The game features 51 levels across two different paths: Tree of Reflection and Tree of Challenge. ![]() But as Secret Exit suggests, it’s a calm and meditative experience. It sounds like a basic and perhaps bland proposition, frankly. Zen Bound involves wrapping various shapes of stone and wood–blocks, whales, birds, and the like–in a paint-soaked rope in order to, as completely as possible, cover them with paint. But I will go ahead and say it up front: Zen Bound is the most polished and ideally suited game created for the iPhone platform. ![]() I usually save the overall assessment until the end of the review. A hard question to answer–until Secret Exit’s Zen Bound made its debut. But of those precious gems, which shone the brightest? Which best utilized the iPhone’s unique combination of controls? That was a hard question to answer. And while, true, many (most?) aren’t particularly noteworthy, there are some true gems out there. There are currently over 20,000 applications in the iTunes App Store–a large number of them games. We knew then that amazing things were to come… And they have. And my first thoughts? Gaming–and no surprise. ![]() And when, a year later, Apple announced the freely available iPhone SDK, it was immediately clear that what we’d seen from the iPhone so far was just the tip of the iceberg. So much cutting edge technology all wrapped up in a multitouch / accelerometer-based package. During those two hours we were exposed to perhaps the most innovative mobile device ever created. When the iPhone was first unveiled by Steve Jobs during the Macworld 2007 keynote, most of the people in attendance stared in slackjawed amazement.
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