Jewels
Looking for support? Read the instructions from down below before emailing me. Thanks! 
Jewels is my latest creation – a simple yet polished match-3 game similar to the original Bejeweled and the Russian game Shariki. The game has been available for the Google Android -platform for a good while through the Android Market, and is now available at the App Store as well for Apple devices! It has gathered lots of active players and is in the top-3 free games for Android! Try it if you like puzzle / match-3 games, it can be quite addictive! It’s free (although ad-supported) as well.
Jewels is finally available on the App Store, for iPhone and iPod touch (also works with iPad), with several improvements over the Android-version. More information below!
iJewels for iOS features:
- Colorful, crisp graphics
(pixel perfect support for the Retina Display!) - Smooth and polished game play
(runs nicely at around 60 FPS on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, but also works fine on older devices) - Global High Scores / Leaderboards (cross-platform) — compete with players around the world! (courtesy of Scoreloop)
- Game Center support, too!
(on iPhone 3GS or later, iPod touch 2nd gen. or later, running iOS 4.1) - Four game modes: Normal, Timed, Quick and Infinite
- Calm and soothing music, including more intensive tracks for the Timed-mode
- Supports iOS multitasking / fast app switching, automatically saves the game state on older OS versions as well
Jewels for Android features:
- Global High Scores / Leaderboards (cross-platform) — compete with players around the world! (courtesy of Scoreloop)
- Three game modes: Normal, Timed and Infinite
- Nice, clean graphics and polished game play
There is also the original PC-version of Jewels, done in 2007 as an exercise in XNA / C# programming. However, I will most definitely recommend the Android-version, as the game works quite a lot better as a casual mobile game.
Downloads
Android
Download Jewels for Android (through AppBrain)
Download Jewels for Android (through Amazon Appstore)
Jewels for Android on Android Market
Don’t let the “> 250,000 downloads” fool you, the actual number is over 14 million downloads (as of May 2011).. 
iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
iJewels is the Jewels for iPhone, iPod touch + iPad, and it has several improvements over the Android-version. It is available for free on the App Store, right now!
Download iJewels (through the App Store)
Windows
Remember to read the README for installation instructions, I will not be providing more support for this! It should work when you do the installation correctly.
Download Jewels v1.0 (installer) (2.0 MB, Windows only)
Download Jewels v1.0 (zip) (2.5 MB, Windows only)
Screenshots
Support
Before contacting me for support, make sure you read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list completely. Read the FAQ from here. I will not answer any questions that are answered on the FAQ. I cannot promise an answer in any case, as I get lots of Jewels-related mail every day — I just don’t have the time. Also, if your question is related to the game mechanics, please read the included Help (Main menu -> More… -> Help).
After you have read the FAQ (and the Help), you can contact me at the following address for support. Do include which phone you’re on / are you running the Android-version or the iOS-version, and other details that might help. Saying “the game freezes!” doesn’t help anyone, you need to specify where it freezes and how, if it can be reproduced, etc. Thanks for understanding.
Hi,
I have looked at your code for the game. I think it’s great.
I having been thinking about using some of your code to make a match 3 engine that could be used for anything of match 3 board.
Sure, go right ahead.
Hey Mika,
Have you use the playfirst sdk anything?
Nope, never heard of the thing actually.
Just want to know.
It’s been used on about 100+ casual game titles.
Hello Mika,great job with all your projects. I have one question that i hope you can help me answer. I am new to c# and to xna but i have a fair level in coding in c++. i try looking up tutorials for xna which just show me how to do a simple 2dgame. I wanted to try to make my own puzzle game or bejewled clone like your self but i can not locate any tutorials on this subject. Do you know any. it seems that majority of the books tell me to develop a puzzle game to start off with but i cant find the material. do you no of any that can help me?
Hi, I don’t know of any such tutorials, except the one that comes with XNA (or it might have needed to be downloaded separately, can’t remember). And that’s a sample rather than a tutorial, actually. You could also check out Ziggyware.
I love Jewels! I am addicted to it but on the Eris, I can only play 2 new timed games then my screen freezes…HELP!
Thank you for your comment, and sorry about the problems! While it works perfectly well on my HTC Hero (and many more phones as well), there are also quite a lot of different problems on different phones. I’ll try to do what I can to fix some of those problems.
Thanks! Now I can play multiple games on Eris without the screen freezing!
Hi, I downloaded Jewels and had a great time with it but after playing, it caused a problem with Taskiller. Taskiller would force close after every session of Jewels. Just wanted you to know and hopefully find a solution. Thanks.
We just reviewed Jewels on androGAMER.com Keep up the good work, it’s a great game!
Thank you for your review, it was a nice read!
Hi Mike,
Just wanted to let you know you’ve done a wonderful job with this app for my new Motorola Droid. It works very well and is quite addicting! I find I’m wasting too much time with it – my fault of course. Good job.