Candid Prejudice: Sprinkle: Most Addictive Gaming App of the Month for the iOS 5

In this physics-based shooting game, friendly-looking aliens are armed with weapons that shoot jets of water onto their meteor-stricken village to put out fire. In Sprinkle, the player is anchored on the left side of the panel with limited movements. The water gun can be aimed around 360° and its platform can be moved vertically upward or downward.

Welcome screen

The aim of the game is simply to put out fire using the sprinkler that sets the water trajectory. The source of fire is the rain of meteors falling from the sky. Usual scenarios already have fire burning right at the start of the game. A major challenge in Sprinkle is the hardly accessible location of burning areas that needs to be put out. Hard-to-reach locations are strategically watered down by using the contours of the landscape. Water jets are tunneled through curved holes and are aimed at stones and other scenario components to reach concealed locations.

To effectively make use of the resources arranged on a particular village, timing and strategy are crucial. Movable blocks of wood or ice are placed on certain locations so that water reaches the burning areas.

Sprinkle is a lot of watery fun that could last for several hours. The app has a total of five worlds with twelve scenarios each designed with increasing difficulty. The first few stages are relatively very easy to finish, while some can be really challenging. Easier levels can be finished in a single try, while those which are more difficult may require at least ten trials. Each stage lasts for less than a minute. A basic strategy is to sprinkle water immediately since fire can easily spread on the grassy grounds.

For each scenario, the player is limited to a certain volume of water more than enough to kill the fire if efficient strategies are applied. To get five stars, which is the highest rating for each level, 5000 units of water volume must be left in the reservoir. At least 4000 units of water volume will give a four-star rating, 3000 a three-star rating, and so on. Collecting a total of 36 stars in a particular world opens the next world that needs to be saved.

Aiming on the right trajectory can be challenging. Thus, shooting trials may be performed by shooting tiny amounts of water jets until the right trajectory is found. This strategy helps a lot in saving great quantities of water volumes.

Players who are able to finish all the scenarios complete with five stars are granted access to the six bonus stages at the end of the five saved worlds. After finishing the bonus stages though, nothing surprising happened. But right after saving the six worlds, a short video clip of the happier aliens is played along with the credits. Players may also view an introductory video of Sprinkle that sets the plot of the game.