- ONLINE VERSION -

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Updates

July 25, 2012 - Successfully implemented a Zuma's Revenge map into Zuma Blitz. Research on reverse-enginnering curve files is underway in an attempt to create a custom board editor.

June 20, 2012 - For those who don't like mojo grinding. (Today only)

April 20, 2012 - The Spirit Eagle is released! You can watch it in action now, or use one for free here.

March 6, 2012 - Changed left side from Leaderboards to High Scores for clarification. Also added high scores listings all the way back to when it was first launched (Dec 2010).

Strategy for Aweful Visage has also been released (with a respective post on the Zuma Blitz page).

March 1, 2012 - Strategy for Crossroads Board has been released! Check it out over here.

This link is set for general FB release this Friday. Currently there's no way to comment on these posts (since I shifted these guides from blogger to a custom hosted site) but I'm looking for alternatives.

February 24, 2012 - Scoring bug found when calculating your final score. I only investigated on this when at least two people complained about their score being less than totals displayed on the summary when using bomb powerups.

To test this out, I played games trying to score as little as possible to figure out this problem. Eventually I concluded it wasn't the fruit, gap, etc. as it added up. I finally got the scoring bug to occur after making as little as two matches where it was apparent that there was an error in scoring.

The summary of the game was as follows: 

SCORING TOTALS + Breakdown
        Onscreen | Raw*     Speed  Combo   Powers	
        30       | 30       0      0       0
        1340     | 170      170    1000    1340  // Explosion, Combo x2
        2120     | 40       80     2000    0     // Combo x3
        30       | 30       0      0       0
TOTAL   3520     | 270	    250    3000    1340  -> Totals 4860 

*Raw score is never displayed on the score summary screen.

The error occurs when a combo is made that triggers an explosion at the same time. When it made a combo worth 1340 points, it added 1340 to the powers area of the final score. At the same time, it added 1000 to combo, speed, and raw score like a regular combo.

Summary: Scoring bug occurs when making a combo that also triggers a bomb powerup at the same time.

February 19, 2012 - Updated leaderboard pages and planned additions. What I'm currently working on this week:

Example would be the following if you decided to add me (this is an example, don't friend request me)

Name Highest Score
Brendan Chan X X X 9,306,520

February 16, 2012 - I have decided to make this online guide (or part of it) open to the public.