Major casual PC publisher Big Fish Games has released
Hidden Expedition: Amazon, its first game for Kindle.
The title, which follows a search for a missing professor in the Amazon jungle, is the first Kindle game in the popular "hidden object" genre, according the Amazon Kindle vice president Mike Nash.
Big Fish has optimized the game for the Kindle's high-contrast, grayscale e-ink display, according to Big Fish Games Studios vice president Patrick Wylie, including 19 levels and 4 different puzzle types in the Kindle release.
The Kindle's slow-to-refresh e-ink screen makes it ill-suited for games that include fast action or require quick reflexes, but that hasn't stopped a handful of puzzle, card and word games from finding success on the device. In fact, EA's
Scrabble for Kindle at one point
outsold all e-books sold on Amazon.
In
an interview with Gamasutra last year, Spry Fox co-founder and
Triple Town developer Daniel Cook said the limited supply of games on the Kindle makes it a more intriguing market for small developers than the overcrowded iOS marketplace.
"As a smart developer, you need to be creating the next opportunity, not mooning after the successes that happened two years ago," he said.
