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Jelly Splash Beginners Guide (Part 1)

18 Nov 2013 by EBongo

Those of us old enough to remember Columns on Sega know that the debate on "derivative" puzzle games, and games themselves is as old as... well ... games. There will certainly be those who rag on Jelly Splash for it's similarity to Candy Crush. I'd actually liken it to the lesser known (and far better in my opinion) Puzzle Craft - but regardless, it is hard to argue that it is forging new territory in the match three genre. All that said, it is a decent game in its own right with cutesy art, and satisfying puzzles that seem to skew a touch less torturous than Candy Crush (which is a welcome change). If you are interested in break from crushin , Jelly Splash might be right up your alley. Read on for some beginner tips on splashing some jellies.

Your goal in Jelly Splash is to connect friendly-faced flamboyantly colored jellies in groups of 3 or more to explode in what is hopefully a painless joy-filled event. Connecting more than 6 jellies in this way will create a random Super Jelly , which functions similarly to the "Striped Candies" of Candy Crush Saga. Connecting to these Super Jellies in a future match allows you to take out a whole row or column, and joining more than one just increases this effect.

What time is it? It's Splash Time!

Finishing a level with left over moves causes a Sugar Cru.. *cough* I mean Splash Time . Splash time ticks off your remaining moves a few at a time and converts them to Super Jellies. Jellies splashed in this way generate 2500 point plus the point generated from the rows and columns they clear.

Pro Tip When going for a really high score, banking a bunch of moves for Splash Time is not always enough to get you there. Very large combos (~8+) will net you more points than a Splash Time Super Jelly. Also remember that any Super Jellies you leave on the board will explode and generate points before Splash Time begins, so you can bank so points that way as well.

• Playing Jelly Splash

How do I connect the Jellys?

For Mobile Users:  Tap, hold, and then drag your finger over a group of 3 or more Jellys of the same color.  For Computer Us...

What's the objective of the game?

It's your job to free the Jellys from the evil that is invading  Jelly Land! Connect lines of Jellys to solve 500+ levels wit...

There are four ways to unlock Gates: 1. Asking friends; tap/click on the  'Unlock' next to the gate and then 'Ask Friends'.&...

Stars are earned by achieving a pre-set score on a level.  The higher the score, the more Stars you win, up to a maximum of three ...

Keys - how do I get them?

Keys are used to unlock gates to new levels.  Obtain them by asking friends; tap/click on the gate and select a "+" ...

The Wooden Wheel

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Making a Splash: Jelly Splash Launches Today

Today we’re very happy to announce the release of Jelly Splash. We announced the game just over three weeks ago at Casual Connect, and now lucky iPhone and iPad owners can get their hands on this addictive puzzler.

For those keen Facebook.com gamers and Android smartphone owners, don’t fret. Jelly Splash is our broadest and most rapid cross-platform release yet. That means that we’ve used a few speed boosts to get the game to you as soon as possible. Both versions should launch towards the end of September, so stay tuned.

Jelly Splash is a puzzle game that sees you connect lines of Jellies to progress through levels and fend off the invading Critters. Things start off easy, but gradually you’ll be conquering all sorts of different levels. Score levels have you aiming for, you guessed it, a set score, Dark Slime levels have you cleaning up after the Critters while Captured Jelly levels have you saving your fellow Jellies.

Jelly Splash is also a product of our prototype process at Wooga, discussed in detail by Antti Hattara at Casual Connect . Just over a year ago, it all started on one sheet of paper and a pitch. From there, it went through several iterations before it entered production and ended up in your hands today.

At Wooga we’re lucky enough to try out all these games before they’re released. Just to make sure they meet our very particular ‘fun standards’. Over the course of 3 months Woogas played:

Basically, we quickly found out just how crazily addictive Jelly Splash is. But don’t take our word for it, try it out!

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For much of its history, Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city, was arguably the center of the world. Halfway down the Aegean coast, Smyrna, as Asia Minor ancients called it, was where East met West as an economic and cultural synapse at the end of the Silk Road. Today, the vibrant, 8,500-year-old “Pearl of the Aegean” — flanked to the north and south by the UNESCO World Heritage city ruins of Pergamon and Ephesus , among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — has again redefined itself as a hub for international explorers. The 2,400-year-old bazaar and the ancient Agora remain Izmir’s chief attractions, but the city, which played a key role in Turkey’s independence 100 years ago, has also reopened a former tobacco factory as a culture and art complex and launched a 300-mile, sea-hugging section of the EuroVelo 8 cycle route.

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• The modern, 80-room Ontur Hotel Izmir , in the Konak neighborhood, is within easy walking distance of Ataturk Square, the Kemeralti Bazaar and the Alsancak district. It also offers a spa, fitness center and restaurant. Rooms, breakfast included, start at 2,500 lira.
• L’Agora Old Town Hotel and Bazaar is the only hotel inside the Kemeralti Bazaar. In the Kucuk Karaosmanoglu Han, which was a former marketplace inn built in 1750, the 18-room boutique hotel also has a cafe, bar, restaurant, shops, and often, live music. Rooms, breakfast included, start at around 2,600 lira.
• For short-term rentals , Izmir has plenty of options through platforms such as Airbnb and Booking.com. Alsancak and Konak are perhaps the most popular districts for visitors, but the Karsiyaka district, on the north side of the bay, has plenty of shopping, cafes and restaurants, and a slightly more neighborhood feel.
• Izmir is extremely easy to navigate with a slew of reliable and well-connected public transportation options that include trams , local trains , ferries , subways and buses . For most trips, a one-way ticket costs 13 lira. There are also bicycle , e-bike and scooter sharing stations around the city.

Start from a bird’s-eye vantage of Izmir with a ride up the city’s Historical Lift (free). The elevator — once steam-powered, now electric — was built in 1907 to connect lower districts to hilltop neighborhoods, which are separated by 190 feet of elevation. The tower-top terrace provides panoramic views of the coast, the ferries traversing Izmir Bay and the neighborhoods influenced across epochs by Hittites, Greeks, Persians, Macedonians, Romans, Ottomans and Sephardic Jews. More recently, this port city on the western shore of Anatolia boasts a mix of immigrant communities including Italians, Armenians and French. Settle into the historical vista at the terrace’s Tarihi Asansor Cafe with a cup of stove-brewed Turkish coffee or traditional tea (both cost 40 Turkish liras, or about $1.20).

Yali Mosque

Come down to Izmir’s two-mile, shoreline promenade known as Kordon , where college kids play music on surrounding grassy quads, families picnic, fishermen cast into the bay and vendors hawk mussels, nuts and fruit. A bike lane, part of a 30-mile path, runs along the walkway. Saunter to Atat u rk Square , or, more colloquially, Konak Square. The octagonal, 82-foot Clock Tower at the plaza’s center, built in 1901, has ornate Ottoman motifs spread across its four levels of carved marble, fountains and columns. The mechanical clock, a gift from the last German emperor, Wilhelm II, is still reset manually every sixth day. On the square’s sea side, the First Bullet Monument depicts the first shot fired in Izmir during the Turkish War of Independence in 1919. Across the square, the tiny, 18th-century Yali Mosque is adorned with exquisitely painted tiles.

Izmir’s constant is change. The city weaves disparate eras, styles and architecture: Ancient ruins meld with Ottoman, Neo-Romanesque and Art Nouveau architecture and glass-and-steel constructions. The other consistent theme is the image of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on buildings, flags and signs. The country’s founder, in 1923, espoused secularism and is a hero to Izmirli (someone from Izmir), who are stereotypically more progressive than the rest of Turkey. Stop at the Izmir Atatürk Museum (free), in a 19th-century neoclassical house Ataturk used when in Izmir, to glimpse photos, his living space and clothing, and to learn how he helped shape the nascent country. Then amble along Kordon to the patio at Sirena , an open-air locals’ bar since 1976. Order a half-liter mug of Turkish Efes beer (120 lira) and watch the sun disappear into the Aegean.

The artful preparation of food, especially seafood, anchors Izmir’s social life. Over the past four decades, no spot has mastered this art like Deniz Restaurant (deniz means sea). After diners take their seats on the sea-facing terrace, a waiter will present a tray of mezes, or appetizers (typically vegetable- and yogurt-based), to be paired with wine, beer or raki (pronounced rah-kuh), a liqueur of grapes and aniseed. People from Izmir often don’t consult menus, preferring to let waiters guide the experience. Try the fava beans with red onions and dill, wedges of grilled local cheese, grilled eggplant with yogurt, and shrimp wrapped in kataifi (crunchy, shredded phyllo dough). Then, savor the sea bass sauteed in light cream before a bowl of melon and strawberries appear with the coup de grâce: housemade baklava. Dinner for two costs around 4,000 lira.

People look over Izmir from the ruins of Kadifekale castle.

Aysa Bosnak Borekcisi

For much of its 24-century existence, the Kemeralti Bazaar was the beating heart of Izmir, a key western port on the Silk Road. This open-air market — Turkey’s largest — united Asian and European traders exchanging goods and world news. Today, mosques, cafes, restaurants, approximately 2,000 protected buildings and thousands of shops crowd the market’s tangle of nearly 100 streets. Start with brunch at Aysa Bosnak Borekcisi in the public courtyard of Abacioglu Han, formerly a marketplace inn. Aysa specializes in borek: phyllo-dough filled with minced beef, cheese, spinach, potato or eggplant (around 100 lira per portion). Turkish cay (pronounced “chai”), or tea, costs 15 lira.

Kemeralti Antikacilar Carsisi

Smells of incense, roasting coffee and spices waft through Kemeralti’s pedestrian-only labyrinth filled with coppersmiths, cobblers, gold and silver merchants and artisans. Along a street named Havra (the word for synagogue), one of the market’s busiest corridors, fishmongers, butchers and produce vendors vie for customers. Around the corner, stop in at the Yazihane Hat atelier to peruse traditional, framed calligraphic art painstakingly crafted by the shop’s master, Ilkay Kanar, who also makes the paper and ink (prices from 1,500 to 200,000 lira). At Ekim Seramik , Yesim Sahin sells intricately painted plates, tiles and other clay pottery (from 200 to 4,000 lira). Inside Kemeralti Antikacilar Carsisi ’s (Kemeralti Antique Market) two floors of antique shops, visit Lula & Loop for curated, vintage Turkish clothes, hats and handbags that make story-worthy souvenirs (from 450 to 5,000 lira).

Kadifekale castle

According to lore, Alexander the Great took a nap on Pagos Hill above Izmir, where the ruins of Kadifekale c astle are today, and dreamt of relocating the city known then as Smyrna to its current position. The Oracle of the god Apollo confirmed Alexander’s vision and that the move would make citizens at least three times happier. The Smyrna Agora — the result of that dream, originally constructed in the fourth century B.C. on the slopes of that hill and behind Kemeralti — acted as the newly moved city’s social, governmental and commercial hub. Roam the ruins ( entrance , 210 lira) to get a sense of the sprawling site’s importance. Of particular note: the intact Corinthian portico columns; the subterranean arched architecture, aqueduct and cistern system; and graffiti adorning merchant stalls believed to be more than 1,500 years old.

Melding culinary traditions is the philosophy at Balmumu Dukkan Lokanta , a diner with a clutch of tables in an intimate covered garden in the Alsancak neighborhood. There’s no fixed menu. Inventive soups and dishes are created from daily market finds. If available, try the baked mullet with red peppers, green beans, onions, dill and local olive oil (400 lira). Afterward, stroll to the recently opened Izmir Culture and Arts Factory , a 19th-century tobacco factory-turned-cultural complex housing museums, libraries and art workshops. One ticket (350 lira) provides entry to the 78,000-square-foot Archaeology and Ethnography Museum , with artifacts like coins, lamps and jewelry from the Archaic Period (approximately 700 to 500 B.C.), and the Izmir Painting and Sculpture Museum , which showcases works by renowned Turkish artists.

Gediz Delta

Take a ferry from the Alsancak terminal to the Bostanli terminal in the Karsiyaka district on Izmir Bay’s north side. Like the Konak and Alsancak districts, Karsyaka has pedestrian shopping streets, cafes and bistros, but with a more residential vibe. Then, either walk or take the tram to the Mavisehir fishermen’s harbor for a 90-minute Flamingo Road Boat Tour along the shore of the nearly 100,000-acre Gediz Delta , protected under the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the conservation of wetlands (180 lira per person). The wetland is home to around 300 identified bird species and more than 80,000 wintering fowl, including Dalmatian pelicans, great cormorants and oystercatchers. The stars here, however, are the gangly, majestic pink flamingos feeding in estuary grasses.

North Pier’s

Back in Konak, head to the Konak Pier . Designed by Gustave Eiffel’s firm in the late 19th century, the iron-girded building has served as a customs office, fish market and, today, a collection of shops, restaurants and bars. Grab a waterside table at North Pier’s and honor the flamingos with a Pink Paradise cocktail concocted from raspberry gin and melon liqueur (450 lira). For a classic Izmirli dinner, walk to Sevince Lokantasi in Alsancak. Consult the kitchen’s glass case and choose dishes such as fried squash, sun-dried tomatoes and peppers, hummus, arugula salad, sarma (rolled grape leaves stuffed with rice and ground meat), grilled cow liver and boiled lamb brain soft enough to spread on fresh pita. Then, order raki and find a weathered wooden table with a red-checkered cloth inside or on the sidewalk. Dinner for two, around 2,500 lira.

After dining, dive into Alsancak’s frenetic maze of lounges, tattoo parlors, palm-lined avenues and kebab kiosks. Test the waters at Hayyam wine bar, which has live jazz on the weekends, with a glass of local red: a blend of cabernet, merlot, petit verdot blend from Sevilen Saraplari Vineyard costs 185 lira. Slip next door for a more raucous experience and live blues at Cinati (cover, 200 lira), where a bicycle hangs above the entrance and photos of Nina Simone, Janis Joplin and Herbie Hancock line the walls. Try the Cinati Special: Beefeater gin, tequila, Malibu rum, lime juice and apple juice (350 lira). Finally, immerse yourself at Tato , a rocker bar that features live local metal (cover, 100 lira) and cold draft beer (150 lira).

Kordon, Izmir’s two-mile, shoreline promenade draws picnicking families, fishermen who cast into the bay and vendors hawking mussels, nuts and fruit.

Reyhan Patisserie

Fuel up at Reyhan Patisserie , an institution in Alsancak for almost six decades. Cases of cakes, pies, pastries and cookies dominate the entrance. Find a spot on the covered terrace and try the simit toast, a breakfast standard that is something between a bagel and a soft pretzel covered in poppy seeds. Here, it is served with cheese, spicy green peppers, tomatoes and olives (130 lira). Also order the milk pudding called kazandibi (150 lira); similar to crème caramel, it is caramelized on the bottom and served upside-down. Then, hop on a bike and pedal part of Turkey’s 300-mile section of the Europe-traversing EuroVelo 8 cycle route. ( BisiKoop , in Karsiyaka, rents touring bikes for 200 lira per day.) Your stage hugs the Aegean Sea for 23 miles of easygoing, paved and photograph-begging road to the beach community of Urla .

Begendik Abi

For many Izmirli, weekends mean getting out of the city. Urla is a go-to spot because of its old town, outdoor market, vineyard-covered countryside, developing culinary scene and surrounding peninsula with both secluded and lively beaches. Jump off your bike in the traditional bazaar and have a well-deserved lunch at the Michelin-recommended Be g endik Abi , a family-run restaurant surrounded by olive and fig trees. Order baked lamb with cream sauce, sauteed leeks with sun-dried tomatoes and chickpeas, and beef-and-vegetable stew slow-cooked in a clay pot. For dessert, indulge in girit boregi: walnuts and cottage cheese in phyllo dough drizzled with simple syrup. Lunch for two, about 1,200 lira. Finish your odyssey with a celebratory cocktail at Urla Berlin’s , a drinking hole next to Urla’s harbor. The Yuzu Passion combines gin, passion fruit and yuzu juice (350 lira).

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