Dejin
1961
El Alamein game by Charles S. Roberts Hall of Fame Award winning Game Designer Mark Herman added for $20 donations or higher.
I signed up for twenty clams. First time on Kickstarter, but this seems pretty cool. Certainly worth the chance.
I’m interested in hearing the report on this game. I can’t determine enough through screenshots with this one.
I started playing Hero Academy and would like to get some games in before I think about trying the tournament. I have a bunch of people here on Gamecenter already but if we’re not friends my ID is Hypnotoad42.
Yggdrasil plays very well on the iPad. It’s a really good port of the board game (aside from some sloppy English translation issues). If the iPad keeps getting all these great board game conversions I may be selling off a lot of my board game collection. When the choice is between all the time involved in dragging a board game out and setting up all the pieces and shuffling cards vs turning on the iPad and starting in less than a minute, I know what choice I’d make.
Not to mention $1-10 is a lot more palatable than $40-100.
Plus:
- Easier to store than hundreds of large boxes
- Zilch setup or cleanup time
- Often has some kind of AI for a quick game when nobody is around or to refresh yourself on the rules rather than just reading a rulebook
- Online play makes it easier on us folks that are dead center of the raising family/ married which was murder pre-internet boardgame days for gaming groups
- Sound effects (to build on atmosphere) Come on, who doesnt giggle now and then when you kill a few cultists in a row in Ascension?
- Animations
The only real negatives (which vary from game to game)
- limited iterations of the physical games (smaller player count, types of sides, ect)
- lack of asynchronous or continuous multiplayer (depending on your preference)
- crippled AI that can’t even pass as a strawman when humans are not available
- (and this is a big one) Mirco transactions as a lot of companies are getting on the freemium boat
I came to believe that an ipad was mandatory for a mid-life board gamer. After getting one, I still feel that way.
Dejin
1969
I also think that current tablets are really too small for many board games. For boardgames I’d really like something like the Microsoft Surface. Clearly far too expensive by today’s standards, but maybe someday we’ll all have something like that.
Tony_M
1970
The popularity of the iPad makes me hopeful someone will be motivated to create an affordable version of the Microsoft Surface. An electronic board/roleplaying game that you can roll real dice on sounds heavenly. Plus business and education would want them too.
This is not really a negative when comparing to a RL boardgame. In RL, when humans are not available, you can’t play. With an iPad, you can at least play/practice against a crippled AI. It’s a positive, not negative.
Just to nitpick. :)
I second the too small negative, but it’s something Surface doesn’t solve without undoing some positives (portability, mostly).
Sorry, not sure how to deal with the separate iPhone/iPad threads. I’m just going to post in the thread for the clearly superior platform!
The new-ish fantasy bird combat simulator and explor-o-rama Crow is $.99 on the app store. (The irritating fact that I bought it the night before for $2.99 does not impact the content of the following review.)
Man, I was looking forward to this. Partially thanks to an ecstatic Kotaku review. The concept is just so compelling. But the game is disappointing. I mean, is it too much to expect that a game about crows should have a convincing flying animation? Navigating the map is confusing and it has the problem of not too little direction but the wrong direction. I just didn’t know what I was looking for, or even what I had accomplished after I had accomplished it! And maybe I can blame this on an iPad hiccup, but boy was it annoying: You are asked to make a kind of binary “ethical” choice after each boss battle–except when I got to the (totally unexpected and unexplained) screen, one option showed up while the other waited for awhile to appear; long enough for me to press the first not knowing there even was an option. If there’s any screen you want people to know their options, it’s that one! Well, the combat/navigation levels are the best part, although some are better than others.
Overall, deep disappointment, I’m sorry to say.
Ascension: Soul of Storms is now available! Also an update for the first two versions, plus Retina support!
So my lovely wife is getting me an ipad for my birthday this weekend. What’s the verdict on the new iPad vs the iPad 2? Is it worth the extra $100? I heard some games and apps aren’t running as well or that games are having graphic features cut on the 3rd Gen iPad because of the increased resolution - is that a widespread problem or poor optimization on a few outliers?
Clay
1976
My wife has a new one and I have one that is 6 months old. Get the new one. Your reading eyes will thank you for spending the extra $100.
Not an issue, and I’ve been building up a solid iPad game collection.
Spend the extra $100 if you intend to do any reading on it. It’s a big difference over any significant amount of time spent with text.
nKoan
1978
The new one is definitely worth the extra $100. Retina display, plus extra ram, plus the dual core GPU make it worth it IMO.
I agree. The iPad3 is worth it.
No reason not to go for the new iPad unless an extra $100 is a burden.
