iPhone Board Games
Alexander Zhang
United States
West Haven
Connecticut
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The past few years have seen the fast spread of iPhones, iTouch and their users worldwide (80+ countries.) They are both portable internet interfaces and computers, enabling their users to access BGG from virtually anywhere they have a wireless phone or wifi connection. Now join the iPad users as well!
With the coming of the iPhone and iPad also came a surge of gaming opportunities. First with online web apps and now with an SDK to allow true app development, its internet interface allows a wide variety of gaming opportunities.
This list is also dedicated to encouraging new development of future games, hopefully of the multi-player networked variety. What will not be included are apps which require breaking ("jailbreaking") of iPhones.
What I would like to see: More board game implementations, especially Euros. Now that Germany, France and the UK are getting iDevices, I'm hoping we won't have to wait too much longer. Above all, less 1-player games and more multi-player network games. (I thinking of live and move-by-move gameplay with my friends in other parts of the world.)
Since there are hundreds of thousands of iPhone apps in the AppStore (and who knows how many webapps), this is by no means an attempt to document them all - just a mention or tip of the hat to the cream of the crop and the rare solo attempts.
If you didn't brick up your iPhone on the last firmware update... if your game table is an iPhone... sit back and enjoy a few board games. Please feel free to add the ones I've missed, comment on ones I've listed and, in general, push the field of mobile gaming forward in a positive manner.
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Matthieu BONIN
France
Villeurbanne
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Romi Pro ($1.99)
"Romi lets you play Rummy Tile (RummyCube, Rummikub, Rami) games against the computer.
Romi is played with two sets of 52 cards and with two wild cards. The purpose of this game is to form groups of three or more cards, which contain either consecutive cards of the same suit or cards of the same number value but of differing suits.
- You can play Romi at three levels.
- You can play against one to three Romi players."
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The Grouch
United States
Tucson
Arizona
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Just go to the forums for the game here on BGG for details and a link.
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Chris Schenck
United States
Dayton
Ohio
GO BUCKS!
Stop touching me!
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ANIMAL CHESS
(An implementation of Dou Shou Qi)
Free version includes Easy level.
Pay version includes 3 higher levels of difficulty.
(Found by MWil)
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Board Game: Risk
[Average Rating:5.62 Overall Rank:6469]
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I'm putting this under Risk, although the game I'm referring to is quite different but shares some similarities.
Strategery (iTunes link) is a nice, simple strategy game played on a randomly generated board of hexes. You place armies like in Risk and attack by rolling dice. It's fun and quite addictive, and a well designed app. And, best of all, you can download a "lite" version that is nearly the same as the full version! The full version adds a hard and brutal mode, some specific game modes, and allows you to redeploy your reserves yourself, in stead of random.
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Bill H
United States
Absecon
New Jersey
You can't take the sky from me!
"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation." LP Jacks
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Hasbro/EA Yahtzee Adventures allows you to play several variations of the classic game against animated opponents or friends (pass the phone).
The variations of Yahtzee present include:
Classic: plain vanilla Yahtzee
Rainbow: each die turns one of 3 colors; like Yahtzee but players may also score "color flushes"
Duplicate: basically Challenge Yahtzee; same random rolls are used for all players
Battle: Players start with 100 points; "Bottom half" (straights, 3/4 of kind, etc.) take points from opponents while "top half" (1,2...6) heal you. Eliminate opponents by driving their scores to 0.
There's a story mode where each variation is introduced, or you can just jump into one of the above games.
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Eric Selander
United States
Ooltewah
Tennessee
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I noticed this on sale today for $0.99. For that price, I am probably going to download it, although I've never played the original game, and I can't speak to the quality of the iPhone version.
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Panda Z
Australia
Canberra
ACT
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The app is called 'Domino'
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Board Game: UNO
[Average Rating:5.31 Overall Rank:7792]
Panda Z
Australia
Canberra
ACT
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The classic card game also made it to the iPhone
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Panda Z
Australia
Canberra
ACT
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For those fans of the questioning games.
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Scrumpy Jack
United Kingdom
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http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Smq3RC8yf5I&offe...
Very mixed reviews.
Not sure if it's an official port; "Based on the extremely popular and widely recognized PASS THE PIGS brand", whatever "based on" means.
Not impressed with the latest update:
"What's New in Version 1.1.21
Get More Games Link."
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Posted Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:14 am
