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Gabe Alvaro
United States
Berkeley
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• Days of Wonder Updates Ticket To Ride Pocket, Adds Game Center Async and Improved Local Mode - February 2
You asked for it and Days of Wonder has listened! Ticket To Ride Pocket for iPhone/iPod has been updated to version 1.1. Now you can play Ticket To Ride Pocket asynchronously through Apple's Game Center in iOS 5. Additionally, Days of Wonder has updated Ticket to Ride, the original app for iPad, to support connection over WiFi or Bluetooth in an improved local mode. Roadtrip anyone? Here is the press release from the always delightfully surprising Days of Wonder:
Quote: Ticket to Ride Pocket Adds New Multi-game Multiplayer Mode
GameCenter Update to Best-Selling Board Game lets Trainiacs play multiple simultaneous games against friends on iPhone and iPod Touch
Los Altos, CA; Paris, France – February 2, 2012. Days of Wonder today announced a major update to their best-selling iPhone/iPod Touch board game Ticket to Ride® Pocket, letting players challenge friends in Apple’s GameCenter for the first time. With this update, players can play multiple simultaneous games against their friends around the world, with support for up to 4 online friends in each game. Most importantly, this new game mode supports asynchronous gameplay, letting players switch from game to game and even to other apps without losing their progress.
“This is the update Ticket to Ride players have been clamoring for since we released Ticket to Ride Pocket.” Said Eric Hautemont, Days of Wonder Founder and CEO. “We love online gameplay, but faced a challenge: ‘how do you create a great online experience on a device like the phone that is constantly being used for other functions?’ We needed to build an experience where players could come and go as they please yet have something meaningful to do when they played; the thought of having multiple games going at once was what convinced us this could work. With Multi Mode, we’ve given players what they want without compromising on the gameplay that made Ticket to Ride so popular to begin with.”
In addition to Multi Mode, Ticket to Ride Pocket allows players to play against nearby friends via an improved “Local Mode”. When connected via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, players can play against each other using any combination of iPhones, iPod Touch devices and even iPads to start spur of the moment games that bring the old school “family game night” into the digital age. And for those that prefer to play alone, 4 AI personalities, 20 unique achievements recognizing the players’ in-game accomplishments and 3 distinct leader boards all await dedicated Ticket to Ride solo players.
Days of Wonder simultaneously released an update to the iPad version of Ticket to Ride to ensure compatibility with the improved Local Mode included in this new Ticket to Ride Pocket release.
Ticket to Ride Pocket is available in the App Store for $1.99/€1.59 from the App Store on the iPhone and iPod Touch or at http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Smq3RC8yf5I&offe....
So in case it is not clear, Ticket To Ride Pocket will now support online asynchronous and quasi-realtime play (possible delay of 1 sec for turn updates) through Apple's Game Center. While Ticket to Ride (the iPad app) will use the DoW online realtime servers for its online play. Both devices can now be used together to play a locally networked game over Wifi or Bluetooth.
Ticket To Ride Pocket: http://itunes.apple.com/app/ticket-to-ride-pocket/id47185798...
Ticket To Ride: http://itunes.apple.com/app/ticket-to-ride/id432504470
And here are some screenshots which you can click to view in gorgeous high resolution:
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