Overripe

Shapes appear and start growing. Let one reach full size and it costs you a life. That is the whole game, and the trick is in one detail: the biggest shape on screen is always the oldest one, and always the closest to costing you. So the greedy play and the surviving play are the same play - you never have to choose between scoring and staying alive. Take them in the order they arrived and the score compounds. THE RUN Every wave lasts eighteen seconds and ends in a push, the last six running at double speed. Then the board clears and you pick a card. You get one after every single wave, three to choose from. They start small - the whole game runs slower, or part of the board freezes solid, or every pop throws out a fragment that kills what it hits. Take the same card again and it gets stronger. New kinds unlock at wave 5 and wave 10, so getting there is its own reward. The cards talk to…