Reiner Knizia is a masterful board game designer, and his games make for excellent video game adaptations as well. I still play titles such as Samurai and Through the Desert today on my iPad, years after I downloaded them for the first time. And there’s a Kickstarter that has been…
Read MoreMany people might not realise this, but games and mathematics go hand-in-hand. Understanding statistics, geometry and physics are all intimately involved in creating a balanced – and ultimately entertaining – game experience. Alexey Pajintov knows his way around advanced mathematics, and came up with the OCD classic, Tetris. Erno Rubik…
Read MoreMany people might not realise this, but games and mathematics go hand-in-hand. Understanding statistics, geometry and physics are all intimately involved in creating a balanced – and ultimately entertaining – game experience. Alexey Pajintov knows his way around advanced mathematics, and came up with the OCD classic, Tetris. Erno Rubik…
Read MoreReiner Knizia’s games work well on the iPad, as we’ve already seen with Through the Desert and Samurai. So ClusterMaster should turn out just as well. This is a game that challenges you to fit coloured shapes onto a grid – you’ll need to place the shapes efficiently while also…
Read MoreReiner Knizia’s games work well on the iPad, as we’ve already seen with Through the Desert and Samurai. So ClusterMaster should turn out just as well. This is a game that challenges you to fit coloured shapes onto a grid – you’ll need to place the shapes efficiently while also…
Read MoreThe iPad has already proven that it isn’t just good at videogame adaptations of board games, it is the new format of choice for board games. From the classics, such as Monopoly, Risk and Scrabble, through to the new wave of Eurogames, such as Carcassonne, A Small World and Catan,…
Read MoreThe iPad has already proven that it isn’t just good at videogame adaptations of board games, it is the new format of choice for board games. From the classics, such as Monopoly, Risk and Scrabble, through to the new wave of Eurogames, such as Carcassonne, A Small World and Catan,…
Read MoreWith a large, high definition screen (by portable standards), and an easy-to-use touch screen, the iPad is a natural fit for some genre. One pleasant surprise is that it is leading a renaissance of board games in videogame form. By nature these are games that are best played locally, and…
Read MoreWith a large, high definition screen (by portable standards), and an easy-to-use touch screen, the iPad is a natural fit for some genre. One pleasant surprise is that it is leading a renaissance of board games in videogame form. By nature these are games that are best played locally, and…
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