A Candy Crush Clone with Smiley Faces
Emojis are like the hieroglyphics of our time! In future history classes students will look back on how we text each other and try to decipher what it was we were trying to say.
How many text messages are sent in a day?
Texting has become the go-to way people communicate today with 81% of Americans texting over 6 billion texts a day, according to PEW Research! I’ve personally have gone years without hearing a friends voice! It is the best way, in my opinion, to keep in touch, especially for socially anxious people like myself. I prefer texting than a phone call and a long conversation, not that I don’t enjoy conversations, I just loathe having them on the phone!
When something becomes so ingrained in our life it’s expected that we humans will want to make that mundane and common thing “our own”. The same familiar emoji faces in your text messages does get boring! People get really excited whenever new “official” emoji‘s come out. There are plenty of decent third-party emoji add-ons out there. Some for free, the good ones you have to pay for, but not when it comes to EMOJI BLITZ by Disney and JAM CITY games. If you have a little bit of patience, love puzzle games, beating your pals in “High score” contests, and you are a Disney lover, then I know you’re going to love Emoji Blitz!
Emoji Blitz is an officially licensed game by Disney, that means it has plenty of characters available to play. If you’re wondering how the game has anything to do with texting, I’m getting to that. A cool perk of playing Emoji Blitz is that once you unlock a character in the game that characters emoji become available for your texting keyboard. Just go to your keyboard settings in your phone and activate the Emoji Blitz keyboard!
How do you play emoji BLITZ!?
emoji Blitz! is played by manipulating the faces of the emojis on the board into rows of three or more. Once players do, those emojis will disappear and a new set of emojis will drop down in their place. Players can activate bonuses like stars and lightning clouds which wipe out more emojis at once causing bigger cascades of emoji‘s to fall as well as triggering bonuses. Depending on the emoji players select they will have the opportunity to use a special power once powered up enough. If players link their social media account to the game they can track their high score against other friends who are also playing Emoji Blitz.
Do I have to spend money to advance in emoji BLITZ!?
Like most mobile app games there is an element of microtransactions available with Emoji Blitz in the form of “Gems”. Gem packages range anywhere from $1.99-$94.99. Players can unlock free gems by using a free spin wheel but gems are not guaranteed. Players can earn “boosts” which give bonuses like “extended play” or “2x” awards. Wheel spins also awards other prizes like coins and hearts which are good for more lives, which players need to start a round of Emoji Blitz. Players get a limited amount of lives that refresh pretty quickly. If players want to get more free spins and the chance to unlock more gems and prizes they can watch a short video ad to unlock a free spin. Players can do this a total of five times in a 24 hour period!
I play emoji blitz on a regular basis but it also has times when it’s especially fun for me like with the current Star Wars event. This one is featuring Darth Maul as the main villain. In past events it has been characters like Jabba the Hutt. This is an opportunity to unlock Star Wars emoji‘s For texting! Not to worry if Star Wars is not your jam, this is Disney after all and they have a lot of characters available and likely your favorite is somewhere in this long list! Get in the game and spread the Disney magic when you text!
