New Disney Emoji app

[mushu mama]

While this is Disney, I didn't know where the right place for it was, so just in case you hadn't come across it yet, there is a cute new game app by Disney which works the same basically as candy crush, BUT.... you earn Disney emoji's which you can apparently win emoji's that you can actually use on your phone when you send texts or post on social media.  I'm still trying to figure that bit out though.

I have downloaded it but haven't given it a whirl yet.  I think it might be a bit like Pokemon Go ( which I am currently obsessed with) and only available in some parts of the world so far, as the people in the thread I was talking to about it, hadn't found it in the US app store yet, when I had already downloaded it. 
Its called Emoji Blitz. 

[calisota]

I just posted a piece about it in the News section but it really doesn't give a lot of practical information. 

I am also downloading it right now from the Play Store (android) so I should be able to give an opinion soon. Be warned that it's a 43MB download which is quite large I would have thought.

Greg

[calisota]

Ok...

As a game I guess it could be a bit of a time waster, even if the countdown aspect of it is a bit annoying to me. I tend to panic when i only have a few seconds left and I'm desperately searching for matches. I have Mickey and Sully unlocked (apparently) but no idea how this translates to me being able to use them in my regular keyboard, which is swiftkey.

Greg

[calisota]

Plus it really seems to chew through the battery on my phone. 

It's also good it has enforced time-outs while you wait for new live because it is quite addictive. 

Greg 

[mushu mama]

I really don't get how to take the emoji's I've earned and use them in text... I've earned Ariel and Mickey so far, and at least now I understand the reason I can't keep playing when I have to wait for another life.
I've  not played candy crush - I believe I'm the only one in the world - so it really has taken some getting used to spotting the matches and doing it quick enough.
Def chews through the battery and Pokemon Go is even worse... I have bought two little mobile chargers in the last two days ( one is not enough when I'm out pokesearching) and I time it so they run out of charge as I'm turning in at my mailbox. 
The last time I was seriously into gaming was when Pokemon first came out... so this has not been a good thing for my time management.

[calisota]

I played candy crush for a little while but i know absolutely nothing about pokemon, either the game (it was a game right?) or the cartoon.

Greg

[KeithS]

I'm with you Greg - everyone at the moment is talking about this new Pokemon Go game (it was even on the news) - but I missed the whole Pokemon craze when it took off, so I've never played a game or watched it on TV.

I haven't tried this Emoji app yet - I'm still addicted to Disney Magic Kingdoms so I don't want another thing to take over my life...

[mushu mama]

I do seem to be one of only a handful of 'mature' players who get it and love it...
it has literally taken over my every spare minute.
We were on our first Disney trip to Tokyo when Pokemon was at an all time high in Japan but hadn't hit in Australia yet.  A month or so after we got home it erupted here and we were ahead of the game because we already had a great idea of what it was about.  Then we won two gameboy colours with the first game and the rest is history... we've been obsessed ever since.  Millie has never stopped playing.  My kids are living a Pokemon dream right now. 

[KeithS]

Last night I got off the train at Hurstville and there were about fifteen players just outside the station gates all playing Pokemon Go!  They must have been lured there by something in the game.  I just started laughing (and they were all adults!). 

One of the girls in my office is obsessed too - she downloaded it onto her son's phone for him, but now she's taken her son's phone to work and left him with her old one so that she can play.  I swear this game is taking over the world

It'll only be a matter of time before Disney bring out a clone with their characters (of course, it'll be too late to get a big market share - just like Disney Infinity )

[calisota]

A Disney one I'd be more interested in.

Greg

[mushu mama]

They must have been lured there by something in the game. 

hahaha.... yep, a poke lure... it lures pokemon to that place for 30 minutes... and it doesn't matter who used it, anyone within range can benefit... thats why they congregate. 
Yeah, I wouldn't bother playing a Disney one... it doesn't fit the premise of catching them... but I would play a HP one searching for Fantastic Beasts...
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[mushu mama]

Just a heads up... I asked around and found out that to use the emoji's I had to change the keyboard setting to allow the Emoji Blitz keyboard...BUT in order to do so, I have to allow the developers to have complete access to all that is typed on that keyboard as well as what has been typed in the PAST... so every text in my phone I'm assuming... which they are NOT getting, so I'm not going to bother playing this game until that changes .... pointless without the emoji being able to be used. 

[calisota]

So I have to use their keyboard rather than the one I want to use? I don't think I'll bother either.

Greg

[calisota]

Yeah, I wouldn't bother playing a Disney one... it doesn't fit the premise of catching them... but I would play a HP one searching for Fantastic Beasts...
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So, how could Disney do one that you may want to play because we just know that there are Disney execs ordering a version right now, along with execs at dozens of other companies.
Greg

[mushu mama]

I have actually given this some thought, but I honestly can't think of any way to make it something that most adults would want to play.  I've never gotten into the Disney games, and I've played many of them as they came and went, but they never held my interest.  I'm sure a lot of Disney fans would like  some kind of Pokemon Go style game, and would play it, but I probably wouldn't bother.  There are already these kinds of games in the parks and I probably wouldn't bother playing them either unless I was an AP and had done it all a thousand times.  I was keen on earning emojis till I learned they also want the ability to monitor my texts in return. 
I just don't think Disney does games well... just my opinion and I know lots of people love their stuff  ( although, I haven't played that game that you and Keith are hooked on so that one not withstanding)Perhaps its that their brand is spread so far and wide that the games just feel like another way to sell a movie or a holiday.  No idea really, but the whole Pokemon thing has the same customer/fan base as that of Star Wars but one generation down and THAT I think is why its been such a huge hit.  Its hard to replicate that.