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Windows Mobile Bough Puzzle Game - Designed for Windows Mobile Example  

Designed for Windows Mobile Logo Certification Although Mercury Development is now an established custom software development company with over eight years in business, in our early days we developed a few simple retail applications for mobile platforms. One of these applications, the award-winning Bough Puzzle Game was recently resurrected to provide valuable training to our Windows Mobile developers on best practices. As a result, Bough is now a Designed for Windows Mobile™ application that we are offering as a free download for your Windows Mobile device.


A Brief History of Bough Puzzle Game

January 2001 Between overseeing development of innovative custom applications for our early customers and managing the growth of our development center, our COO creates a small Palm OS application as an entertaining diversion.
February 2001 Bough was submitted to major mobile application resellers - PalmGear and Handango. It even generated enough revenue to supply the office with coffee and sugar!
April 2001 Bough Puzzle Handera Contest Winner Handera creates a new PalmOS device that supports a graffiti area that can be minimized to allow more application screen resolution and creates a contest for applications developed that support this new functionality. Bough is selected as a winner in the HandEra 330 developer contest for which Mercury was awarded a free HandEra 330 device.
January 2002 One of our developers learns the idiosyncrasies of Pocket PC development by porting Bough Puzzle from Palm OS to Pocket PC.
April 2007 Pocket PC code is refactored to comply with Microsoft Designed for Windows Mobile™ set of rules; the resulted application is submitted to LioNBRIDGE (an official Microsoft agent for testing) and successfully passes all required tests. Bough is resurrected as a Designed for Windows Mobile™ application!
December 2007 Bough Puzzle Game for Windows Mobile has officially become freeware. Enjoy!
February 2008 Bough Puzzle port to iPhone begins!
February 2009 Bough Puzzle for iPhone is released!
June 2009 Bough Puzzle port to Palm Pre (WebOS) begins!

Game Story

Bough is an exciting puzzle game that challenges users to save a tree's life by rotating branch pieces until the entire tree has access to the water supply.

A living branch has been cut into separate pieces (we did not do it) and it is slowly dying. The pieces have been left in their places but they have each been rotated randomly. Fortunately, the water source in the center of the field still feeds the branch. When water reaches the cut pieces they come back to life and leaves begin to grow.
You must save the entire branch by tapping on the pieces to rotate them so that the entire branch receives water and can come back to life.

Screenshots

iPhone Bough Puzzle Designed for Windows Mobile Bough Puzzle Game Palm OS Bough Puzzle Game
Palm OS B&W Bough Puzzle Game

Download

Designed for Windows Mobile™ version
Palm OS version

Please note that we provide no support for these freeware downloads.


User Reviews

A user from Menlo Park, Ca: So deceptively simple that it's challenging! I came across this game and have become officially addicted! I prefer simple yet challenging games--streamlined elegance! This is only the second game I actually play on my Prism! The other is PalmLinez!"

A user from Princeton, NJ: An intriguing, elegant game of skill!

A user from San Francisco, CA: Outstanding & addictive game! I was already hooked on the first version of Bough when the developers sent me a free upgrade to the latest edition. Wow!! This is, hands down, the best and most addictive puzzle game I have found for the Palm OS or any other system. If you're looking for a great, non-violent game for your PDA, you've just found it.
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Breaking News
09/03/2009
Mercury becomes a Windows 7 "Front Runner" with release of PopMonger 4.0!

06/01/2009
Mercury has been awarded our fifth project for the National Park Service.

05/25/2009
A universal iPhone remote developed for Cremote appear in AppStore.

12/17/2008
iPhone app developed for iTranz Software appear in AppStore.

11/04/2008
Mercury was asked to develop an innovative 3D motion iPhone app.

10/10/2008
Element Labs selects Mercury to develop the next version of RasterMapper Mac OS/Windows app.


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