TUAW’s Daily App: Plates!

A while back, we featured a game in this space called White Lines, a sort of Simon Says-style gesture drawing game. The game’s creator, Kyle Webster, recently released his second app on the App Store, and this one is a little different — much more frantic, and much more colorful. It’s called Plates!, and you can pick it up right now for an “introductory price” of US$0.99.

The idea is simple — you have three conveyor belts on screen, and each one funnels plates of food past you. There are four different sauces on the four different corners of the iPhone, and your goal is to tap a certain sauce, then tap the appropriate plate, squirting the correct sauce on each dish as it goes past. Hitting combos will get you a bonus score, and eventually there are even non-food items sprinkled in among the mix that you have to avoid to keep going.

The game gets pretty fast quickly, and when combo plates show up, you’ll have to squirt fast to keep the food moving (“squirt” is an appropriate word — the game isn’t all that appetizing, despite the colorful graphics). Add in OpenFeint functionality, and you’ve got a pretty addictive little reflex tester. Plates! is good, simple fun for just a buck.