Bubble Factory is a strategic game, that requires dexterity. Try to free big ball chunks at once to get the highest score.
Let's Start
Choose a mode.
Rush:
The playing field is moving down continuously. Be fast and destroy as many balls as possible. When the playing field touches the laser you lose the round.
Zen:
Take your time and plan your moves. The playing field only moves when you shoot a ball.
Game Objective
The highest score wins! You get points for every ball you destroy. Larger groups of balls generate more points!
Gameplay
Each game consists of three rounds. Every player has the same playing field. Try to free big ball chunks at once. As soon as you shoot at the stars, you end the round.
Balls
The bubble factory has many different kind of balls.
Colored balls can be destroyed when you make a chain of at least 3 balls. All balls of the chain will fall down and give you points.
Gears cannot be destroyed. But they will fall down if you destroy all balls that hold them. You cannot stick balls to them. Shooting a ball at a gear will result in the ball falling down.
Robots are trapped in glass balls. Free them and they will reward you! Destroy all balls that hold their glasses to free them. They then will give you a charge for your special, which is displayed in the bottom left corner. TapClick it to use it.
Star balls are the level solver. Shoot one of them to finish the current round. All remaining balls will fall down and will be added to your score.
Rainbow balls are a special, charged by robots. They are the same as colored balls. But they count as any color that will create a combination with your current shot.
Black holes are a special, charged by robots. They suck in everything around them. They can be the solution to some tricky parts of a level.
Sliders are a special, charged by robots. They move the whole playing field upwards - up to the point where you hit it with them.
Rust
Some balls are very rusted and do not work properly. To be able to destroy them, you have to remove the rust first. Include them in chains and one layer of rust will be removed.
Rust can be a very hard part of a level. But the crazy thing is, you can influence how much rust your opponents will get in the next round. Shoot a chain with every shot and create a long streak. For every shot of a streak one layer of rust will be added to every opponent. If you miss or do not destroy balls, you have to start again - the so far gathered rust remains.
You can see in the result screen:
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how much rust you give to your opponents
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and how much they give you
Handling
To shoot a ball hold down your fingerclick the mouse on the playing field. A laser will appear (1). It indicates where the ball will hit. Drag your fingermouse to move the laser. Move it down to the very bottom to cancel the shot.
Left of your current ball (2) is shown the next ball. TapClick it to swap it with the current ball.
At the very left (3) is the display of specials. If you gained one, it will be shown here. TapClick it to use it.
End of Game
The game ends after three rounds. All points are added up and the player with the highest score wins the game.
Revenge
All players can play at the same time, so the fastest player can start the revenge.
Bubble Factory as a puzzle
In this section the differences between puzzle and normal game are explained. If you do not know how to play the game, please check the explanaition above first.
Puzzles are played without opponents. Your objective is to get the highest score possible by playing one Zen level. To maximize your score, there should be many balls remaining in the field, when you shoot for the stars. There are no other differences to the normal game - free robots to get specials and drill a lane through the balls to the stars.
There is a small difference - in the puzzle you do not have to take care of the rust counter. You only play one level, so no rust is collected.
Puzzles have a timer! In the upper middle of the screen is displayed how much time is left. If you run out of time, the puzzle counts as not solved.
With every retry on a day you get the same puzzle, like everyone else as well. So when you try again, you already know the tricky part and you can try to avoid it.
Enjoy the puzzle!
