Blotkins is an ink-blot creature game where you drop ink on a page, fold it and press it to see what comes out. On the iPhone Duo, closing the phone is the press, and the game turns the mirrored shape into a creature with a name, a species and a field-guide line.
Blotkins plays on every iPhone and iPad, not only the iPhone Duo. Other iPhones press the page when you lay them face down, and on iPad you fold the corner with your finger.
Blotkins turns ink blots into creatures
You touch and hold to drop ink, drag to pull it across the page and tap to splash. On an iPhone Duo, snapping the phone shut gives splashes, and closing it slowly gives a soft bleed. Each print mirrors the painted shape, and a tiny wizard reads it and picks one of 21 creature kinds, including owl, bat, crab and dragon.
Once the creature’s eyes open, it gets a name, a species and a field-guide line. The Studio gives you free pages, ten inks and three nibs, and you can make as many creatures as you like.
Sixty shapes and a daily challenge
The game has 60 shape outlines in four chapters, and each one is rated up to three stars. The Daily Blot gives every player the same shape each day, and the Weekly Challenge adds a shape, a seasonal ink and a best score to beat. Fuse joins the head of one creature to the body of another, so you can build a new creature from two you already made.
Share, gift and keep creatures
Your Collection keeps every creature you save. The For someone feature lets you gift a creature with the recipient’s name on the card.
You can share a creature as a story-sized card or a six-second clip with sound. Kept creatures also become iMessage stickers, and Blotkins adds widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen.
Blotkins costs $7.99
You pay once, with no ads, accounts or in-app purchases, and Family Sharing covers up to six family members. The developer says Blotkins collects no data, and the game keeps everything on your device.
Nico Contopidis of Conto IT makes the game in Itzehoe, Germany, and it carries a 4+ age rating. Blotkins is an 11.9 MB download that runs on iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 and later, and its 25 languages include Arabic, Hindi and Japanese.
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