Glu reveals its first Android mobile game
Bonsai Blast looks a tad familiar though
Glu Mobile has been quick off the blocks announcing its first Android mobile game, the same day as the unveiling of the first handset to run Google's new operating system.
The game's called Bonsai Blast, and it's going to be exclusive to Android phones, and available through Google's Android Market store.
However, the game itself doesn't exactly break new ground. It's one of those match-three ball-popping games, where you fire coloured balls at other coloured balls to make them disappear.
In other words: Zuma.
Still, it's a fun genre, and Glu has proved on mobile that it can do the business with these kind of games.
Bonsai Blast will have "more than 20 levels" (we'd hope a lot more, to be honest), a mixture of touch and tilt controls, and some gameplay variations involving ricochets, tunnelled chains and swappable shooter locations (you may remember these from Glu's existing Poppin' Panda mobile game).
"By bringing together the technological innovation of Android with the creative and development expertise of Glu, we are now able to provide consumers with a great new gaming experience," says Alex Galvagni, senior VP of global production and chief technology officer at Glu.
It might be a stretch to describe another Zuma-inspired puzzler as technologically innovative, but Bonsai Blast does at least look nice. We expect it to be available when the first Android handset - the T-Mobile G1 - goes on sale.
