TUAW's Daily App: Chimes
Chimes is a beautiful and subtle game; its simple graphics and premise hold up some interesting gameplay that's somehow both frantic and serene. You're given five chimes of five colors to touch, and little drops of color will soon arrive on the screen and try to make their way to the bottom. Your job is to hit the chimes, and as waves of sound and color ring out, the little drops will be cleared when they match up with the right colors. Chimes can be added together as well, so when a red chime hits a blue chime, it makes a yellow chime, and so on. Drops can also have multiple colors, and when you start to realize that sending out waves of color can sometimes "paint over" the drops that are coming down, this previously simple game gets more complicated.
It's a lot of fun, and it's free in the App Store. 1.1 added a few features to the in-app purchase that open up more modes and stages of gameplay. Even if you're too stingy to give the dollar, though, there's still plenty of gameplay to be had, even before you take the purchase plunge.
