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New Games for Kindle: Triple Town, Solitaire, and Minesweeper

The newest game app for the Kindle — a strategic town-building game called Triple Town — has just been launched by Spry Fox, a startup gaming software company co-founded by David Edery, former worldwide portfolio manager of XBox LIVE Arcade, and Daniel Cook, author of Lost Garden, the popular game design blog. I want to say “Minesweeper” meets “Sim City,” but I would probably just be revealing how out of touch I am with gaming, on the Kindle or anywhere else.
One thing is sure as we prepare for the retail holiday season: Amazon is getting more and more active with respect to the kinds of games we might expect to see in a Kindle App store, while keeping quiet about exactly how it will roll out the App Store itself or how the Kindle App Store will interface with the Android App Store on which Amazon is also at work. As we noted yesterday in our post on wireless Audible.com audiobooks downloads to the Kindle 3 and Kindle wi-fi only, the Kindle is quietly becoming a go-to content delivery device for a lot more than just ebooks.
Here’s the product description for Triple Town:
Triple Town is an original strategy game in which you try to grow the greatest possible city. The larger the city you build, the more points you score. You build your city by matching three or more game-pieces: combine three grasses to make a flower, three flowers to make a bush, three bushes to make a tree… until you’ve filled the board with houses, cathedrals and castles. Along the way, you’ll have to outwit evil barbarians and wizards who will try to block your progress.

This is a game that can be played for minutes or hours at a time. You’ll have to think several turns ahead if you want to avoid inevitable gridlock as unfinished buildings, barbarians and wizards start to pile up. And sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll be helped along by a magical crystal (which combines with anything) or a powerful bomb (which wipes nuisances off the board). But luck won’t save you forever!

How large can you grow your dream city before the board fills and the game ends?

Here’s the news release for Triple Town:
SPRY FOX LAUNCHES ITS FIRST GAME FOR KINDLE
Triple Town now available exclusively for Kindle
KIRKLAND, Wa., – October 15, 2010 – Independent game developer, Spry Fox  today announced that Triple Town for Kindle, an original puzzle game developed exclusively for Amazon Kindle, is now available to Kindle customers.
“We built Triple Town from the ground up for the Kindle device,” said David Edery, co-founder, Spry Fox.  “We think Kindle customers will enjoy this original and unusually deep puzzle game, which can be played for minutes or hours at a time.”
Triple Town is an original game in which players try to match game pieces in order to build a city. Players must think several steps ahead and develop a strategy to avoid pitfalls and win the race against time.”

“We’re excited to see a start-up company like Spry Fox create a unique game using the Kindle Development Kit,” said Mike Nash, vice president, Amazon Kindle. “Triple Town is an easy game to learn providing hours of fun for Kindle customers.”
Triple Town is available in the Kindle Store to U.S. customers and can be purchased from Amazon.com or directly on the Kindle Device for $2.99. For more information about Triple Town for Kindle, please  click here. 
Spry Fox, based in Kirkland, Wa., was co-founded by David Edery, former worldwide portfolio manager of XBox LIVE Arcade, and Daniel Cook, author of Lost Garden, the popular game design blog. 

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