iPhone Game of the Week: One-Dot Enemies
Today’s iPhone Game of the Week is a simple one. Created by Kenji Eno and developer Studio-Kura, One-Dot Enemies is the minimalist’s approach to wasting time.
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t strangely fun and addictive.There is not much to this game, if it can be labeled a game at all. I find One-Dot Enemies more of an interactive art piece as opposed to a game. Whereas some artists would use a paint brush on canvas, Kenji Eno chose to use the iPhone as his artistic vehicle.
One-Dot Enemies is set on a pure white backdrop with little bleeps and bloops as the soundtrack. As the name suggests, the enemies are a single black pixel floating among the eye-straining whiteness. All the player has to do is touch the pixels as they move to destroy them.
There is no failure in One-Dot Enemies, but in turn, there is no victory either. The piece never ends until the player stops and goes back to the title screen. To get to the title screen, the player simply shakes the iPhone. Once back at the title screen, the player can tap on the RESULT button to view a virtual toilet.
Within the toilet are all the one-dot enemies the player has destroyed during their play through, and the player also gets the option of flushing all the enemies down the toilet. It’s a simple process yet feels extremely rewarded. Take that, you god damn dots! After flushing, One-Dot Enemies shows the player how many enemies have been destroyed all around the world. Right now, the number is 14,273,835, but it’s growing every second.
Now go and download One-Dot Enemies from the App Store. Don’t worry, it’s free.
