Board games on the iPad

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The Apple iPad is an incredible device that waves of the Board decision in gaming communities around the world, but why? What traditional board games have this with the iPad? Can physical games with many pieces of true device screen can be converted to a small touch? They are all areas where IPAD is actually better than the physical board game?

What many hardcore board game enthusiasts may want to believe, despite everything, the iPada great addition to your wardrobe full of little things, "real life" physical board games. But actually it is not a substitute for the physical - as well as for the experience to earn a substitute for a table with 4 friends.

The size of the screen, for the time being is the primary limitation of the iPad gaming experience - but the size is an advantage. For example, the combination of the iPad, iPhone and Nintendo DS all the "journey" destroyedGames industry. No longer are we forced to play monopoly with tiny pieces, which lost down the back of the seat! Long trips with children are now a number of easier. The small screen, however, means that it is not particularly suited to in the middle of a large table and sat around. An impressive attempt at small coffee table gaming was from Days of Wonder's "Small World" board game app, in which mode includes a coffee table and the standard "pass and play"Modes. Coffee table mode, iPad would recognize in it on a table placed horizontally and automatically keep the board in a fixed position, with each player screen kept the interface area to the corresponding page des However, play was these two players is limited, since the elements the user interface for more than 2 players simply could not fit on the screen. The Pass-and-Play "mode is standard on almost every board game conversion for the iPad yet, so for morePlayers by the unit around. In fact, "pass and play mode is the only possible when games cards contain an element of secrecy about players - with the iPad just playing poker with a friend sitting opposite you is not possible with only one device. Obviously, with more than one iPad, we reach a similar experience in terms of gameplay, but the social interaction would fall - every player on a computer screen to stare.

Which bring us toour next point, one that really win in the iPads on physical board games - the fact that physical player games require physical. A weekly game session to be organized at best, difficult - scheduling conflicts, betting preferences - can sometimes lead to an unsatisfactory gaming get-together. With an Internet connection and if iPad - you may have with people around the world, the same game to play how to play, at the same time, isconvenient for you. Of course, the social interactions is not the same, but the gameplay in general. Carcassonne is perhaps the best example yet of Internet gaming done right on the iPad. If you select an Internet game, the app will not ask for user names, passwords to select a game lobby or server - it simply goes out to get you out an opponent and gives you an estimated time. Most iPad board game conversions do not yet include an Internet GamingOption.

So far we have talked only about how to replace the iPad the physical versions, but I think they can co-exist and complement indeed. As I said, can at the beginning of a gaming group together can be difficult to take as the time to explain a new game and give it a run before the game "for serious" is time-consuming and inefficient. The iPad is a great way to play before the real social practice, to ensure that you understand the rules and have an idea of strategies that mightplayed against you. And even if you have some rules of real life experience, iPad is a good way, in discovering new ways to play, you've seen may never - you remember that most board games apps AI have the routines developed by the makers of board game, so that they usually know a trick or two that your friends may not.

The iPad is a supplement to the real board game during this social gaming sessions.is traditionally a rather tedious but necessary part iPad games - not so with the one score, for example. "Agricola," in which the players try to create the best farm is a good example. At the end of the game, are points to the size of your house after scored to provide the material to the number of family members, how many fields you managed to have done is ... All-In, there are about 15 different metrics, for review must be a point systemTable. The Agricola companion app makes it easy for each of the guests through step by step through each metric, and give you a "select number" simple element easily calculate all the input. The app then it is calculated according to the scoring tables are built in total, then show the results and overall winner. There are even businesses to save player data (including photos) and you can each game result and where the game was played!

But perhaps most importantly, opens the iPadBoard game in the hope of so many more people. It must be said that most designer board games are generally prohibitive in - without a personal recommendation from a friend, it is difficult to determine 70, $ - $ 100 for a board game you've heard before. Monopoly is the complete opposite of designer board games - it is known by each, and the game is not quite compelling. Designer board games but are known by so few,But their game is often more interesting than anything in your size typical High Street retailer. So personally, I love the fact that more people get to know iPad the board games I love, by the.

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