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Optia

NOTE: Optia syncs progress across devices! Please see below for directions.
Category Price Seller Device
Games $2.99 Jesse Beder iPhone, iPad, iPod

Optia is a beautiful, immersive physics game about reflected light. You must activate all targets in each level with a laser beam, powering the transition to the next.

Fortunately, your puzzle-solving instincts come in handy here! Using a clever assortment of mirrors, you can reflect a beam in any direction, split it into two separate beams (or four, or eight, or sixteen...), and if you must, sacrifice your own laser to clear a path to that last target.

And Optia doesn't end there! After cutting your teeth on the main campaign, you can create your own levels and upload them for others to play.

With 100 main levels, more than one thousand user-created levels, and a polished ecosystem for creating, playing, and rating new levels, you never really need to stop playing Optia. And you can decide if that's a good thing.

- Featured in Apple's New & Noteworthy
- Winner of Applied Arts Magazine Award for Game Design

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TIPS & TRICKS

- To sync levels across devices, unlock the level editor by completing 30 levels. Then, in the Editor level menu (the wrench icon), create an alias and a password. Finally, load Optia on your second device, go to the Editor menu, and log in.

- Load a previously solved level with its solution by tapping the level's colored dot in the level menu.

- When scrolling through the level menu, tap the Optia logo to jump back to the level you're currently playing.

Reviews

Great game
Banzui

Simply a great game. Can be frustrating yet always intriguing.


Brilliant
Red Letters

Awesome game with just the right amount of difficulty. One of the best purchases I've made on the app store. I recommend this to anyone who likes a well-done puzzle game. Well worth the price!


Why can't I start a game
MaxAgHammer

Update2: FYI– to return to an already completed level from the "levels" menu, you have to tap the tiny little colored dot at the right side of that level's title bar. I don't know why it's not possible to just tap anywhere in the area of the level name, but this kind of unexplained and super-fussy interface stupidity is mostly Apple's fault, since they stopped enforcing the iOS UI minimum tap-target size requirements long ago. Some developers also like to get cute with their UI's in this way and then make things worse by not having a help menu, for example, this app. Explaining this annoying quirk is the least I can do. Be prepared to tap and tap and keep tapping away, trying to hit the one special pixel in that teeny colored dot just so… you'll get it eventually. Think of it as one more puzzle to solve! Update: My phone wouldn't sync properly and so I had to restore it from a backup. Once it was restored, Optia worked just like it's supposed to. Unfortunately, all of my progress was erased and the advanced levels were locked. If you've encountered a similar problem, try uninstalling and reinstalling the app. I wish I had tried this before my stupid phone went blooey and required resetting… it might've saved all my progress. -------- Just updated this the other day and now it won't let me play at all. I can see the levels menu but nothing works to start playing. What happened?


Sweet!
Reedwhite

Andrew garrison recommended this and it is awesome! Get it now!


Love it!!!
DudeSuperior

Love it!!!


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Great game!
JstnRyan

Fun and addicting. Simple to learn, and offers hours of entertainment.


great
jessebe

heard about this on the accidental tech podcast. really fun, thought provoking puzzles.


Great game
J B

Heard about this app when they sponsored ATP. Its a great and challenging puzzle game. Pros: -No in app purchases! -Huge number of levels -Level editor! -Did i mention no in app purchases?! -Great learning curve Cons: -no hinting mechanism for when you get stumped (you know, outside of the entire internet) -itd be nice to have a way in app to get help on a level without needing to get the entire answer off the web. -this is super nitpicky but when something reaches a certain level of quality thats the type of remaining issues you have: when you blow up the laser generator by hitting it with a laser accidentally (which was delightful the first time it happened) , the animation that occurs during the "reset" takes too long. I want to continue playing immediately, not watch an animation.


Very fun.
Danß

Fun game.