Among the best things in life is playing printed games in person with family and close friends. When those are not convenient we like iOS Board Games.
News, reviews, previews, and opinions about board gaming on iPhones, iPads, iPods and even Android devices. (iPhone board games, iPad board games, iPod board games, Android board games)
• Chameleon Released • Gravity Wins Updated • Rattus Shuffle Released • Spiel 2011 app Released • Word Fighter Coming Soon • Through the Desert Update • Hanging with Friends Released and Updated • Words with Friends Updated • Okey Online Released, Okey updated • Boardgamegeek App Updated • German Eagle vs. Russian Bear Updated • Jenga Updated • Android Apps on your Ipad? • Android Apps on your Windows machine?
• Chameleon Released - September 12 Publisher / Developer Blackrock Editions brings cardboard to pixels with an Android version of their game Chameleon. This game merges the quick-grabbyness of Jungle Speed with the goal matching of Fluxx in a fast playing card game.
• Gravity Wins Updated - September 21 Search for Connect Four in the app store and you will get hundreds of apps simulating that game. Gravity Wins by developer Andlabs separates itself from the others with an interesting twist. As players play their pieces, a move counter counts down to zero. Once that counter is exhausted, the board rotates 90 degrees and the pieces fall to what is now the bottom of the board, and play continutes until someone gets four in a row. September 21 brought an update to this game, which includes the following:
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What's in this version: added new GameMode: SinglePlayer(vs Computer) new Menu Designs new AI-Levels added added Tooltips added HeyZap (cool new Gameportal) Couple Bugfixes that Players have reported
• Rattus Shuffle Released - October 5 White Goblin Games releases a companion app on Android for their game Rattus. Rattus Shuffle selects the cards you will play with from all available expansions you own for Rattus. According to White Goblin, there are 652,458,240 different possibilities, and the app includes the latest expansion Rattus: Africanus that they are releasing at Spiel 2011 in Essen.
• Spiel 2011 app by BGG user Peter Feigl Speaking of Essen, if you do find yourself going this year, check out Peter Feigl's app in this thread for managing your favorite must see games of Spiel this year. Since Peter, BGG user ecraven, is offering this for download from his website, at http://www.nexoid.at/essen2011/Essen2011.apk, and not the google market, make sure to allow for non-market apps to be installed to your device. More info on installing non-market apps, please refer back to my previous post on Third Party App Stores
• Word Fighter from Developer Feel Every Yummy - Coming Fall 2011 Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Not true, think the developers of the upcoming game Word Fighter. Literary characters fight Mortal Kombat style, with their moves being fueled by a fast paced head to head Boggle-like play. Reported to be coming out in the fall from developer Feel Every Yummy. Source:http://feeleveryyummy.com/ Here is their Coming Soon Trailer:
• Through the Desert Update - October 7 Developer Tribeflame gives a little hustle to the artificial intelligence in the latest update to Reiner Kinzia’s Through the Desert. Faster AI and Fixes for Multicore CPUs
• Hanging with Friends - September 19 & 29 On September 19th, Zynga, the developer of the popular Words with Friends, released Hanging with Friends, their Scrabble-inspired Hangman game. Instead of gory imagery of executions, in their version of Hangman no noose is good noose. Players play each other hanging on to a bunch of balloons. The balloons pop with each word between players that is not guessed. As similar Scrabble-style tiles are used to form the words, the value of the letters, as well as random bonus spaces determine score. September 29 brought an update to add Facebook login fixes and overall stability fixes.
• Words with Friends Updated - September 27 Zynga also updates Words with Friends... Here is what they have to update
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What's in this version: Galloping at break-neck speeds, release 4.03 travels day and night to bring you a message! Now, when friends send you a chat, you'll receive a notification! 4.03 blazes trails through the thorny underbrush! Behind-the scenes optimizations to performance!
• Okey Online Released, normal Okey updated - September 30 Developer Globile releases an online version of their Okey app. Okey is a rummy game in the Rummykub family. Okey Online takes the same gameplay as the normal Okey app, and add connections to a internet game server to look for human opponents. If not humans are available, bots enter the game. The regular Okey app, which is only solo play againsta AI, gets an update with bug fixes.
• Boardgamegeek App by developers Chris Comeaux and Dennis Bond Updated - October 15 This app, which has already been a good app to check BGG to get basic game information while on the go or to log a game play, just got a big update. This update brings the ability to read the BGG forums, and game forums. Read only, no posting. But the perfect thing to get your BGG fix while away from home or work. More info on the app from its developers, Chris (ccomeaux) and Dennis (rjnfc) in a thread about the app here.
• German Eagle vs. Russian Bear Updated - October 2 Wargame fans, DK Simulations updates its game German Eagle vs. Russian Bear which is Operation Barbarossa as a hex and counter wargame. This latest update to version 8.0 fixes bugs.
CROSS PLATFORM MULTIPLAYER Multiplayer just got better! If you have friends playing on other mobile devices you can now also enjoy playing against them too. CHAT Send a text message to your opponent with each move in an Online game. Try to be nice though, being nice is a nice thing to do. XP Levels Now every move and every completed game in Online earns you XP. Level up through a series of XP Levels. Can you make it from Sawdust Sweeper to Grand Axe Master?
• Android Apps on your Ipad? Well, not quite. Developer Myriad as created the ability to run Android Apps on other platforms called Alien Dalvik. Circulating on the internet has been the announcement that they planned to show this at a convention for the wireless telecommunications industry called CTIA. While quite a technical achievement, there is no guarantee that this will come to iOS, as Apple has generally frowned on emulators and apps where additional content could be loaded without Apple’s vetting. For example, earlier this summer, Apple forced ebook vendors Amazon and Barnes and Noble to remove the ability to buy ebooks directly from their apps. Who knows what they will think of Alien Dalvik? http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/alien-dalvik-2-0-promise... http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/10/hands-on-with-myriads-ali... http://www.myriadgroup.com/Device-Manufacturers/Android-solu...
• Android Apps on your Windows machine? Yes... Another company, named Blue Stacks Inc. has created a program to run Android apps on your Windows 7 PC. Unlike Alien Dalvik above, this project has something for you to try out if you want. Currently in Alpha, there is a download on the Blue Stacks website that comes installed with 26 Apps preinstalled, with the ability to download your own. More info on their website. http://www.bluestacks.com/tour.php http://www.bluestacks.com/download.html
Instead of gory imagery of executions, in their version of Hangman no noose is good noose. Players play each other hanging on to a bunch of balloons. The balloons pop with each word between players that is not guessed.
And then when all your balloons pop, you fall into lava from a volcano in the background.
"Developer Myriad as created the ability to run Android Apps on other platforms called Alien Dalvik. Circulating on the internet has been the announcement that they planned to show this at a convention for the wireless telecommunications industry called CTIA. While quite a technical achievement, there is no guarantee that this will come to iOS, as Apple has generally frowned on emulators and apps where additional content could be loaded without Apple’s vetting. For example, earlier this summer, Apple forced ebook vendors Amazon and Barnes and Noble to remove the ability to buy ebooks directly from their apps. Who knows what they will think of Alien Dalvik?"
And.....who cares what Apple thinks. Just Jailbreak your iPhone/iPod/iPad and you can stop that nonsense. It's shit like this that pisses me off.
CROSS PLATFORM MULTIPLAYER Multiplayer just got better! If you have friends playing on other mobile devices you can now also enjoy playing against them too.
Hmmm. Which other mobile devices? Not seeing a corresponding update on the iOS side.
(Sorry. The Elder Sign news announced yesterday did not make the time cut off for our post. I will, however, repeat it here for those who haven't heard.)
(Sorry. The Elder Sign news announced yesterday did not make the time cut off for our post. I will, however, repeat it here for those who haven't heard.)
(Sorry. The Elder Sign news announced yesterday did not make the time cut off for our post. I will, however, repeat it here for those who haven't heard.)
Can someone contact the Through the Desert people and tell them to get rid of the "camels moving into place" animations? Makes the game take 500% as long to play, for no good reason. At least provide the option for quick moves.
It would be great if there was a way to split off the iOS posts from the android ones. Would it be possible to separate the blogs and allow those without the other devices to skip news that doesn't apply to them?
It would be great if there was a way to split off the iOS posts from the android ones. Would it be possible to separate the blogs and allow those without the other devices to skip news that doesn't apply to them?
It would be great if the output and quality of Android board games were great enough for us, or even someone else, to start an entirely separate blog about it. Android's not there yet. Until it is we're going to keep it here in our rear-view mirror.
who cares what Apple thinks. Just Jailbreak your iPhone/iPod/iPad and you can stop that nonsense.
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now we need an application that allows you to run iOS apps on your Android.
It's funny how developers find ways around limits in technology. My opinion is eventually we will see emulators that will run iOS on Android and vice versa, even if it is not officially sanctioned by the various companies involved.
That being said, we are getting closer to where it is not needed as much. As both platforms mature, so do the authoring tools. Developers don't always want to develop an app twice, so many are turning to tools where they write the app in a neutral language, and the tool will make the binaries for different platforms. One example of such a tool is PhoneGap ( http://www.phonegap.com/)
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agent easy wrote:
It would be great if there was a way to split off the iOS posts from the android ones. Would it be possible to separate the blogs and allow those without the other devices to skip news that doesn't apply to them?
Yeah it is called, don't read it. The title plainly discloses which phone OS the news is about.
It would be great if there was a way to split off the iOS posts from the android ones. Would it be possible to separate the blogs and allow those without the other devices to skip news that doesn't apply to them?
Yeah it is called, don't read it. The title plainly discloses which phone OS the news is about.
• Boardgamegeek App by developers Chris Comeaux and Dennis Bond Updated - October 15 This app, which has already been a good app to check BGG to get basic game information while on the go or to log a game play, just got a big update. This update brings the ability to read the BGG forums, and game forums. Read only, no posting. But the perfect thing to get your BGG fix while away from home or work. More info on the app from its developers, Chris (ccomeaux) and Dennis (rjnfc) in a thread about the app here.
This isn't just Dennis and me. Also contributing to this project are:
It would be great if there was a way to split off the iOS posts from the android ones. Would it be possible to separate the blogs and allow those without the other devices to skip news that doesn't apply to them?
Thanks!
when android announced for this blog, bgg admin stated android would be split out into another blog. can't wait for this to happen either!
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RE: Apple forcing Amazon and B&N to remove purchase feature from apps
Not exactly. Apple's rules are that they get a 30% cut of purchases made on their platform, even if it's inside your app. My understanding is that Amazon elected to remove the feature rather than pay the commission.
Whether you feel that Apple getting a 30% cut of purchases made through their products/platforms is fair is another story.
I agree the blog name is misleading. I always skip over things that say Ios.
I get not wanting to make two seperate columns, but could we at least change the column title to something neutral like Mobile Board Games? I too tend to click right past anything that says iOS and I find it more than a bit odd that I get my android news from a column called iOS...
Rattus Shuffle Free in the Android Market
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