turns out Disney wanted to make another
billion dollars so they went ahead and
released a Disney emoji iPhone game no
need to beat around the bush Disney just
released a new mobile game in which you
unlock emojis that you can use in chat
and here's how it works
now the first thing you're going to do
after you load up the app and you put in
your age is you're going to pick which
first emoji you want to unlock you get
to pick from Sully Ariel or Simba I'm
gonna go with Ariel because that's Kats
favorite character and I don't have a
particular attachment to either of the
three and it's going to start to run you
through the tutorial now the tutorial is
going to teach you how to play the game
and it's like any other standard match
three games so there's nothing really
important here instead what I'm going to
focus on is how to start using these
emojis right away because if you're not
used to unlocking different emojis or
keyboards on a phone there's more to it
than just loading up the app for the
first time so what you're going to do on
the iPhone is you're going to go back
out to your home screen you're going to
go ahead and go to your settings and
under settings you're going to go to the
general tab once you load into that you
should find a keyboard tab and once you
head into that you're going to see
keyboards and then a number next to it
it's usually one or two one if you just
have the keyboard two if you have emojis
I have three because I used the G board
and then what you're going to do is
you're going to do add new keyboard and
that's going to give you a couple of
options now you'll see there emoji blitz
is the Disney emoji blitz keyboard
you're going to hit that and it's going
to be added to your list now before you
can use it you have to then go into
emoji blitz and you have to make sure
allow full access is check marked on now
by default it's off if you turn it on
it'll give you this warning full access
allows the developer of this keyboard to
transmit anything you type including
things you have previously typed with
this keyboard
this could include sensitive information
such as your credit card number or
street address we're going to allow it
in this case now when I go into my text
messaging and start up a new message
it'll let me use the keyboard now if
you've never used an emoji keyboard
before you're looking for that little
globe down there that's going to switch
between your different keyboards right
now I'm on my normal keyboard if I hit
it again it switches me to my Google
keyboard
again it switches me over to my Disney
emoji keyboard and it works similar to
regular emojis you've got a favourites
over on the Left you've got your
characters you've got props which are
like hands and other items and symbols
and then you can even throw in numbers
the way it works is similar to house a
lot of these new third party emoji apps
work which is they're not technically
keyboard emojis they're images that are
just sort of built into the keyboard and
make it easier so if I want to throw a
couple of Mickey emojis in here I just
tap on them and you'll notice that it
doesn't go into the text field that goes
into that little sub text field and when
I hit this little pop-up window button
here it'll copy it and what it really
did was just input those three images
and copy them so now when I go here and
paste them boom there you go and then I
can send them as emojis back to the game
again like I said it's your standard
match 3 game there's nothing really
special about it
it works with power-ups if you match for
their power-ups for whichever emoji
you're playing with and then by playing
you in money which you use to unlock new
emojis so it's kind of interesting that
they've taken something that would have
otherwise been sort of like a free
one-time setup app and turned it into a
game is this going to work who knows I
don't know of any other company that's
really done this where they take the
idea of a utility app like emojis and
then you know gheymeh phi it so to speak
so from this more emoji screen you can
see all the mogees that you've got
collected and you can pick between them
what's pretty cool is each emoji has its
own powerup that changes the way the
game is played I think that's pretty
cool and from the emoji shop you don't
get to specifically pick which emoji
you're going to get so you get your free
prize which I'm assuming is on some sort
of countdown timer in this case I got
three gems huh ray yeah so eight hours
later I get another free prize the first
time I try that I got coins maybe you'll
get a free emoji I don't know we'll see
and then you could pick between these
two you've got your gold box in your
silver box so while you can't pick a
specific emoji you want they are sort of
tiered so your silver box here is your
sort of basics you got your Donald your
Mickey your goofy the Fab five Simba
Ariel Sully Randall Mike Bambi
and flounder and then you've got your
gold box here that contains your
Tinkerbell Genie Alice Cheshire Cat
White Rabbit Woody Buzz alien Kermit the
Frog Fozzie Bear Cinderella Elsa see
there's way more in the gold box and
there is in silver box they really want
you saving up for that Dory Nemo Judy
Hopps so on and so forth you buy them
with coins of course if you don't have
enough coins you can trade in your gems
for coins and of course if you don't
have enough gems you can go ahead and
spend cold hard cash I mean I'm not
going to fault them for it it is 2016
that's how these games sort of work they
do have to pay for it somehow one thing
that I'd really like to point out that
I'm not a big fan of but I'm not really
going to hold it against Disney because
a lot of apps do this is that they're
really really confusing with the
conversions you know for instance a
silver box is 15,000 coins of gold boxes
30 okay simple enough however there is
no 15 and 30 when it comes to trading in
gems for those coins you have a 6,000
increment 40,000 eighty-seven thousand
and one hundred ninety five thousand and
then it gets even more confusing because
if you want to go ahead and buy those
gems you buy them in increments of 81 to
74 86 it's all messy so that you're left
with all these leftovers so that you
feel more compelled I guess to spend
more to even it out and get something
now I did a little rough math just to
get an idea of how much you'd have to
spend to get a certain amount and if you
were to buy the $49.99 20800 gem pack
that would roughly translate to over
400,000 coins which would get you about
fourteen gold boxes so I mean $50 for
what will amount to fourteen sets of
emojis I don't know I mean that the
value of that's going to be up to you
guys on top of that you have more lives
so I guess you can only play in limited
increments so you can't just grind it
all out or if you do want to grind it
all out you have to again pay some gems
and as you can see the cost of these are
like thirty fifty thirty three hundred
six hundred so it's enough that like you
know you're three free gems that you get
isn't really going to cut it and keep
you going so what do I think of Disney
emoji
it's funny because on the surface it
looks like such a weaker game when you
compared to something like Disney Magic
Kingdom's yet at the same time it's much
more of a game than Disney Magic
Kingdom's is um you know sure it's just
a match-three game and there are a
million of those out there but I think
it's really interesting that they've
created a match-three game in which the
prizes you unlock have use outside of
the game itself usually it's just a high
score usually it's just unlocks for the
games that continue to let you play the
game yet this is their emojis there's
something you use every day in your
texts and your chats and things like
that I think it's really clever the way
they did it I'm not a major fan of the
way they do the coin and gem system I
think it's a little intentionally
confusing not to say that they're not
the only company out there that does it
but it's just a shame to see them just
following that trend
I'm not against in-app purchases in
general it's a free game you got to pay
for it somehow I just wish it was a
little more transparent so it'd be
easier to know how much you're buying
and know what you're going to get out of
that and make it a little less nebulous
so you're not buying more than you
actually need
I think the emojis themselves are really
cool and obviously this is going to be a
really easy game to continue to update
right just by adding more emojis you
know by having that element where you
don't get to specifically pick the emoji
you want but you sort of pick from the
bucket of emojis you want is a nice
balance between making it too easy so
that you know some players will just get
like the three or four they want and
then stop playing or just making it too
hard where you're never going to know
and it's always random it's like a nice
middle ground there so I kind of like
that it works really well it's a simple
game I'm not a major fan of like the
timed match three games but you know
that's sort of how they work so there's
no you know can't blame them for that
overall I think is a good idea I think
it's pretty fun I think it's going to be
a lot more replayable than something
like Disney Magic Kingdom's and it's
going to have much more use outside of
something like Disney Magic Kingdom so
I'm really happy to see it there I think
when I have a lot of fun with it I hope
they continue to add more emojis and I
can't wait to see where it goes if you
want to check it out yourself
again it's called Disney emoji blitz it
is on the App Store on iOS it's on the
Android store it's free-to-play you've
got nothing to lose but a little bit of
time I hope you enjoy it hope you
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to see you next time bye everybody so
this week a new app came out for both
iOS and Android called Disney Magic
Kingdom's it is a free-to-play game that
sort of sells itself as a way for you to
build your very own Disneyland and I
played it for a couple of days and I
just wanted to talk a little bit about
it maybe do like a miniature review