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Blink: A Bug's Light – Casual Game Review
Blink: A Bug's Light is a Casual game from DevDuck, LLC, first launched in 19th September 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 124+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Blink: A Bug's Light Stand Out
It's dusk, and the forest is growing dark. Fly around the forest as a firefly and blink your light to keep the forest alive!
Fill a circle on the screen with your firefly's light. If they match, the forest gets brighter! If they don't… watch out for bats!
UNLOCK all 16 playable characters by increasing your total number of blinks!
UNLOCK all 4 hand-drawn environments by achieving new high-scores!
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This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Blink: A Bug's Light is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd October 2019
Recent improvements include:
Fixed a bug where you could continue indefinitely after the in-app-purchase.
Fixed a typo in the tutorial.
One tiny balance tweak!
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Download & Availability
Blink: A Bug's Light is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
As an honest review, this is game is so much fun because of all the unlockables and the scoring progression. The art is gorgeous, and the music fits perfect. If you liked his game, check out his channel on YouTube: DevDuck. And no this is not a bot, we just genuinely think this is an incredible game.
We love this game. We found it through your youtube channel, and we are in love! But, we would like if you added some new backgrounds or characters, because once you unlock all of them, there isnt really a point. We know you were talking about adding a leaderboard, but this would still be a great addition to the game. For example, our high score is 1005, and we cant unlock anything. We still play it everyday though, so please add a new background or character to unlock.
Found the fame through your devlog while learning to mess with unity ourselves. We really like the game a lot, even though when we were watching we figured it wasnt the type of game for us as we dont like mobile gaming. However we found the gameplay loop phenomenal! A nice simple scheme and the unlocks challenging enough that they were fair but you could still get them with enough persistence. We wouldnt have minded an extra tier of each as we got everything. But we feel a nice sense of accomplishment for a small time invested which is something we cant say of most mobile experiences! Happy to support and will continue to do so.
Im here from one of your YouTube videos. Great app! Its simple, but a pretty creative/original thought. Seems like Im a little ways behind you as an indie developer, so its fun to see your progress and success. In the game, progression is a little hard for us. It feels like our bugs impact on forest brightness is too small. But perhaps Im just not good at the game yet. The first published game is a big achievement! Great work.
We really enjoy this game and its always bringing us back! Its just simple and a lot fun, anyone can pick it up and give it a go! Also, we really like the developer of the game and think he does great work. It was interesting to see how he developed this game, and his dedication to it. You should definitely give this game a try.
We found this app through your YouTube channel and we have it a shot. The more we played the more satisfying the game got. Great job.
Awesome game works great and all the characters are cool and with new things and characters to unlock in a update would be awesome so its a great game.
This is a great game for an upcoming indie developer! Keep up the work and looking forward to dauphin.
The art is awesome and the gameplay is on point its hard but not that hard easy but no that easy is good.
We downloaded it after seeing it on the developers YouTube channel, and it is way more addicting than we expected. We would like to see a feature like in the developers Snow Pounce game where you can turn on ads that play every so many rounds to show support. We know game devs get money for ads viewed, and we dont mind a 30 second break every 3-5 rounds. We love the game, and Ill be keeping an eye out for any new games by this developer.
We love dis game but we must know how we can avoid death! Pls help meh.
Great app and really fun. Looks really good.
One of the best quick to play games ever.
Great game! After watching your videos its hard to believe you did this alone! The game is very smooth and runs well. Maybe add in other components to the game to spice it up. Besides that, great job.
The light effects are very satisfying and they really add to the game.
Like in our title, we think a timer is necessary. Since the rounds end suddenly and really, out of the blue. We would recommend that we see how much time we have and so we would try to get the highest score and time. It would make it more replay able instead of a one time thing.
And adorable time waster that doesnt badger you with ads and paid unlocks. Beautiful pixel art. Lovely sound design. 10/10.
We have been watching DevDuck Devlogs for a while and loved this game. It had awesome progression and amazing graphics. Keep up the good work.
This game is great! We cannot believe it doesnt have more interest currently.
We really like how this game is played. A unique idea that is actually fun to play, with cool progression and a great art style. Our recommendations would be to have it more clear when you are going to lose (it feels a bit sudden) and also have some sort of audio cue associated with losing. Otherwise the game feels very complete and well done.
Just got this game after finding DevDucks YouTube channel (subscribe, its great). It is a really fun game and Im glad that we can play whether we have WiFi or not. Not being spammed with ads is also a plus. We think the point multipliers made the unlocks a little too easy though. We got a record of 340 and unlocked 5 things at the same time. We think if each bug required more points to unlock, it would be better because as it is we have skipped many upgrades with one round. Another thing is that sometimes it is hard to see bats coming when we play on our small phone screen. If they were brighter it would help. Other than that this game is great, especially for a free one.
We love the object of the game and how unique it is. Only problem we have is seeing where us bug is due to our finger being right over top of it. Maybe increase the range of where your finger can be placed in order to move the bug. For example our finger right below the bugs position can still control the bugs movement. If that makes sense. Keep up the great work.
This game is awesome! We love how it rarely gives you ads, we see an ad probably once every 15 minutes while playing this which is pretty good in terms of not being annoyed with ads. The only time we mainly watch ads is with the start with a better multiplier thing, which is honestly kinda op. We also like how the only thing thats paid for is a cosmetic item, so you cant just get an op item and just get to 1k+ easily. But the problem is, those little bugs that can kill you are annoying. We understand there has to be a way for you to die other than it getting too dark, but seriously? We mean, these bugs are perfectly in line with where you need to go, you just cant avoid them. The game is awesome, but it would be extremely awesome if you just made the bugs nerfed a bit, maybe so the bugs just fly around not inside of circles or in between you and the circle. But anyways, the game is pretty neat! The bugs are the only thing stopping us from a 5 star review.
We only have been playing for a bit and already have all the bugs except for 2 and all the environments, we only have a high score of 675! Just add some new maps and bugs and maybe have some different gameplay quirks depending on which map/bug you use, love watching the YouTube vids on it too.
We like this little game it's quite fun :).
Download this game after watching your video on YouTube about how you made your first indi game. We are personally looking to make our own game. Congratulations. We only have one small complaint .. We downloaded the game on our iPad and it has no sound. Immediately stop playing it. Sound is for us one of the most important aspects. And yes, we know that your game should have sound (we saw your video on YouTube) but it doesn't. It doesn't sound anything at all.
Blink is an awesome little game that just shows you that developing a game by yourself is hard but rewarding! The game plays smoothly and its chill and fun! Best regards, Another struggling solo developer.
We watch your channel and we like this game.
This game is very pleasing and we found ourselves playing it longer than we expected to. However, we find ourselves constantly losing pretty quickly. It is our understanding that if you fill the circle perfectly, it will generate light which keeps you alive. However, from our experience it is extremely difficult to perfectly fill the circle, and it was only happening one out of ten times at best. We wish we could advance to the harder stages of the game, but it seems as though we cant. Other than that, this game is very nice and we really enjoyed seeing the production process.
It takes no time at all to learn this game and yet it is really fun to pick up and play when you have a spare minute. The rounds are quick enough to play in a pretty short space of time, but it is also easy to lose time playing this game. We would highly recommend if you are looking for a fun, casual experience.
We loved the game and your devlogs! Its gameplay loop is amazing. However, the progression we feel is way to fast and too exponential and not linear enough. We havent been able to even test out our all of our new characters due to this(and backgrounds). If cosmetics mattered to us a bit more this would have been quite annoying but beware, it could annoy other players. Overall, great game dude.
This game is challenging yet relaxing. We love the forest vibes and the calming chord progression.
This Game Is Amazing Simply Amazing But The Controls Are Hard To us Hold then tap is really hard for us.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.02
- Size: 84.92 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: DevDuck, LLC
Last updated: 22nd October 2019 | Genre: Casual | Developer: DevDuck, LLC