Indie Brazilian developers Aleph Games will launch their very first game, AntBlox, in the App Store on March 30th. AntBlox is described as a physics puzzle game, that takes full advantage of the iPhone’s touchscreen. Players select and drop geometric blocks to build a path from the protagonist, a hungry ant, towards its goal of an apple.

If you don’t have an iPhone, or just want a peek at the game before the official launch, you can play the web version of AntBlox here.

From their press release:

Focused on games and 3D applications, with playful interface that seeks to introduce innovative gameplay, Aleph Games launches on March 30 its first game for the platform of the iPhone and iPod Touch. The game was already accepted for sale in AppStore.

Through a series of games in the curious world of ants programmed for the future, Aleph, a technology enterprise from Brazil, choose for first release the game AntBlox, a set of physical simulation for iPhone and iPod Touch. One reason for the choice of the physical puzzle with ants was the success of this type of game, which is modeled on the World of Goo and Crayon Physics.

The history of AntBlox is simple — the focus of the game is the gameplay, the experience of gameplay. In it, the ant Antonia feeds on special apples. But apples are in different places, and build a path to it is not always easy.

The goal in each stage is to help the ant to reach the apple. For this, the player must build the road blocks. When you release the blocks, they fall to the ground, so when they are released is important. In addition, phases with earthquake, mud, among many others, make it more difficult to mount the path.

“The game takes advantage of the innovations of the iPhone / iPod touch, using the accelerometer as a method of interaction, with which the player controls where the blocks are falling,” said Maicon Brauwers, one of the creators of the game. But the Aleph Games team is already thinking about the next game “where the player will have to grow your nest, fight other insects, and even dominating other holes,” said Brauwers.

[Source: GameRelease.net and Aleph Games]