bontegames

Hi! I'm Bart Bonte, a Belgian independent game designer and bontegames.com is where I blog about new interesting browser and mobile games. My own games are all in the left column (or at the bottom of this page on mobile). More info about me and my games on bartbonte.com.
Get in touch: email - twitter - facebook - youtube - instagram

March 24, 2014

a new bontegame: 25

Time for a new bontegame! It's a small puzzler I made in between a larger project, it's called 25 and you can play it in your browser or get it as a free app for Android on Google Play here. A version for iOS has also been submtted and I'll let you know when it gets approved by Apple.
So how to play 25? Use the cursor keys (in the browser) or swipe the screen (on mobile) to move all the blocks and push same numbered block together to level up. Red blocks will block you, match 3 or more red blocks in a row (horizontally or vertically) to remove them. I'm curious to find out your best score, so make sure to leave a comment with your score, or use the built in twitter button to tweet your score, I'll be monitoring those tweets too! I hope you enjoy 25 and if you do, please share it, rate it and tweet it, cheers!

99 comments:

Anonymous said...

First!

Rava said...

New bontegame???
Yeah! Let's be FIRST!!
:D

Rava said...

Ahah!

palat said...

Excellent, this is sooo going to be my new addiction!

Anonymous said...

Lovely on Anroid and it's free which is lovely too :-)

Anonymous said...

1771! Is that any good?

Anonymous said...

2304, but mostly by luck as I had some problems at the beginning to figure out how the blocks are moving

eightoclock said...

3826. It is a fun game with just a bit more complexity than 2048, but also with a bigger board.

Anonymous said...

2841!

tam said...

586! but I was playing with my left hand :P

tam said...

586 again... I bet it's quite difficult to reach the same result again and again, eh?!

Angela said...

1395

Tom said...

Scored 2692 on my first attempt.

Anonymous said...

Hey great! Now if only I could find the rules of the game so i could play...

:/

Anonymous said...

Again it's cropped on firefox. This is really annoying

Anonymous said...

Hi Bart, thx for sharing!
Had no problems with firefox, scored 3285. :)

Anonymous said...

3839

Grizix said...

2984 with a 8 as higher digit.

jj said...

3329

Fee said...

4449! I love this!

Anonymous said...

AHHHH damn you Bart. It took me forever to finally beat 2048 now I have to play this until I win. Great game but maybe give a "warning you will need redbull" tomorrow the day before the release

Anonymous said...

4673! Excellent game

Anonymous said...

5788, highest level 9

Anonymous said...

Hi Bart
Excellent game 3124 first play

madandyb said...

Got as far as 2630.

SilkeH6 said...

First time playing it: 1306 with as highest number a 7. It's hard because there is a very slow reaction time. The blocks only move after you've pushed a second time and then you easily lose sight of where you were supposed to go, since the second push is also counted.

Bart said...

Hi Silke, the slow reaction you experience is not normal. Maybe there's another taxing process running on your pc?

Anonymous said...

Where'd the comment go with the link to the article about clone games?

Bart said...

URLs get most of the time eaten by my spam filter. I hope you're not suggesting this is a clone.

tam said...

My best score so far: 5086 with a 9 tile and having fun! :)

Anonymous said...

Sorry Bart, I got to 2382 before I got bored. It seemed like I could go on forever if I cared to. I like your games a lot, but this time it seems like you were influenced a lot by the recent crop of "combine the numbers" games. I think your own original game ideas are better and more fun. But thank you for all your games.

Robin said...

2038 Level 7 my first time playing!

Wow said...

Anonymous 05:23 and Tam, post a video!!

Anonymous said...

3862
Awesome game! This game could be very addicting, so I'm going to run away from my computer right now or I'll never get anything done for the rest of the week.1

4tje said...

1230 on first try, but I had the same problems as Silke, Bart! =( Not sure why...

tam said...

@Wow:
Sorry! No video :(
But I have a print screen (useless for you, source of pride for me):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o2une2wma3yf2p9/BartBonte%2025.JPG

ThePerson said...

On the computer, SilkeH6, mine's also reeeally slow. My computer just sent me a message saying if I continue with this page, my computer will become unresponsive. Don't want that. Looks like I won't be able to play this one, but I'd really love too. None the less, thanks for the game Bart.

Riiick said...

If my maths is right you would need to combine 16,777,216 tiles to get a 25 tile!

Anonymous said...

@Wow: sorry, neither video, nor a screenshot ...
good luck, Anonymous 05:23 :)

Anonymous said...

@Riiick
I think you stopped one spot too soon...each tile past 2 = the previous tiles * 2 + 2... so to get a 3 you need 2*2+2=6 and to get a 5 you need 2*14+2=30 and so on. So for a 25 you need 2*16777214+2= 33,554,430 not to mention all of the other close to 25 numbers you would have to make plus the reds. Given the minimum connections at .1 sec per it would take over a month to beat this game unless later the game starts dropping higher numbers. I scored 6290 so far

Cyn said...

http://www.angelfoodcomic.com/wp-content/uploads/I-have-no-idea-what-I-am-doing.jpg

:/

Anonymous said...

nice tam & 05:23
The good luck worked:
http://s9.postimg.org/iprctcl9r/twenty_five_6607.png

Anonymous said...

So far, best is 4450.

Anonymous said...

5641!!! My best score with a 9 as higher digit...

Marie said...

5027!

Anonymous said...

5910 :)

Anonymous said...

Now, I'm still excited: 8320, lv 10!
I can't believe it! ... And I can't concentrate anymore - my brain is empty.
Good luck to all, Anonymous 05:23 :))

Anonymous said...

@Anonymous 01:02
Then your lucky. All bontegames links are in my case

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/4918/oa1c.png

Anonymous said...

5034!

NiGHTcapD said...

First time playing it, I got a 10.
Second time playing it, I got a 10.
I'm in the middle of my third runthrough and I am loving this game. (You can tell I don't care too much about score, more about maximum tile.)
Bart Bonte, if you're reading this, I challenge you to make this game on Puzzlescript. You can, of course, use any existing number combine games to help you get your base code (Puzzlescript Threes is likely a good choice to begin working from). If you can showcase many Puzzlescript games, and you can make your own non-Puzzlescript puzzle games, I think it should be no problem.

Anonymous said...

1313

Louping said...

7768
Argh ! I'm exhausted...
I think the 10 block wasn't so far but "game over" : I miss it...
I'll try again but not now : I didn't think a game was so long.

Excellent addictive game !!!

deodato said...

Yayy 5329 with a 9 and a 8, I want a 10 !! (so addictive, tx Bart, waiting for the iOS one)

Emily said...

726! (First time) Addictive!

Emily said...

5856! (one 9 and one 8)

Joshua Raven said...

such a great concept - great fun too!

Bart said...

There's now a FREE version of the game for iPhone and iPad too:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/25-game/id847466186?mt=8
Cheers!

dyork said...

Do not like. Mindless play inevitably ending in death. I'll wait for something more interesting.

Louping said...

Yeeees !
I've got the 10 !!!
my best score 12619

Et vive l'autosave ;)

Anonymous said...

Congrats @Louping! You are excellent!!! :D

Benny C. said...

7117. I think there's not so much motivation though when theres no final point or endgoal. 25 is the theoretical upper limit but practically its almost impossible so

Emily said...

Mr. Bonte,
I'm not sure what I did that caused it, but there appears to be an invisible block on my board. I moving the blocks around, but no matter what arrow I push, no block moves into the spot, even though it is empty. New blocks come out of that spot, making me think that there are blocks there, they're just not visible for some reason.

Gamergrrl54 said...

Awesome game Bart! Super addicting and really fun!

Emily said...

You can continue your game? Awesome!

Emily said...

Okay, phantom block is back, and this time it caused me to lose!

Bart said...

@Emily Is that on mobile or in the browser? Can you send me a screenshot please (bontegames@gmail.com) Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Sorry. I usually love barts games. I tend also to be able to solve them. but this game tells me nothing. Nothing at all. I do not know what to do, and after an hour I still do not. When you press the arrow keys, it is random which numbers move? There is no sense or logic. Just some numbers that are higher and some red cubes Arrggg ....:-p I was so happy when I saw that there was a new Bart Bonte game. I went jogging clothes. Downloaded food, candy and soda because now there having fun .... but no .... I got a long nose.

Bart said...

Ok let me try to explain more clearly:
When you push an arrow key, all blocks move together in that direction, until they hit a wall.
With each move a new block appears on the board.
It is your mission to push a 1 on a 1 to form a 2 block.
A 2 and a 2 form a 3 block and so on.
The higher blocks you make, the more points you get.
But there are also red blocks, without a number that will get in your way.
When you align 3 or more red blocks horizontally or vertically they will disappear.
I hope the game is clear now :) Cheers!

Unknown said...

Best so far is 18998, still trying to get that 11 block. Has anyone managed to do that yet?

Bart said...

Wow 18998 is really amazing! You should tweet your score! Best so far is 14267 :)

Emily said...

Mr. Bonte,
It's one the browser, and I sent you an email.

Seaduckie said...

Love this game! Though I'm not really good at it. But I'll keep on trying to improve my highscore of 2723.

Francesca said...

Bart, I have been coming to your website for the past 8 years playing the games you list as well as your own super clever and creative games.
I finally have a smart phone and my first download is '25'! Very addictive and will keep me occupied for hours. Thank you!

tam said...

My new record: 7264!
And of course I've been playing every day :)
So relaxing! Thank you, Bart.

Anonymous said...

My highest number is only 8. Highest score is only 2799

m. said...

highest number is only nine...oh well, just keep playing.

Anonymous said...

8897 with a 10

Angela said...

current best score on android: 6136. Highest tile: 9. I wish I could get to that 10!!

Maybe if there was an "undo" button... you could go back and figure out where you went wrong and see if there is a way to win without having to start over!

Anonymous said...

I did 11654 :)

Anonymous said...

10691 with a 10.
the 11 eludes me still.

Anonymous said...

my highscore is 17195 and i got level 11, but i don't think anyone will ever hit level 25. that's a bit frustrating for such an addicting game.

Xyzzy said...

Finally got the elusive 11 block with a high score of 17820. Huzzah!

dia said...

best 40697. I have 13 or 14. and no idea how complete this

Anonymous said...

I know this is an old(er) game now, but I'm still addicted! Has anyone managed to get a 14 tile? My best is 86,382 with a 13 tile.

Unknown said...

13 tile and 100000+ score but I think that the game is imposible...

Reka said...

I got 29025, close to having a 12.

Sukimoe said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Sukimoe said...

Ms Highscore is 18727 with the 11 .. Almost had the 12 😺

Anonymous said...

first try i got 1219 points.

SapphireMind said...

Ok, first: this game is crazy - each level is exponentially harder - I'm not positive it is possible to win it. But dammit, I'm trying. And have been trying for a longer period of time than I would like to admit.

Second: there is a way to do a save point, it requires entirely too much work and if you lose track or forget to do it correctly at the correct time, you're screwed and have to go back to the beginning.

Third: Consider putting in an actual save feature, especially considering point number one? Or add another row of cells? As I said, I'm not sure it is actually possible to win, based on the distribution of red boxes, number of cells and the exponential way you have to ascend.

Lastly: I'm really damned stubborn. I'm at 15, with a score of 387451. I have a decent save currently and I see a way forward to maybe to be able to get to 16. I can get to 12-13 reliably and quickly when I screw up my save point, but past that.....ugh. I wish I didn't have compulsive tendencies when it comes to games like this. You may literally be able to drive me mad with a game that is impossible to solve.

Anonymous said...

A nice game. I like it. Its very fun too. My best score is 1006

Unknown said...

7001! Thx for your games and this highscore page !

Unknown said...

My best score was 48438. I ended with a 12 tile and an 11 tile with a 9 the next highest. I'm curious if it is even possible to get to a '25' tile, since there are only 25 places in all, I feel like it is impossible, because every tile would be in use with no red and no place for the combining tile, even if you had all the numbers lined up perfectly??? Bart... do you have a comment? Is it possible to reach a 25 tile? Do you know what the highest score and/or Tile number really is??

Bart said...

The win with a '25' time is only theoretically, the joy should be in the journey ;)
I only track highscores on the iOS version, the leaderbord shows highest score of 93110.
But the comment of SapphireMind here above speaks of a score of 387451 (with a '15' tile).

Maybe I should rework the game one day to have a leaderboard on all platforms and allow for save points...

Jade xo said...

This is such an addictive game !! Ive been playing for a month now and highest is 7230 with tile 9. But I want to get to 10 sooo bad, my fingers are cramping lol! Thx bart

Unknown said...

How do you save?
It is boring to always start all over from the beginning.

Elena said...

Love this game. I spend way too much time on it and so far have only managed to get to tile 11 with score of 25964. Hope more games like this (never-ending ) come out ��

SapphireMind said...

Yes please on the save points and leaderboard for everyone. I am embarrassingly still addicted to this game. Save point and support for those of use playing on the web and don't believe in apple products!

GeeRov said...

Best score is 55000, with a 12 tile. Still working for the 25!

 

If you are you looking for a solution or a walkthrough for one of the game links, please have a look in the comments.
Are you on facebook? Bontegames is too! Like the bontegames facebook page: