long-term goal.The puzzles teach a variety of skills, all focusing on logic and problem solving, with a little mathematics thrown in. None of them fall into the usual educational game traps (quizzes, etc...), but rather teach by letting the player experiment, learn and apply their understanding in an iterative way - this is the best way to learn, and it is great fun. I never saw the game as 'an educational game' as a child, despite it teaching me a lot.Most of the puzzles involve sorting the Zoombinis (who are composed from a set of features - hair, eyes, nose, 'feet'), into groups or applying them to situations. For example, the first puzzle gives the player two bridges, each will reject Zoombinis with certain traits (that the other accepts) - the player must work out which traits are allowed on each bridge in order to get all the Zoombinis across. This is a simple start, but as the game goes on, the puzzles become deeper and more complex, with interesting solutions. The game slowly increases the difficulty, teaching the child how to think to solve the puzzles before hitting them with the hard stuff.The characters are incredbily entertaining, despite being a puzzle game with little real interaction, the game uses environment, animation and some dialogue to great effect to breathe life into it's characters - the Pizza Trolls are a favourite, and are timelessly entertaining. I still find myself saying 'MORE TOPPINGS' along with Arno.This is quite possibly the best game you could buy for a child, and the age range it targets is surprisingly large - the difficulties vary enough to allow children of all ages and abilities to enjoy and learn from it. At it's more difficult settings, this would even make a great alternative to a 'brain training' style game for adults - the puzzles get hard and interesting, no matter the age. This is a great game to play with children, (or for siblings to play together), although it is important to let children try, fail and learn from those failures, rather than pointing out the solutions.If you have played the game before, you may want to know how it compares. The update itself is mostly pretty negligable (which is mostly a good thing) - the most important part being that it runs happily on modern systems.A few quality of life enhancements have been made - some of the slower animations seem to have been sped up a little to reduce the delay, but unfortunately a few places are still as slow as they were (particularly the mirror machine, which retains it's annoying need to flip the switch on and back for each Zoombini). A few of the animations also look a little odd (the toads jumping in and out, for example), but these are minor issues, and mostly a problem that won't affect the average player, only the veteran coming back where the puzzles can be solved quickly enough to make the delay seem longer, or notice the animation difference.The graphics have been updated, but all remain the same at their core. Some places have been clarified a little (the placement spot for the Fleans has been made more obvious, the images in the mirror machine have been made clearer), but nothing changed in a substantial way. They look great, and retain all of the charm of the originals.The game retains it's original sound, with the great music that is upbeat, with a hint of mystery, and the wonderful narrator, who adds humour and a sense of grand importance to what you do in the game. The audio quality is below that of a modern game, but I think TERC were right to leave it as is, the original recordings were spot-on, and a new version would have struggled to live up to the originals.Just as fun as it used to be, a little prettier, and highly recommended. Easily worth the money.. This is the best educational game my nostalgic 3rd grade mind can remember. Math Blaster was close, but this game had it all. Problem solving, puzzles, planning, preparation. Everything.. Hip hip! Zoombinis! Hip hip! Zoombinis! The fun little game I grew up playing is now easy to find, install and play again!. MORE TOPPINGS. As a kid in the 90s, the original "Logical Journey of the Zoombinis" was a game I played regularly. As an adult, I still love the logic puzzles it presents to the player; it's still a challenge no matter how old you are. When I heard about the Kickstarter campaign to bring this game to the modern era, I immediately got on board, and I'm glad I did.The goal of the game is to bring groups of creatures called Zoombinis to their new homeland by navigating through mutiple puzzle levels. They all involve different types of logical thinking, though they never stray too far from the basic "trial and error" approach. Some involve set theory, multi-dimensional thinking, or recognizing patterns as examples. They start out simple (and if you're an older player, you may find the first couple difficulty levels tedious because of that), but as you successfully bring groups home, sections will increase in difficulty, and that's when the challenge really kicks in.If you've played the original and want to know the differences between that and the remake, the main difference is graphics. The original 16-bit artwork was great in the DOS era, but that was locked at 320x240 resolution (maybe 640x480, but regardless, it looks really tiny on today's monitors). The new version is made for bigger screens and the artwork has been totally redone, and it looks gorgeous. The Zoombini sprites have been updated, though many other in-game sprites are unchanged. The sound clips are all the same, though some have been shuffled around a bit and others are absent in places I would normally expect to hear them. It's a bit weird, but if you've never played the original it won't matter to you anyway.Overall, I highly recommend picking this up. It's great for kids as well as adults.UPDATE: I nominated this game for the 2017 Steam Awards for a category related to games that make you suspend disbelief. This game has plenty of that, since the premise and imagery are all very wacky.. Zoombinis, but with smoother graphics.. Fleens? You’re not fleens! Hmph... Whoever you are, MAKE ME A PIZZA!. Zoombini's is not only the best game I have ever played, but it's also a nostalgia trip back to the computer lab days of 2nd grade. The challenges are not very difficult to begin but as you progress your little blue peers in the game it becomes more difficult. I find it fun to make up stories and relationships between the Zoombini's and I have plenty of laughs and fun times watching them play and frolic once they have reached sanctuary in Zoombinivile. Zoombini's provides a progressive analogy for slavery and endentured labor, one that is apropos to the experiences of Harriet Tubman in the underground railroad. I felt envigorated freeing these precious morsels from a repressive regime and you should to. I play Zoombini's every day and I won't stop until I have freed all 400 Zoombini's. Hip Hip.......ZOOMBINI!
top of page
bottom of page
Comments