{"id":13053,"date":"2015-01-26T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13053"},"modified":"2015-01-19T00:34:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T00:34:47","slug":"satellina-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/satellina-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellina (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/satellina-ipad\/satellina_box\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13050\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13050\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SATELLINA_BOX-150x107.jpg\" alt=\"SATELLINA_BOX\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SATELLINA_BOX-150x107.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SATELLINA_BOX-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SATELLINA_BOX.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Satellina is a touch screen game of skill available for download on iOS and Android devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 In the game, you use your finger to run over green dots, but try to avoid yellow and red dots.\u00a0 Once you\u2019ve cleared all the green dots, the yellow dots turn green and the red dots turn yellow.\u00a0 In this fashion, you must clear the whole screen of dots. It\u2019s that simple!\u00a0 If you touch a yellow or red dot, you\u2019ll have to start the stage over again, so be careful!<\/p>\n<p>Each area has five stages, and once you complete those you can choose from different stages in a branching path.\u00a0 Easier stages are on the left, and harder ones on the right.\u00a0 In order to unlock both paths, you must also clear the stage prior in a certain amount of time.\u00a0 To trace with your finger, tap it directly on the white dot.\u00a0 But if your finger gets in the way, you can always tap on the screen somewhere else and control the white dot that clears out the green ones indirectly, but it doesn\u2019t make the game any easier.<\/p>\n<p>Only problem I had with the game is that it can get a bit difficult in places, especially when you try to complete a level quickly to open up new paths.\u00a0 Color blind folks may also have a hard time with this one, as the green and yellow dots look similar sometimes.\u00a0 But I did like how the colors, branching paths, hypnotic movements, and catchy tunes reminded me of old classic Taito arcade games for some reason.\u00a0 If you know what I mean, you might want to get this game, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/satellina-ipad\/satellina_screen\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13051\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13051\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SATELLINA_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"SATELLINA_SCREEN\" width=\"395\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SATELLINA_SCREEN.jpg 395w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SATELLINA_SCREEN-93x150.jpg 93w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SATELLINA_SCREEN-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No violence here, and reading skill isn\u2019t necessary since the game is pretty easy to figure out just by playing.\u00a0 Younger gamers may get frustrated at the difficulty, though, but at least you don\u2019t have to worry about running out of lives or anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellina is a touch screen game of skill available for download on iOS and Android devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 In the game, you use your finger to run over green dots, but try to avoid yellow and red dots.\u00a0 Once you\u2019ve cleared all the green dots, the yellow dots turn green and the red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13056,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053\/revisions\/13056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}