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All Mac laptops from the last couple of generations have had a motion sensor fitted to the hard drive to stop hard drive crashes when the laptop is moved. People have quickly taken the API for this sensor and made games available for you Mac. One such game is Balance, where you have to move your laptop round by moving and tilting your laptop in certain directions.

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This game is very simple and you have probably played a variant of it at sometime in your life. The idea behind this game is to tilt your laptop left, right, up and down. As you laptop is tilted the game board moves and the ball moves around on the surface, you then have to get the ball to roll into the hole to move onto the next level.

The levels are fun. They slowly become more and more complex, the one shown in the screenshot above is rather early in the game and a bit simple, but they do become quite challenging. The graphics are good and are quite detailed. It is a mixture of high level graphics and using up loads of CPU power to control everything.

If you don’t have a laptop you can still play this game but it isn’t as fun. You can’t beat waving your laptop around in a public place while the ball whizzes around the board. Before you play just make sure you have set the options to motion sensor or mouse. I missed that option when I started and I wondered why it didn’t work.

Conclusion

I really like this application, it does have quite a few levels, although I would have liked a lot more with varing complexity. I do feel like this game has a novelty factor that will ware off pretty quickly, but it does have a low price which isn’t too bad.