That maze isn't big enough for the both of them.

Ho-hum. Another day at the App Store, another game in which you’re a bee who rolls through mazes to collect flowers and rescue frozen fruit from critters that would love to squash you good. Wait, wha? Dizzy Bee is here, and it’s a charming game for the iPhone and iPod touch that’s easy to pick up and play but hard to master.

You control your bee with the accelerometer, tilting back and forth to roll toward your goals (sort of like a 2D Super Monkey Ball). Trouble is, tilting moves everything in the game that isn’t nailed down, including your enemies. You’ll have to be quick and clever to keep from rolling yourself, or your fruit friends, right into a bad guy’s clutches. Using a maze’s design against the bad guys can make all the difference. Fortunately, the controls and bouncy physics work great and feel right. There’s plenty of “Just one more game…” appeal, and Dizzy Bee keeps track of how well you do in each maze, so there’s replay value in revisiting every one to get the highest rank.

However, this bee has a few stingers. As with any game that involves few or no taps on your iPhone or iPod touch’s screen, you’ll have to double check your device’s Auto-Lock settings to make sure the screen doesn’t go dark unexpectedly while you’re playing. At harder levels, having to suddenly make an emergency tap just to wake up the screen is literally a buzz kill.

Similarly, Dizzy Bee’s accelerometer control works best when your iPhone or iPod touch is held vertically. If your device is held too flat in your hand, the game flashes a subtle warning. Hold your device flat for too long, and Dizzy Bee pauses play and puts an admonishing dialog box smack in the middle of the maze. Resuming the game requires you to tap the dialog box, which gets to be a drag. Depending on your playing style, it can be hard not to hold your iPhone or iPod touch flat to make certain maneuvers or to slow down your bee. We’d like Dizzy Bee even more if we could turn off the dialog box completely with an in-game setting.