Bejeweled Wikipedia. This article is about the first game in the series. For an overview of the whole series, see Bejeweled series. Bejeweled is a tile matchingpuzzle video game by Pop. Cap Games, first developed for browsers in 2. Three follow ups to this game have been released. More than 7. 5 million copies of Bejeweled have been sold, and the game has been downloaded more than 1. Although the game is no longer downloadable through Pop. Caps website, the installer can be downloaded via the Wayback Machine. HistoryeditThe game was initially created by Pop. Cap Games as a web based Shockwave later using Flash game called Diamond Mine, inspired by the 1. MS DOS game Shariki. It was reportedly successful for Pop. Capa company formed in 2. Crate And Barrel Registry Completion Program. Pop. Cap created partnerships which allowed Microsoft Zone and other gaming sites to host Bejeweled as well. The name Bejeweled was suggested by Microsoft, who thought the original name Diamond Mine was too similar to that of an existing game, Diamond Mines. The game has also been ported to other platforms, including Microsoft Windows, where it was called Bejeweled Deluxe, and i. OS devices. Astraware produced versions for PDAs on the Black. Berry, i. Phone, Palm OS, and Windows Mobilesmartphone platforms. They also released Bejeweled Deluxe on the Xbox as a downloadable Xbox Live Arcade game. On September 1. 2, 2. Tunes Store for the Apple i. Pod. citation needed Pop. Cap also released a web app version of the game for i. OS on October 1. 1, 2. On December 1. 3, 2. Pop. Cap released a HTML5 version of the game, which is available on the Google Chrome Web Store for free. A HD version for i. Pad debuted in May 2. Bejeweled Deluxe 1' title='Bejeweled Deluxe 1' />In 2. Candy Crush Saga became the most popular game on Facebook. In 2. 01. 4 Bejeweled and Candy Crush Saga along with many other similar match three games were proved to be NP hard. GameplayeditThe objective of this game is to swap one gem with an adjacent gem to form a horizontal or vertical chain of three or more gems of the same color. Bonus points are given when chains of more than three identical gems are formed and when two chains are formed in one swap. Gems disappear when chains are formed and gems fall from the top to fill in gaps. Sometimes chain reactions, called cascades, are triggered, where chains are formed by the falling gems. Cascades are awarded with bonus points. Bejeweled Deluxe 11' title='Bejeweled Deluxe 11' />There are two variations of the game to choose from. Normal ModeeditIn Normal Mode, the player fills up the progress bar on the bottom of the screen by matching gems. When the progress bar is filled up completely, the player goes to the next level. Every time you level up, it takes longer to fill the bar up. 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The progress bar depletes faster and gets slower to fill up as the player levels up, and gets faster and faster. If no moves are possible, the player gets a new board instead of getting a game over. If the progress bar depletes completely, the player is given a Game Over. Hints and TrickseditBy clicking the purple button on the side next to Options and Quit Game, the player can get a hint. But when heshe does it, the score and progress bar depletes. The depleting score and progress bar doesnt repeat until you make another match. Although normally the player gets only three in a row for gems, sometimes they can get four or five in a row. And in rare conditions, they can get six, seven, and even eight in a row. But some versions of the engine do not register it. The player gets more points for matching more than three gems in a row. ReferenceseditBejeweled Readme Credits. Archived June 1. 2, 2. Wayback Machine. Bejeweled Readme. Archived June 1. 2, 2. Wayback Machine. Mark Ward 2. Casual games make a serious impact. BBC News. BBC. Archived from the original on 2. March 2. 00. 8. Retrieved 2. Hester, Larry October 2. Inside Bejeweled An Interview with Executive Producer Heather Hazen. Complex.  Brendan Sinclair 3 March 2. Polishing Bejeweled. Game. Spot. Retrieved 5 August 2. Entry of Bejeweled on Apples Web App listing. Apple, Inc. October 1. Archived from the original on 1. February 2. 01. 1. Tom Curtis 2. Pop. Cap Tries Hand At HTML5 With New Bejeweled Release. Gamasutra.  Cowan, Danny May 1. Top i. Pad game apps Bejeweled HD leads paid charts in debut week. Gamesutra. UBM Techweb. Retrieved 2. 01. 2 0. San Francisco Chronicle Thursday, March 2. Business Report Tech Chronicles Page C2Application Analytics for Facebook, i. OS and Android. App. Data. Retrieved 2. T. Walsh 2. 01. 4. Candy Crush is NP Hard. Xiv 1. 40. 3. 1. L. Gual S. Leucci E. Natale 2. 01. 4. Bejeweled, Candy Crush and other Match Three Games are NP Hard. Xiv 1. 40. 3. 5. Be. 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