True Backgammon HD
By CompuLab, Markus Gömmel
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Description
True Backgammon for iPad ... now also for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
*** Thank you so much for making True Backgammon the best selling Backgammon especially created for the iPad. Dice Games #1 in more than 20 countries. (as of August 2010) ***
We proudly present version 3 of True Backgammon which is now brought to you as a universal app that can be run on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. New features include a new expert level, a manual dice roll option, and six new beautiful board designs (optional in-app purchase).
True Backgammon is a fully featured backgammon game. On the iPad's large screen you can play the game in the same way you would play on a real backgammon board. Drag one or multiple checkers to their destination or undo moves by just dragging a checker back to its original location. If a checker has only one possible destination, you can even move it by simply double tapping it. The whole gameplay against the computer or a friend is a smooth and convincing experience.
We went to great lengths to port the look and feel to the iPhone and iPod Touch too. Feedback from all of our testers makes us believe that despite their smaller displays we also made an enjoyable gameplay for those devices.
No matter on which device you are playing True Backgammon, it will be as close as it can get to playing the real game.
Play a full match up to 15 points, against the computer or against a friend. Choose playing with or without doubling cube, select light or dark checkers, or play in clockwise or counter clockwise direction. In other words, you choose how you want to play.
This is version 3 of True Backgammon, and we included a lot of ideas and suggestions you sent us in the past few months. Again we love to hear your ideas, suggestions (and even possible bug reports) and promise to work hard to improve True Backgammon again and again.
Feel free to write a review too, but please be aware that we will not be able to answer, contact or help you based on reviews alone, so if you like to hear back from us, please send an email.
What's New in Version 3.01
New in version 3.0:
* as a universal app now also playable on iPhone and iPod Touch
* new expert play level
* improvements in doubling cube handling
* new option for manual dice roll
* new dialog for showing the dice stream and for creating new random dice
* new in-appstore initially filled with six wonderful boards
* new info text dialog about cheating
* iphone move type (tap-tap) also available on ipad as an option
* occasional crash when leaving in-appstore fixed (v3.01)
If you like this app and want to support further development, please rate it 5 star, or even better, write a nice review. I appreciate your support. Please also remember that all reviews and ratings are version dependent, so do not hasitate to resubmit your existing rating or review. Thank you!
Customer Reviews
The rolls are stacked in the computer's favor
I like the look and play of this app, but finally had to delete it from my iPad after it became clear the dice rolls favor the computer. I played more than a hundred games, taking notes as I went.
Not only does the computer win the opening roll 95% of the time, it also is more likely to get rolls it needs to escape when it has a piece on the bar, is more likely to get the rolls it needs when you have a piece exposed, get the rolls it needs to protect a piece, and to get doubles.
There must be a good backgammon AI out there, but this one isn't it.
Rigged game
The coding for this program is super predictable. Whenever your piece is open the computer magically rolls exactly what is needed to eat your piece. The same goes for doubles. He tried to prove it wasn't rigged by allowing you to roll your own dice but you can easily do what his bad programing does and beat the computer at it's own game. Beware!!!! To easy of a program on dice.
I think it's cool. What's with the dice fixing complaint?
I, too, hate when the game gets me and gets me again, but I don't blame the dice or the author. I was thrown back over and over, and I still beat the game. Sometimes it's lucky, sometimes you are. By the way, to what end would an author rig the system in its favor? It just ticks people off. One would expect the game to favor players to make them happy.
Also, the author was very helpful in resolving my board layout (skins) issue, porting my iPhone skin purchase to my iPad. Very responsive.
- $3.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: May 25, 2011
- Version: 3.01
- Size: 11.8 MB
- Languages: English, German
- Seller: CompuLab
- © 2010-2011, CompuLab
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
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