Product Features Safari! HD
Connect 3 or more animal faces with a swipe of the finger
Choose from 3 modes of play: Survivor, Time Attack, and Endless
Enjoy colorful graphics and soothing African samba music
Submit high scores to OpenFeint
Optimized for large screens
Product Description Safari! HD
Safari! HD
Choose from three game modes
Safari! HD
The longer the chain, the more points you earn
An array of cute animal faces peer from your home screen just waiting to be linked with their friends. Go on a matching safari, and swipe your way through mazes of wild little beasts.
It's a Swiping Samba Safari
Quickly connect three or more faces by swiping your finger across a chain of matching animals. The longer the chain, the more points you earn. Connect only neighboring animals in rows, zigzags, or circles. Once you connect them, they disappear and new animals drop onto the board.
You'll enjoy the colorful graphics, and sweet African samba music playing as you go on your matching safari.
Wild or Tame Gameplay
There's a game mode for everyone. Choose to play any of the Safari! HD options: Survivor, Time Attack, and Endless. In Survivor mode, the clock is running, but you have the opportunity to add time--earn 2,000 points and your time bar increases 50%. In Time Attack mode, match as many animals as you can in 100 seconds. In Endless mode, relax, enjoy the samba, and play until your heart's content: no ticking clock, or loud buzzers interrupt this cool safari.
Check local and global high scores and submit your best. Safari! HD supports OpenFeint so you can Safari with friends. Safari hat is optional.
This version of Safari! HD was optimzed for devices with a large screen. If you do not have a device with a large screen, please consider installing the standard version (Safari!) which is specifically designed for small screens.
Technical Details
Size: 1.6MB
Version: 1.4
Developed By: grasslandgames
Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
Open network sockets.
Access information about networks.
PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Minimum Operating System: Android 2.0
Approximate Download Time: Less than 30 seconds
Customer Reviews Safari! HD
53 Reviews
5 star:
(17)
4 star:
(15)
3 star:
(10)
2 star:
(5)
1 star:
(6)
Average Customer Review
3.6 out of 5 stars (53 customer reviews)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fairly addictive and fun, July 13, 2011
By
Mark Ingham - See all my reviews
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Safari! HD (App)
The app description above does a good job of describing the game in its entirety: connect a chain of 3 or more matching animal faces by swiping your finger, there are 3 modes of play, and OpenFeint allows you to submit your high scores to compare globally with other players.
The game is challenging, colorful and fairly addictive for young kids (starting at age 5?) to adults; you could easily end up playing this an hour or more past your bedtime. Game play is smooth, no lagging, and completely stable in my experience. Sounds are top notch, including the soothing background African jungle noises. The game responded accurately to the swiping of my big thumb, even though I'm not wild about this type of touchscreen game, in which your finger covers key elements, making it hard to see what you're doing.
If you think larger animal tiles would be easier to select or view, try the non-HD Safari! version which is also free today (click this link: Safari!). It's identical except there are 6 X 6 tiles versus a 7 X 7 grid.
Every time you create a chain, the chain disappears, the animals above drop down to fill in the vacant spots, and new random animals fill in the vacated spots at the top. This is where strategy comes in - maneuver animals by taking away chains below, and thereby creating new longer chains. This is more easily practiced in Endless mode as opposed to the frenzied time pressure of the other modes.
The modes of play cater to two types of people: "Endless" mode for those who don't like time constraints, e.g. who like regular chess, and "Survivor" and "Time Attack" modes for those who like the thrill of time limits, e.g. who like speed chess.
Endless mode truly is endless - you just keep adding points as long as you want to keep playing, so it's not that challenging as far as accumulating points is concerned. Even when you think you've boxed yourself into a corner, and there are no possible chains left (of 3 or more animals), the board just re-shuffles and lets you play on for eternity. This mode is good for allowing you to slow down and practice strategy for the other modes. It's only challenging if you make it your goal to create longer and longer chains and thereby earn points faster.
After frustrating trial and error in Endless mode, I found that you have just over 31 seconds to finish connecting a chain after starting one; after that, you just get credit for as far as you got. This is plenty of time even for long chains, so don't dawdle.
You earn more points the longer the chain. In fact, each additional animal increases the points PER animal by 10, so the total points for the chain increase non-linearly and more like exponentially. So 3 animals earn 3 X 30 = 90 points, 4 animals earn 4 X 40 = 160 points, and so on. I verified this all the way to a chain of 19 critters (19 X 190 = 3610 points), which is fun and challenging to accomplish considering the board has 49 animals at a time.
Another way to view this is that the points per additional animal in the chain increase by 20 each time; thus the RATE of increase is constant. So a chain of 3 (the minimum allowed) is 90 points, a chain of 4 is 70 more or 160 points, a chain of 5 is 90 more or 250 points, a chain of 6 is 110 more or 360 points, and so on. To go from a chain of 18 to 19, add 370 additional points to get 3610.
Hope I didn't bore you with the math, but for those who like charts, venture on! (Motorola Droid)
Animals in Chain / Total Points / Points per Animal / Points for Last Animal
3 90 30
4 160 40 70
5 250 50 90
6 360 60 110
7 490 70 130
8 640 80 150
9 810 90 170
10 1000 100 190
11 1210 110 210
12 1440 120 230
13 1690 130 250
14 1960 140 270
15 2250 150 290
16 2560 160 310
17 2890 170 330
18 3240 180 350
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Connect 3 or more animal faces with a swipe of the finger
Choose from 3 modes of play: Survivor, Time Attack, and Endless
Enjoy colorful graphics and soothing African samba music
Submit high scores to OpenFeint
Optimized for large screens
Product Description Safari! HD
Safari! HD
Choose from three game modes
Safari! HD
The longer the chain, the more points you earn
An array of cute animal faces peer from your home screen just waiting to be linked with their friends. Go on a matching safari, and swipe your way through mazes of wild little beasts.
It's a Swiping Samba Safari
Quickly connect three or more faces by swiping your finger across a chain of matching animals. The longer the chain, the more points you earn. Connect only neighboring animals in rows, zigzags, or circles. Once you connect them, they disappear and new animals drop onto the board.
You'll enjoy the colorful graphics, and sweet African samba music playing as you go on your matching safari.
Wild or Tame Gameplay
There's a game mode for everyone. Choose to play any of the Safari! HD options: Survivor, Time Attack, and Endless. In Survivor mode, the clock is running, but you have the opportunity to add time--earn 2,000 points and your time bar increases 50%. In Time Attack mode, match as many animals as you can in 100 seconds. In Endless mode, relax, enjoy the samba, and play until your heart's content: no ticking clock, or loud buzzers interrupt this cool safari.
Check local and global high scores and submit your best. Safari! HD supports OpenFeint so you can Safari with friends. Safari hat is optional.
This version of Safari! HD was optimzed for devices with a large screen. If you do not have a device with a large screen, please consider installing the standard version (Safari!) which is specifically designed for small screens.
Technical Details
Size: 1.6MB
Version: 1.4
Developed By: grasslandgames
Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
Open network sockets.
Access information about networks.
PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Minimum Operating System: Android 2.0
Approximate Download Time: Less than 30 seconds
Customer Reviews Safari! HD
53 Reviews
5 star:
(17)
4 star:
(15)
3 star:
(10)
2 star:
(5)
1 star:
(6)
Average Customer Review
3.6 out of 5 stars (53 customer reviews)
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Create your own review
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fairly addictive and fun, July 13, 2011
By
Mark Ingham - See all my reviews
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Safari! HD (App)
The app description above does a good job of describing the game in its entirety: connect a chain of 3 or more matching animal faces by swiping your finger, there are 3 modes of play, and OpenFeint allows you to submit your high scores to compare globally with other players.
The game is challenging, colorful and fairly addictive for young kids (starting at age 5?) to adults; you could easily end up playing this an hour or more past your bedtime. Game play is smooth, no lagging, and completely stable in my experience. Sounds are top notch, including the soothing background African jungle noises. The game responded accurately to the swiping of my big thumb, even though I'm not wild about this type of touchscreen game, in which your finger covers key elements, making it hard to see what you're doing.
If you think larger animal tiles would be easier to select or view, try the non-HD Safari! version which is also free today (click this link: Safari!). It's identical except there are 6 X 6 tiles versus a 7 X 7 grid.
Every time you create a chain, the chain disappears, the animals above drop down to fill in the vacant spots, and new random animals fill in the vacated spots at the top. This is where strategy comes in - maneuver animals by taking away chains below, and thereby creating new longer chains. This is more easily practiced in Endless mode as opposed to the frenzied time pressure of the other modes.
The modes of play cater to two types of people: "Endless" mode for those who don't like time constraints, e.g. who like regular chess, and "Survivor" and "Time Attack" modes for those who like the thrill of time limits, e.g. who like speed chess.
Endless mode truly is endless - you just keep adding points as long as you want to keep playing, so it's not that challenging as far as accumulating points is concerned. Even when you think you've boxed yourself into a corner, and there are no possible chains left (of 3 or more animals), the board just re-shuffles and lets you play on for eternity. This mode is good for allowing you to slow down and practice strategy for the other modes. It's only challenging if you make it your goal to create longer and longer chains and thereby earn points faster.
After frustrating trial and error in Endless mode, I found that you have just over 31 seconds to finish connecting a chain after starting one; after that, you just get credit for as far as you got. This is plenty of time even for long chains, so don't dawdle.
You earn more points the longer the chain. In fact, each additional animal increases the points PER animal by 10, so the total points for the chain increase non-linearly and more like exponentially. So 3 animals earn 3 X 30 = 90 points, 4 animals earn 4 X 40 = 160 points, and so on. I verified this all the way to a chain of 19 critters (19 X 190 = 3610 points), which is fun and challenging to accomplish considering the board has 49 animals at a time.
Another way to view this is that the points per additional animal in the chain increase by 20 each time; thus the RATE of increase is constant. So a chain of 3 (the minimum allowed) is 90 points, a chain of 4 is 70 more or 160 points, a chain of 5 is 90 more or 250 points, a chain of 6 is 110 more or 360 points, and so on. To go from a chain of 18 to 19, add 370 additional points to get 3610.
Hope I didn't bore you with the math, but for those who like charts, venture on! (Motorola Droid)
Animals in Chain / Total Points / Points per Animal / Points for Last Animal
3 90 30
4 160 40 70
5 250 50 90
6 360 60 110
7 490 70 130
8 640 80 150
9 810 90 170
10 1000 100 190
11 1210 110 210
12 1440 120 230
13 1690 130 250
14 1960 140 270
15 2250 150 290
16 2560 160 310
17 2890 170 330
18 3240 180 350