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Big Beam, for phones, tablets and the web.

Contact

Report an ad

If an ad in Big Beam is inappropriate, or wrong for the game's age rating, email chrismirz+bigbeam@gmail.com. Say what it showed and when you saw it. A screenshot helps.

How to play

Hold anywhere to fire the beam. Every blob it crosses doubles, and a gold blob makes three. Contact bombs go off only while the beam fires, so let go as it meets one; timer bombs go off on their own when the fuse runs out. Reach the level's blob count before the time runs out. A quicker clear earns more stars, and three stars need a quick clear without setting off a bomb with the beam.

No sound?

Check Sound on the title screen or in the pause menu, and that the phone's media volume is up (on iPhone, that silent mode is off too). The game goes quiet on its own while it's in the background.

Your progress

Your levels, stars and best score are kept on this device only. Deleting the app, or clearing Big Beam's data in your browser, removes them, and they don't move to a new phone on their own.

To keep a copy, tap Back up on the title screen or in the pause menu, then Share backup link: send the link to yourself or keep it in your notes. To restore, open the link on any phone, or on this one after its data is cleared, and Big Beam loads the progress in it. Big Beam on an iPhone home screen keeps its progress apart from Safari, so there, copy the link, open Big Beam, tap Back up, paste the link and tap Restore. If that phone already has progress, you keep the best of both: the furthest level, the best score and the most stars on each level. That phone keeps its own sound and vibration settings.

The link holds your progress itself, so anyone who has it can load that progress. It's only a copy of your progress when you made it: back up again after you play to keep it up to date.

Leaderboards

Tap your rank at the top of the title screen. Week and Month count the stars you win in that week or month. A level you clear for the first time counts its stars, and a better result on a level you've cleared counts the extra stars. All counts your best on every level (and any Daily Beam you played), and New ranks this month's new players. Weeks start on Monday at 12am Sydney time, and months on the 1st. Stars can't be bought. A player who owns the Big Beam Pack has a glowing row on every board; it changes no rank.

You join the first time you play a level, under a name the game picks. To change it, tap Rename, choose two words or tap Shuffle, then Use this name. To leave the boards, tap Remove me from the boards on the same card. Your place on the boards moves to a new phone with your backup link. If the clear card says Update your Big Beam app, update the app, then play again to count your stars.

Leaderboards: ranks and prizes

Your rank on the title screen is your place on this month's board and its tier. The top 30 are Diamond, then the top 10% of the month's players Platinum, the top 25% Gold and the top 50% Silver; everyone else with a star this month is Bronze. Until you win a star this month you're Unranked. With no connection, the title shows the last rank the server gave, marked Offline.

Each month the top 30 win skins made for that month: the top 3 its beam, blob and trail, the top 10 its blob and trail, and the top 30 its trail. They're never sold. The board closes at 12am Sydney time on the 1st, and prizes are given from 12am Sydney time on the 2nd; the next time you open the game it shows where you finished, and the skins are in Skins. The full rules are on the Monthly Prizes page.