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Love Balls is a smartphone hit (and it’s totally safe for work)
Well, it was safe until I started drawing weird shapes
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I like games featuring balls.
I didn’t realize that until one of my colleagues pointed out that the most recent game I played was called Love Balls. My favorite game ever is Katamari Damacy, which involves rolling an inexplicably sticky ball around magical landscapes to collect objects, animals and humans.
The more I think about it, the more evidence I found. One of the best games I’ve played on the Nintendo Switch is Super Bomberman R (Bomberman’s hands! His head gear! And ALL THE BOMBS!). My all-time favorite arcade game is Taiko no Tatsujin which has a… round-shaped drum? OK, that might be a stretch, but still.
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(On the other hand, I'm really bad at football or basketball or… handball… so I suppose there’s a limit to my love of ball games.)
Still, it’s only appropriate that my first Twitch stream would feature Love Balls -- an apparently Chinese mobile game that’s doing really well around the world.
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My task was to reunite two lovesick balls using the power of... physics!
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