Reef by Numbers is on Freeplay
A colour-by-number game where every creature you finish wakes up and swims into your own reef.
Reef by Numbers is live on Freeplay. Every cell of a picture carries a number and every number has its own dye pot: pick a colour and paint the cells that match. When the last cell is filled, the creature wakes up, leaves the page and swims into your reef, where it earns pearls.
There are 60 sea creatures across five seas: the Shallows, the Coral Garden, the Kelp Forest, The Deep and The Trench. Each sea ends with a giant set piece, from the Great Manta to the Leviathan at the bottom of the sea. Visitors come on the tide and swim away if you do not finish them in time, and 6 % of pictures come out Shiny, a gold version for the Reef Book.
Pearls buy 25 pieces of decor for the reef, and coins buy tools: a Brush that paints two cells a tap, Fill for a whole colour and a Wand for twelve cells. It plays with a mouse or by touch, and phones play upright or sideways. Since launch we have cleaned up the sound: every reward is now one soft strike instead of a ring.