iPhone, meet Frenzic

While Apple may not be going crazy over games on the iPhone in a first-party fashion, it doesn’t mean that others aren’t taking up the slack. The folks over at Iconfactory and ARTIS have ported their fantastic puzzle game Frenzic to the web with the help of Javascript guru Robert Neagu.

If you’re not familiar with Frenzic, let’s just say it’s a game that was born to be played on the iPhone. Essentially, a wedge of any of three colors (purple, green, or orange) will appear in the middle; you can assign it to any of the six open circles (as long as a wedge of the same position isn’t already filled). When you fill up a circle, it empties out. If you manage to create a circle of a single color, you score extra points, and there are three special powers you can acquire as well.

Frenzic plays well on the web, though I noticed that it sometimes felt as though I had to hit a circle more than once for it to show up (I’ll blame the Internet for that). According to the developers, this is just a temporary solution until the official iPhone SDK shows up, at which point: native Frenzic for everyone!

Category: Software

Posted by Dan Moren on Nov 19 2007, 4:49 PM ET

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