Pixeline And The Jungle Treasure is a new release coming to the app store on December 6th.  You can see a trailer for the iPad version on YouTube.  Following in the same platform genre as games like Ice Age or Toki Tori, Pixeline really brings back a sense of nostalgia for me.  It reminds me of the 1980′s when I spent countless hours on an old EGA MS-DOS system playing Captain Comic.  Like Captian Comic, the game spans multiple levels across multiple worlds.  Pixeline has a total of four different character types, five different worlds, and a total of twenty-three different levels.

The controls are very intuitive.  A little slider on the bottom left is used to move forward or backward.  An icon on the bottom right corner is used to make the character jump.  By combining direction with jumping, you are able to access the different levels in the game to either collect coins and treasure chests, gain extra lives, avoid dangers, and so forth.

I have very minor suggestions for this game.  The pop-up tips often disappear before I get fully through them.  I’d like for them to be a bit delayed with possibly a tap on the screen making them disappear.  And while the game does offer three save slots so that different people can save their progress, it would be nice if there was also some settings to control music and sound effects.

I am not sure the price point for the game once it goes live, but I’d recommend it in the $0.99 or $1.99 price.  If you are a fan of games like Super Mario Brothers or other platform type games, this one would be a nice one to add to your collection.