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87-412: The basic game was prototyped in a single night, but the team spent over half a year iterating through variations on the idea with visual themes such as sushi and chess . By the end of the game's 14-month development, the team returned to the game's simple principles and numbers theme. The game received what video game review score aggregator Metacritic described as "universal acclaim". Reviewers found

174-523: A butane torch to sear the sushi, which may contain ingredients such as mayonnaise , various sauces, jalapeños , and avocado in addition to typical sushi ingredients such as salmon and mackerel. The variety has since spread to other cities, such as Toronto. The increasing popularity of sushi worldwide has resulted in variations typically found in the Western world but rarely in Japan. A notable exception to this

261-584: A 2015 smartphone app, the user presses a button on a minimal interface to receive a fortune cookie -style fortune based on the Twitter messages of strangers. A user can receive three daily fortunes based on the time of day, and a countdown timer displays when the user can return. The app was based on a similar physical machine he had built. Gage also created digital games based on playing card and board games : Sage Solitaire (2015), Really Bad Chess (2016), and Flipflop Solitaire (2017). Gage also assisted in

348-610: A chef typically presses between the palms of the hands to form an oval-shaped ball and a topping (the neta ) draped over the ball. It is usually served with a bit of wasabi ; toppings are typically fish such as salmon, tuna, or other seafood. Certain toppings are typically bound to the rice with a thin strip of nori, most commonly octopus ( tako ), freshwater eel ( unagi ), sea eel ( anago ), squid ( ika ), and sweet egg ( tamago ). [[[Gunkanmaki]]  [ ja ] ] Error: {{nihongo3}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 89) ( help ) ( 軍艦巻 , "warship roll")

435-541: A demo for the company that purchased Cocoa from Apple, and contributed to a book on the language. He advanced to C++ and Java programming languages in high school, where he also developed an interest in photography. He attended Skidmore College and upon finding its computer science program lackluster, graduated with a degree in art in 2007. His new media thesis project was an interactive installation involving viewer tracking and video projection. Gage returned to New York City after college and worked with Eyebeam . He

522-612: A family of artists, encouraged Gage to make his own games. He would retain this do it yourself mentality to learn new creative skills and escape later creative slumps. As a child, Gage created imaginary games with Kid Pix , the drawing software, on his family computer, a Macintosh LC , adventure games in Apple 's hyperlink -based HyperCard software, and video games in Apple's Cocoa visual programming language for children. In his time with Cocoa, Gage collaborated with another teen developer, created

609-479: A favorite and specialty of Osaka . A block-shaped piece is formed using a wooden mold, called an oshibako . The chef lines the bottom of the oshibako with the toppings, covers them with sushi rice, and then presses the mold's lid to create a compact, rectilinear block. The block is removed from the mold and then cut into bite-sized pieces. Particularly famous is battera ( バッテラ , pressed mackerel sushi) or saba zushi ( 鯖寿司 ) . In oshizushi , all

696-452: A fermentation process via lactic acid . Fermentation methods following similar logic in other Asian rice cultures include burong isda , balao-balao , and tinapayan of the Philippines ; pekasam of Indonesia and Malaysia , pla ra ( ปลาร้า ) of Thailand; sikhae ( 식해 ) of Korea ; and Mắm bò hóc or cá chua of Vietnam. The lacto-fermentation of

783-650: A fermented food, was mixed with rice to give it a sour taste so that it could be eaten at the same time as the fish. Previously, sushi had evolved with a focus on shortening the fermentation period, but with the invention of haya-zushi , which is simply mixed with vinegar, the fermentation process was eliminated and sushi became a fast food. Many types of sushi known in the world today, such as chirashizushi ( 散らし寿司 , "scattered sushi") , inarizushi ( 稲荷寿司 , " Inari sushi") , makizushi ( 巻寿司 , "rolled sushi") , and nigirizushi ( 握り寿司 , "hand-pressed sushi") , were invented during this period, and they are

870-433: A file on the player's hard drive. The conceptual project intended to question human propensity to follow directions and the real-life consequences of in-game decisions, following from works including Eddo Stern 's Tekken Torture Tournament . Security company Symantec classified the game as malware . Outside of his art work, Gage began programming for Apple's App Store upon its 2008 opening for submissions. He created

957-476: A final score based on the rarity of the tiles (rather than the tile number values). The object of the game is to earn a high score. Outside of the game, players can review their scores and set Game Center challenges. There are a total of 2 kinds of colored tiles, valued 1 and 2, and 12 kinds of "threes" tiles in the game with values from 3 through 6,144. Color tiles are worth nothing, while the point value of "threes" tiles start at 3 and grows exponentially. There

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1044-452: A four-by-four grid to combine addends and multiples of three. For example, ones and twos merge to become a single "three" tile, two threes merge into "six", and two sixes merge into "12". Swiping the screen up, down, left, or right moves all of the tiles one square (if possible) on the grid in that direction and adds a new tile to the grid in the same direction. The color of the incoming tile is shown onscreen. Players can preview moves by sliding

1131-440: A method originally meant to hide the nori. Uramaki differs from other makimono because the rice is on the outside and the nori inside. The filling is surrounded by nori, then a layer of rice, and optionally an outer coating of some other ingredients such as roe or toasted sesame seeds . It can be made with different fillings, such as tuna, crab meat, avocado, mayonnaise, cucumber, or carrots. Examples of variations include

1218-494: A monster who ate tiles and a wall that blocked certain movements. Early Threes designs had no inclination towards minimalism : the pair felt that the game needed to appear more complex so as to interest players. Wohlwend sent Vollmer designs including sushi -themed tiles that paired fish and rice, a chess theme that paired chess pieces, themes about animals, broccoli and cheese soup , military insignia, hydrogen atoms , and textile patterns . Their test audiences were confused by

1305-455: A more popular type of sushi within the United States and come in variations that take their names from their places of origin. Other rolls may include a variety of ingredients, including chopped scallops , spicy tuna , beef or chicken teriyaki roll, okra , and assorted vegetables such as cucumber and avocado, and the tempura roll, where shrimp tempura is inside the roll or the entire roll

1392-521: A preserved fish food to a food where fish and rice are eaten together. After the appearance of namanare , sake and sake lees were used to shorten fermentation, and vinegar was used in the Edo period . During the Edo period (1603–1867), a third type of sushi, haya-zushi ( 早寿司、早ずし , "fast sushi") , was developed. Haya-zushi differed from earlier sushi in that instead of lactic fermentation of rice, vinegar,

1479-458: A slice of fish draped over it, became popular in Edo (contemporary Tokyo) in the 1820s or 1830s. One common story of the origin of nigirizushi is of the chef Hanaya Yohei (1799–1858), who invented or perfected the technique in 1824 at his shop in Ryōgoku . The nigirizushi of this period was somewhat different from modern nigirizushi . The sushi rice of this period was about three times

1566-646: A time, has been cited as one of the early influences for the Japanese practice of applying rice on raw fish. The fish was fermented with rice vinegar, salt, and rice, after which the rice was discarded. Narezushi is also called honnare , meaning "fully fermented", as opposed to namanare , meaning "partially fermented", a type of sushi that appeared in the Muromachi period . Fermented fish using rice, such as narezushi , originated in Southeast Asia where it

1653-445: A type of haya-zushi . Each region utilizes local flavors to produce a variety of sushi that has been passed down for many generations. A 1689 cookbook describes haya-zushi , and a 1728 cookbook describes pouring vinegar over hako-zushi ( 箱ずし , "box sushi") (square sushi made by filling a wooden frame with rice). Today's style of nigirizushi ( 握り寿司 , "hand-pressed sushi") , consisting of an oblong mound of rice with

1740-449: A variation, sliced pieces of makizushi may be lightly fried with egg coating. Below are some common types of makizushi , but many other kinds exist. Narezushi ( 熟れ寿司 , "matured sushi") is a traditional form of fermented sushi. Skinned and gutted fish are stuffed with salt, placed in a wooden barrel, doused with salt again, then weighed down with a heavy tsukemonoishi (pickling stone). As days pass, water seeps out and

1827-430: A variety of ingredients ( ねた , neta ) , such as seafood , vegetables , or meat: seafood is the most common, and may be served raw, cooked, or marinated. While sushi comes in numerous styles and presentation, the defining component is the vinegared rice, also known as shari ( しゃり ) , or sumeshi ( 酢飯 ) . The modern form of sushi is believed to have been created by Hanaya Yohei , who invented nigiri-zushi,

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1914-399: A visual music sequencer (SynthPond) and a horizontal Tetris -style game ( Unify ). His next app, the word game SpellTower , was commercially successful and led to multiple venture capital offers that Gage declined in favor of staying independent. Gage had been inspired to design SpellTower by a conversation with Asher Vollmer who described his design for what would become Puzzlejuice ,

2001-493: A word game which combined Tetris and Boggle ; with Vollmer's permission, Gage developed his own version of the idea, and beat Vollmer to market by two months. Gage later worked as the iOS developer for Vlambeer 's 2013 Ridiculous Fishing , in which players use motion and touch controls to catch fish and subsequently shoot them out of the sky for cash. During the peak of development, the game's artist Greg Wohlwend moved in with Gage to work 14-hour days. In Gage's #Fortune,

2088-434: Is a cylindrical piece formed with the help of a mat known as a makisu ( 巻き簾 ) . Makizushi is generally wrapped in nori (seaweed) but is occasionally wrapped in a thin omelette , soy paper, cucumber, or shiso (perilla) leaves. Makizushi is often cut into six or eight pieces, constituting a single roll order. Short-grain white rice is usually used, although short-grain brown rice, like olive oil on nori,

2175-403: Is a special type of nigirizushi : an oval, hand-formed clump of sushi rice that has a strip of nori wrapped around its perimeter to form a vessel that is filled with some soft, loose or fine-chopped ingredient that requires the confinement of nori such as roe , nattō , oysters, uni ( sea urchin roe), sweetcorn with mayonnaise, scallops, and quail eggs. Gunkan-maki was invented at

2262-499: Is a variant of inarizushi originating in Hawaii that may include green beans , carrots , gobo , or poke along with rice, wrapped in a triangular abura-age piece. It is often sold in okazu-ya (Japanese delis ) and as a component of bento boxes. Makizushi ( 巻き寿司 , "rolled sushi") , norimaki ( 海苔巻き , " nori roll", used generically for other dishes as well) or makimono ( 巻物 , "variety of rolls")

2349-447: Is also a 13th character that is unlocked when two 6,144 tiles are combined; this character is marked by a triangle rather than the number 12,288. When this character is revealed, the game ends immediately even if the player has moves available, and points are totaled as usual. This feat was achieved and documented by Twitter user Threesporn in 2017 and publicly acknowledged by developer Asher Vollmer. The game resisted complexity because it

2436-468: Is another variant of uramakizushi filled with tamago (omelette), imitation crab and cucumber, rolled with shiso leaf and nori , topped with slices of Norwegian salmon, garnished with lemon and mayonnaise. Uramaki ( 裏巻 , "inside-out roll") is a medium-sized cylindrical style of sushi with two or more fillings and was developed as a result of the creation of the California roll, as

2523-494: Is battered and fried tempura-style. In the Southern United States, many sushi restaurants prepare rolls using crawfish . Sometimes, rolls are made with brown rice or black rice , known as forbidden rice, which appear in Japanese cuisine as well. Per Food and Drug Administration regulations, raw fish served in the United States must be frozen before serving to kill parasites. Since rolls are often made to order, it

2610-524: Is designed for players to enter a state of focus and self-awareness. Recode 's Eric Johnson called the game a descendant of Sudoku, Dots , and Rush Hour . Pocket Gamer 's Mark Brown thought the game's randomness kept its gameplay interesting, and MAME creator Nicola Salmoria wrote an artificial intelligence to play the game. Edge wrote that the game "can feel a little insubstantial" in its lack of gameplay variety, though its "charm and craft" will make players return. They wrote that

2697-404: Is not unusual for the customer to specify the exact ingredients desired (e.g., salmon roll, cucumber roll, avocado roll, tuna roll, shrimp or tuna tempura roll, etc.). Though the menu names of dishes often vary by restaurant, some examples include the following: Australian sushi is a thick hand roll made from half a standard sheet of nori. It is similar to futomaki thick rolls, however, it

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2784-466: Is now becoming more widespread among the health-conscious. Rarely, sweet rice is mixed in makizushi rice. Nowadays, the rice in makizushi can be many kinds of black rice, boiled rice, and cereals. Besides the common ingredients listed above, some varieties may include cheese, spicy cooked squid , yakiniku , kamaboko , lunch meat , sausage, bacon or spicy tuna . The nori may be brushed with sesame oil or sprinkled with sesame seeds. In

2871-493: Is now used in conveyor belt sushi restaurants today. When the patent for conveyor belt sushi restaurants expired, a chain of conveyor belt sushi restaurants was established, spreading conveyor belt sushi throughout Japan and further popularizing and lowering the price of sushi. By 2021, the conveyor belt sushi market had grown to 700 billion yen and spread outside Japan. The earliest written mention of sushi in English described in

2958-465: Is often served uncut as a on-the-go snack. Typical fillings in Australian sushi include teriyaki chicken, salmon and avocado, tuna, prawn, etc. Australian California rolls in are very different from American California rolls, with the nori wraps the rice and fillings always on the outside, and has no tobiko nor cream cheese. Contrary to sushi in Japan and other countries being a high-end food, it

3045-423: Is often served with pickled ginger ( gari ) , wasabi , and soy sauce . Daikon radish or pickled daikon ( takuan ) are popular garnishes for the dish. Sushi is sometimes confused with sashimi , a dish that consists of thinly sliced raw fish or occasionally meat , without sushi rice . A dish known as narezushi ( 馴れ寿司, 熟寿司 , "matured fish") , stored in fermented rice for possibly months at

3132-577: Is popular because it is filling, fast, and easy to make. It is eaten annually on Hinamatsuri in March and Kodomonohi in May. Inarizushi ( 稲荷寿司 ) is a pouch of fried tofu typically filled with sushi rice alone. According to Shinto lore, inarizushi is named after the god Inari . Foxes, messengers of Inari, are believed to have a fondness for fried tofu and in some regions an Inari-zushi roll has pointed corners that resemble fox ears, thus reinforcing

3219-553: Is removed. After six months, this sushi can be eaten, remaining edible for another six months or more. The most famous variety of narezushi are the ones offered as a specialty dish of Shiga Prefecture , particularly the funa-zushi made from fish of the crucian carp genus , the authentic version of which calls for the use of nigorobuna , a particular locally differentiated variety of wild goldfish endemic to Lake Biwa . Nigirizushi ( 握り寿司 , "hand-pressed sushi") consists of an oblong mound of sushi rice that

3306-705: Is the founder of Mizkan , a company that still develops and sells vinegar and other seasonings today. The dish was originally termed Edomae zushi as it used freshly caught fish from the Edo-mae (Edo or Tokyo Bay ); the term Edomae nigirizushi is still used today as a by-word for quality sushi, regardless of its ingredients' origins. In 1958, Yoshiaki Shiraishi opened the first conveyor belt sushi restaurant ( 回転寿司 , kaiten-zushi ) named " Genroku Zushi" in Higashi-Osaka . In conveyor belt sushi restaurants, conveyor belts installed along tables and counters in

3393-565: Is the most popular cuisine in Australia with sushi as the third overall most popular food item, after hot dogs and pizza. Australian sushi has grown in popularity in recent years, with its influence extending beyond Australia into the United Kingdom and United States , which has sparked an online controversy after the opening of Sushi Counter in West Village , New York City . People accused

3480-404: Is the use of salmon. The Japanese have eaten salmon since prehistory; however, caught salmon in nature often contains parasites and must be cooked or cured for its lean meat to be edible. On the other side of the world, in the 1960s and 1970s, Norwegian entrepreneurs started experimenting with aquaculture farming. The big breakthrough was when they figured out how to raise salmon in net pens in

3567-588: Is topped with cheese curds and gravy and contains duck confit , more cheese curds, and sweet potato tempura. Sushi cake is made of crab meat, avocado, shiitake mushroom, salmon, spicy tuna, and tobiko and served on sushi rice, then torched with spicy mayonnaise, barbecue sauce, and balsamic reduction, and dotted with caper and garlic chips. Sushi pizza is deep-fried rice or crab/imitation crab cake topped with mayonnaise and various sushi ingredients. Sinaloan sushi originated in Sinaloa, Mexico and has been available in

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3654-514: Is traditionally eaten by hand in Japan, the outer layer of rice can be quite difficult to handle with fingers. In Brazil uramaki and other sushi pieces commonly include cream cheese in their recipe. Although unheard of in Japanese sushi, this is the most common sushi ingredient used in Brazil. Temaki also often contains a large amount of cream cheese and is extremely popular in restaurants. Multiple-filling rolls inspired by futomaki are

3741-420: Is vinegared sushi rice. Fillings, toppings, condiments, and preparation vary widely. Due to rendaku consonant mutation , sushi is pronounced with zu instead of su when a prefix is attached, as in nigirizushi . Chirashizushi ( ちらし寿司 , "scattered sushi", also referred to as barazushi ) serves the rice in a bowl and tops it with a variety of raw fish and vegetable garnishes. It

3828-511: Is widely available in affordable takeaway joints in Australia. Sushi in Japanese restaurants has existed in Australia since the 1950s, but the first Australian-style sushi only appeared in 1995, in a stall called Sushi-Jin in the Target Centre food court at 246 Bourke Street , Melbourne. The owner, Toshihiro Shindo, started selling takeaway sushi rolls which he adapted to Australian tastes. The store closed in 2008. Till this day, Japanese cuisine

3915-607: The Oxford English Dictionary is in an 1893 book, A Japanese Interior , where it mentions sushi as "a roll of cold rice with fish, sea-weed, or some other flavoring". There is an earlier mention of sushi in James Hepburn 's Japanese–English dictionary from 1873, and an 1879 article on Japanese cookery in the journal Notes and Queries . Despite common misconception among English speakers, sushi does not mean "raw seafood." The common ingredient in all types of sushi

4002-521: The Ginza Kyubey restaurant in 1941; its invention significantly expanded the repertoire of soft toppings used in sushi. Temarizushi ( 手まり寿司 , "ball sushi") is a style of sushi made by pressing rice and fish into a ball-shaped form by hand using a plastic wrap. Oshizushi ( 押し寿司 , "pressed sushi") , also known as hako-zushi ( 箱寿司 , "box sushi") , is a pressed sushi from the Kansai region ,

4089-405: The rainbow roll (an inside-out topped with thinly sliced maguro, hamachi, ebi, sake and avocado) and the caterpillar roll (an inside-out topped with thinly sliced avocado). Also commonly found is the "rock and roll" (an inside-out roll with barbecued freshwater eel and avocado with toasted sesame seeds on the outside). In Japan, uramaki is an uncommon type of makimono ; because sushi

4176-499: The "match-by-combining" mechanics in Triple Town . Reviewers also praised the simplicity of the tutorial and noted how their attention on combining large number tiles contrasted with their need to watch the board's movements as a whole. Ben Kuchera of Polygon wrote that the game was "a brilliant little puzzler" and commented on the difficulty of designing such an accessible minimalist game. Dan Ryckert of Game Informer noted that

4263-590: The "quirky American cousin" to Hundreds 's "European art film", Martin found Threes more whimsical in nature and extended Ian Bogost 's statements in The Atlantic about video games as " haute couture ... design objects" to Threes . Outside developers released games that closely resembled Threes within weeks of its release, including a browser-based version, an "unofficial sort-of-knockoff" Android app ( Fives ), and another iPhone game, 1024 , which advertised itself as "No need to pay for Threes " and

4350-565: The App Store. It later won a 2014 Apple Design Award and was named Apple's best iPhone game of 2014. During the 18th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards , the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Threes for " Mobile Game of the Year " and the " D.I.C.E. Sprite Award ". Reviewers found the game "charming" and "addictive". They compared the game with the luck of Drop7 , the challenge of Stickets , and

4437-514: The Japanese food supplier Nichirei . Other sushi creations to suit the Western palate were initially fueled by the invention of the California roll , a norimaki which presently almost always uses imitation crab (the original recipe calls for real cooked crab), along with avocado and cucumber. A wide variety of popular rolls ( norimaki and uramaki ) have evolved since. 'Norway roll'

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4524-595: The Western United States since 2013. Zach Gage Zach Gage is an independent video game programmer and designer based in New York City. He is known for his iOS games, including SpellTower . Gage learned to code throughout his youth and studied art at Skidmore College and Parsons School of Design , where he created installation and interactive works. With the 2008 opening of Apple 's App Store , Gage created multiple apps and games, including

4611-448: The association. The shape of Inarizushi varies by region. Inarizushi usually has a rectangular shape in Kantō region and a triangle shape in Kansai region . Regional variations include pouches made of a thin omelette ( 帛紗寿司 , fukusa-zushi , or 茶巾寿司 , chakin-zushi ) instead of tofu. It should not be confused with inari maki , a roll filled with flavored fried tofu. Cone sushi

4698-400: The characters for "鮨" and "鮓" are written as a tribute to the Japanese imperial court, and although there are various theories as to what exactly this food was, it is possible that it referred to narezushi . Until the early 19th century, sushi slowly changed with Japanese cuisine. The Japanese started eating three meals a day, rice was boiled instead of steamed, and of large importance was

4785-425: The close to two dozen themes tested in total. Vollmer commented that these ideas made the game feel "unwieldy and unnatural" and that he always preferred the game when the changes were reverted. They received a "wake-up call" from fellow game designer Zach Gage , who encouraged them to return from their foray into complexity. The final game returned to its original theme of numbers. Speaking in retrospect, Wohlwend said

4872-444: The development of rice vinegar . During the Muromachi period (1336–1573), the Japanese invented a style of sushi called namanare or namanari ( 生成、なまなれ、なまなり ), which means "partially fermented". The fermentation period of namanare was shorter than that of the earlier narezushi , and the rice used for fermentation was also eaten with the fish. In other words, with the invention of namanare , sushi changed from

4959-469: The final product in its simplicity: pair tiles as multiples of three. Vollmer considered Drop7 an inspiration for the game, and played it for two years before making his game. The first Threes prototype was written in a single night. With Wohlwend, the two-man development team spent at least half a year of the game's 14-month development iterating on this main idea. Some of the iterations included new numberless visual themes and new game mechanics such as

5046-495: The final version, as tiles have faces and express emotions when paired. For example, the 384 tile has a pirate personality with a large tooth and a pirate eyepatch. Wohlwend has said that the number tiles grow in character with their size. The idea for character faces beneath the cards remained from previous theme iterations, and the character voices were provided by indie game developers. Of the development process, Wohlwend called it "tough and frustrating and sometimes hard to see if it

5133-450: The free smartphone releases. In a post-release infographic, Sirvo wrote that the average game length was 20 minutes, even though they designed the game's sessions to not last longer than 10 minutes. They also reported that 93 percent of players in China used unlicensed copies of the game. To celebrate the 10th anniversary, a PC port was released on Steam on February 6th, 2024. In addition to

5220-443: The game "always wanted to be simple". He noted that players "think math" upon seeing the game's numbers, though the game is more about "spatial relationships" and just happens to have a "number theme". When returning to the fundamental and original game concept—pairing tiles as multiples of three—the developers felt their experiments informed their final game development decisions. The theme of individual tile personalities extended to

5307-439: The game "charming" and "addictive" and compared it to Drop7 , Stickets , and Triple Town . Eurogamer and TouchArcade awarded the game perfect scores, with the latter calling Threes "about as close as it gets to a perfect mobile game". Other developers released similar games and clones within weeks of the game's launch. Apple Inc. named Threes the best iPhone game of 2014. The player slides numbered tiles on

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5394-507: The game as the Commander Keen to their Super Mario Bros. in a 45,000-word post outlining their full 14-month development process. Gamasutra 's Leigh Alexander described the situation as a "unique tragedy". Threes designer Vollmer would try to remove the clones from online stores but ultimately accepted that the game would be copied and resolved that his future games would not share the same fate. Eurogamer listed Threes as one of

5481-493: The game had all of the qualities of a successful mobile game: accessibility of short game sessions, easy to learn and tough to master gameplay, room to make and try strategies, and gameplay mechanics suited for touchscreens . He added that his progressive play strategy adaptations for higher scores made the game joyful. Ars Technica 's Kyle Orland wrote that he expects the game to join Drop7 and Super Hexagon on his phone for

5568-403: The game's scaffolding mechanics to the turn-based roguelike Hoplite , and The Verge 's Andrew Webster compared the game's addictive mechanics to Sudoku and its style to Letterpress and SpellTower . Nick Statt of CNET thought the game had Tetris 's beauty and Dots 's visual appeal. He cited the game as an example of "flow" design principles at work, where the game

5655-430: The grid without letting go. Each kind of number tile has its own personality, and new kinds of number tiles are introduced with a screen full of confetti when first unlocked. Games of Threes typically last several minutes and end when no moves remain on the grid (usually when gridlocked with a single high number tile and many low number tiles). When a game is finished, there is no " game over " screen, but players receive

5742-501: The iOS port of Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy . A collaboration with Choice Provisions (of the Bit.Trip series) manifested as the 2016 strategy game Tharsis . As the systems designer, Gage worked to make the game's elements of chance exciting. Gage also created a card game, Guts of Glory , which he crowdfunded via Kickstarter . He participated in the 2016 Game Developers Conference game design challenge panel and his work

5829-530: The ingredients are either cooked or cured, and raw fish is never used. The name battera means "small boat" in Portuguese (bateira), as the sushi molds resembled small boats. Oshizushi wrapped in persimmon leaves, a specialty of Nara , is known as kakinohazushi ( 柿の葉寿司 ) . Seared oshizushi , or aburi oshizushi ( 炙り押し寿司 ) , is a popular variety invented in Vancouver, BC in 2008. This involves using

5916-509: The latter calling Threes "about as close as it gets to a perfect mobile game". It was an honorable mention in the 2014 Independent Games Festival 's Excellence in Design category. The game reached the top of the Apple App Store paid app sales chart shortly after its release. Re/code reported that it "dominated" the chart in the following weeks and became one of the 25 highest grossing apps on

6003-533: The most commonly recognized type today, in which seafood is placed on hand-pressed vinegared rice. This innovation occurred around 1824 in the Edo period (1603–1867). It was the fast food of the chōnin class in the Edo period. Sushi is traditionally made with medium-grain white rice , although it can also be prepared with brown rice or short-grain rice. It is commonly prepared with seafood, such as squid , eel , yellowtail , salmon , tuna or imitation crab meat . Certain types of sushi are vegetarian. It

6090-487: The overall dish has a sour and umami or savory taste. The term comes from an antiquated し shi terminal-form conjugation, no longer used in other contexts, of the adjectival verb sui ( 酸い , "to be sour") , resulting in the term sushi ( 酸し ) . Narezushi still exists as a regional specialty, notably as funa-zushi from Shiga Prefecture . In the Yōrō Code ( 養老律令 , Yōrō-ritsuryō ) of 718,

6177-490: The owner of cultural appropriation and left negative reviews, prompting to Google to remove all spam ratings from the restaurant location. Many of the styles seen in the United States are also seen in Canada and their own. Doshi (a portmanteau of donut and sushi ) is a donut-shaped rice ball on a deep-fried crab or imitation crab cake topped with sushi ingredients. Maki poutine is similar to makizushi in style except it

6264-487: The rest of his life and Crypt of the NecroDancer designer Ryan Clark called Threes the best iOS game he had ever played. Mark Sorrell of Eurogamer compared the game's "profoundly and offensively banal" aesthetic to a "hipster restaurant" with good food but a smug ambiance, citing the soundtrack's "whimsy" and the art style's similarity to iOS game Letterpress . He praised the game's mechanics. TouchArcade compared

6351-482: The restaurant transport plates of sushi to customers. Generally, the bill is based on the number of plates, with different colored plates representing the price of the sushi. When Genroku Sushi opened a restaurant at the Japan World Exposition, Osaka, 1970 , it won an award at the expo, and conveyor belt sushi restaurants became known throughout Japan. In 1973, an automatic tea dispenser was developed, which

6438-492: The rice prevents the fish from spoiling. When wet-field rice cultivation was introduced during the Yayoi period , lakes and rivers would flood during the rainy season and fish would get caught in the rice paddy fields. Pickling was a way to preserve the excess fish and guarantee food for the following months, and narezushi became an important source of protein for Japanese consumers. The term sushi literally means "sour-tasting", as

6525-581: The sea. Being farm-raised, the Atlantic salmon reportedly showed advantages over the Pacific salmon , such as no parasites, easy animal capture, and could be grown with higher fat content. With government subsidies and improved techniques, they were so successful in raising fatty and parasite-free salmon they ended up with a surplus. Norway has a small population and limited market; therefore, they looked to other countries to export their salmon. The first Norwegian salmon

6612-428: The size of today's nigirizushi . The amount of vinegar used was half that of today's sushi, and the type of vinegar developed during this period, called aka-su ( 赤酢 , "red vinegar") , was made by fermenting sake lees. They also used slightly more salt than in modern times instead of sugar. Seafood served over rice was prepared in a variety of ways. This red vinegar was developed by Nakano Matazaemon (中野 又佐衛門), who

6699-511: The soundtrack is cheerful and memorable with an "indie romcom feel". TouchArcade added that the soundtrack "fits the game perfectly" and recommended playing the game with sound activated so as to hear the tiles' personalities. CNET thought the music became repetitive, but that the tile voices were "a little creepy" without the soundtrack. Garrett Martin of Paste wrote that he heard the influence of Jon Brion and alluded to Paul Thomas Anderson 's early films. Comparing Threes to Hundreds as

6786-403: The standard gameplay of the original release, it includes a new song by Big Giant Circles for Night Mode, Steam Deck Verified Support, keyboard controls, cloud save, and achievements. The game received what video game review score aggregator Metacritic described as "universal acclaim", with a 92% rating based on 19 reviews. Eurogamer and TouchArcade awarded the game perfect scores, with

6873-446: The top 10 games of the generation. Tom's Guide listed Threes as one of the top 30 games of the 2010s. [REDACTED] Media related to Threes at Wikimedia Commons Sushi Sushi ( すし, 寿司, 鮨, 鮓 , pronounced [sɯɕiꜜ] or [sɯꜜɕi] ) is a traditional Japanese dish made with vinegared rice ( 鮨飯 , sushi-meshi ) , typically seasoned with sugar and salt , and combined with

6960-471: The word games SpellTower (2011), TypeShift (2017), and collaborative work on Vlambeer 's 2013 Ridiculous Fishing and Bennett Foddy 's 2017 Getting Over It iOS port . Gage also created multiple games based on playing card and board games , including Really Bad Chess (2016). Zach Gage was raised in Westchester, New York. His mother allowed few game purchases in their house, and coming from

7047-519: Was imported into Japan in 1980, accepted conventionally, for grilling, not for sushi. Salmon had already been consumed in North America as an ingredient in sushi as early as the 1970s. Salmon sushi did not become widely accepted in Japan until a successful marketing partnership in the late 1980s between Bjorn Eirik Olsen, a Norwegian businessman tasked with helping the Norwegian salmon industry glut, and

7134-676: Was later hired to program an installation piece similar to his thesis for an exhibition at the Venice Biennale , which encouraged him to attempt new projects headlong. Back in New York, he completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Parsons School of Design , with a thesis show of multiple works on the relationship between data and the Internet. In its most infamous piece, Lose/Lose , the player shot on-screen aliens, each of which corresponded to

7221-505: Was later ported to a browser version. A March 2014 clone of 1024 , the browser game 2048 , became popular and spawned "dozens of parodies". Journalists, including those at the Los Angeles Times , did not acknowledge the game's connection to Threes . The Threes team was "puzzled" by the popularity of these releases, especially those that did not credit their game for the idea. They criticized 2048 's game design and compared

7308-537: Was made to preserve freshwater fish , possibly in the Mekong River basin, which is now Laos , Cambodia , Thailand , and Vietnam , and in the Irrawaddy River basin, which is now Myanmar . The first mention of a narezushi -like food is in a Chinese dictionary thought to be from the 4th century, in this instance referring to salted fish that had been placed in cooked or steamed rice, which caused it to undergo

7395-526: Was originally announced at Microsoft's E3 2014 press conference, and released on December 5, 2014. The release supports the console's "snap mode" (to play in the corner of the screen while the player watches something else) as well as online leaderboards and a "night mode" darker palette option. A free Windows Phone version was released on April 27, 2015, and a free web browser version in December 2015. The browser release does not include advertisements, unlike

7482-555: Was such a small game, it was four by four grid, and numbers, and just the four directions. It always wanted to be simple. Threes was conceived by game designer Asher Vollmer, who worked on the game with artist Greg Wohlwend and composer Jimmy Hinson . The three, as Sirvo LLC, had previously collaborated on the 2012 iOS word game Puzzlejuice . Wohlwend had worked on games including Ridiculous Fishing and Hundreds . Threes development began before Ridiculous Fishing 's March 2013 release. Vollmer presented an idea similar to

7569-443: Was worth it". Vollmer credited thatgamecompany for teaching him applicable lessons of restraint during his time there. The game was released by Sirvo for iOS on February 6, 2014, and ported by indie developer Hidden Variable Studios for Android on March 12, 2014. The team chose to release for iOS first due to the small team's difficulty testing across Android platforms . Hidden Variable also developed an Xbox One version, which

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