''Fractal: Make Blooms Not War'' is a
puzzle video game
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H ...
by
Cipher Prime
Cipher Prime is a video game development studio based in Philadelphia. The company was founded in 2008. Cipher Prime is best known for its titles Auditorium (2008), Fractal (2010), and Splice (2012).
On February 27, 2012, Cipher Prime launched ...
. The game involves pushing hexagonal fragments together to form large hexagons and chain reactions.
''Fractal'' was released by Cipher Prime via their website on May 26, 2010, for
OS X
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and
Microsoft Windows
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.
Gameplay
''Fractals gameplay revolves around pushing hexagons into seven-hexagon clusters, or "blooms", which earn the player points. ''Fractal'' features three gameplay modes, campaign, arcade, and puzzle. In campaign mode, the player progresses by earning enough points to clear each level. Over the course of the thirty-level campaign, the player encounters different kinds of power-up hexagons with special abilities (hexagons that cause explosions, or that destroy all adjacent hexagons) that help the player earn points. In arcade mode, the player works toward setting a high score by surviving for as long as possible. In the fifty-level puzzle mode, the player is tasked with completing objectives in a limited number of moves. Each series of challenges in puzzle mode (
Koch,
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,
Sierpinski,
Julia
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,
Mandelbrot, and
Dragon
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) is named after a different
fractal
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set.
Reception
The game has a Metacritic score of 84% based on 4 critic reviews.
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2010 video games
Android (operating system) games
IOS games
Linux games
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Puzzle video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Single-player video games
Strategy video games
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