This week’s winner of the site of the week contest was Tower Blaster. Tower Blaster is a game that is very simple, yet surprisingly entertaining. It wasn’t until I had been playing it for a half an hour, that I realized there was an education component to the game.
The goal of the game is line up a series of blocks in numerical order. You don’t have to get them exactly in order, you just need to make sure that each block has a higher value than the one above it. Once you get all of your blocks in order, you win that level. During the game, you compete against various opponents who have unique skills that they bring to the game. Some opponents have the ability to block you from seeing their progress, while other opponents, are more organized, but let you see what you are building.
The game starts off by letting you use blocks numbered 1 – 50, in order to build your tower, but as the game progresses, they limit the number of blocks that you can use. In total there are 8 levels for you to work your way through. This gives you a good number of levels to play through, yet still keeps it so that even a casual gamer can beat the game with a little practice.
Congratulations to Tower Blaster on winning this week’s site of the week award. The nominations for next week’s site of the week are listed below. You can vote in the sidebar. If you’d like to nominate a site, feel free to contact me and I will add it to the pool of nominees.