Purble Place

Purble Place
Basisdaten
Entwickler	Oberon Media
Erscheinungsjahr	30. Januar 2007

Purble Place is a computer game developed by Oberon Games and included in Windows Vista. It is an educational game for children, teaching pattern recognition, shapes, and colors.

Games

Three separate puzzle games are included: Comfy Cakes, Purble Shop and Purble Pairs. There are also three different levels of difficulty: Easy, Intermediate, and Advanced.

Comfy cakes

Comfy cakes requires the player to match the attributes (shape, color, decoration etc) of a cake. On the beginner difficulty there are three shapes; a heart, a circle, and a square. There are 3 flavors of base cake color; strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate and three flavors of icing; strawberry, vanilla and chocolate. For the intermediate level, fillings, additional layers and decorations are added. Multiple cakes on the production line are added. Finally, finishing techniques such as icing sugar dusting or heat treating are added for the advanced level. The objective of the game is to create the cake shown in the picture in the top left corner and not to bake any incorrect cakes. The master baker gives out hints for the player and awards ratings such as baker, baker supreme and master baker.

Purble shop

Purble Shop is a Mastermind-style game where the player attempts to guess how a Purble is dressed. Ratings are given for how many attempts it takes to guess the correct combination for the purble's outfit. Hats, eyes, noses, mouths and shoes are the garments used to dress the purble, in the colours red, purple, yellow, blue and green. Players' statistics are recorded and a percentage is given for the amount of losses and wins.

Purble pairs

Purble Pairs is a memory-style game which includes a sneak peek bonus that will allow the player to see what's behind the cloverleaf without being penalized. As the skill level progresses, the game becomes timed, the grid size increases, and the pictures become similar.