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This is my first attempt in writing a Java game for mobile devices. I wanted to take advantage of my new cell phone's touchscreen, so I decided to write a simple game that imitates Dactyl, a game I had seen in a friend's iPhone once. Here is a screen shot of my variant:

And here is another crispier screen shot taken directly from the emulator:

And here you can see a demonstration of the game running in my cell phone:

As you may notice, the game consist of a grid of bombs (the size of the grid is customizable). Then the bombs, one by one and in random order start to activate (they go red colored). The player has to point on every activated bomb in order to defuse it before it goes off (the speed of bomb activation as well as how fast the bombs go off are also customizable). The goal is to defuse as many bombs as you can.

Personally I find this game highly addictive, and I believe you can spot very interesting combinations in the Settings section to try on. It's highly likely that the game will look better in 240-pixel wide displays. However, I have only tested the game in my own cell phone, thus, your contribution on beta testing will much appreciated!

Here is the download link:

• candiru-102.jar

Have fun!

(The name Candiru is totally irrelevant with the game's objective. I was striving to find a name and then I remembered that earlier this morning I had been reading some stuff about Candirus, which are actually parasitic fish in the Amazon river; check it out some time.)