Tikal
By Codito Development Inc.
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Description
Tikal is an award-winning board game ("Euro game") from designers Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling.
★★★★★★★★★★
Reviews:
"Tikal offers jungle brilliance for 10 action points a turn" - TUAW
"Deep strategic gameplay... provides a 4-Dimple [out of 5] cerebral experience." - AppSmile.com
"Tikal [is] a game I enjoyed my time with and is easily worth the money." - Gamezebo
★★★★★★★★★★
Explore the untamed jungles of Guatemala at Tikal: the most important and largest of all Mayan sites. Send your expedition members out from base camp to discover buried treasure and uncover over-grown temples. But stay alert, as both treasures and temples can change hands as you compete with other expeditions! Each turn, you place a new tile representing an area of the jungle you have just mapped, then spend action points to explore. When a volcano tile is revealed, each player has one extra chance to improve their position, then points are awarded. Plan your moves and stake your claims wisely, and your expedition will take it's place in the history books!
With stunning HD graphics and trademark attention to detail and theme, this latest offering from developer and publisher Sage Board Games makes it simple and entertaining to play a quick game of Tikal with your friends or by yourself -- no matter where you are!
Combining deep strategy with an intuitive and beautiful visual presentation, Tikal draws you into the unknown secrets of the jungle and will bring you back for more, time and time again. Choose your favourite of 6 Mayan totems as your avatar, and then discover the true power of this ancient civilization as you compete against them in solo play. Once you've mastered the game, with the help of optional hints and the comprehensive rules and game guide, connect with other players online for turn-based multiplayer fun!
With no setup time required, no pieces to lose, and no arguments about the rules, the future of board games is here and Tikal gives you exactly what you want -- to play!
Features
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Fast, easy, and fun game play for 1 to 4 players
Stunning HD graphics with plenty of eye candy
Immersive Mayan theme and music, or play your own iPod music
Support for 3 modes of play: solo, "pass and play", and online multiplayer
6 different Mayan totem avatars to choose from
6 different AI opponents to compete against
In-game hints make it easy to learn the game
Complete rules and game guide
Player rankings and stats
Achievements and leaderboards
Online multiplayer play
About
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Wolfgang Kramer is one of the world's most decorated and successful board game designers, and this is the official iOS version of his 1999 German Game of the Year.
Sage Board Games is an independent software developer, focusing on bringing award-winning and classic board games to mobile devices. With a veritable "who's who" of Euro games already licensed, Sage Board Games is poised to become the premiere source of board games for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
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What's New in Version 1.2
Online
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Replaced OpenFeint with GameCenter for turn-based online multiplayer.
Up to 4 players may play online, or 2 or 3 players may play with possible AI opponents. "Undo" is also now supported in online games.
NOTE: online games now require iOS 5.0 or later.
Improvements
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Replaced OpenFeint with GameCenter for achievements and leaderboards.
Significant improvements to the AI.
Restored option to turn off confirmation messages.
Added "Last Moves" log.
Fixes
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Fixed bugs with worker/leader selection.
Fixed bug with stats that could cause loading and undo to take a long time.
Fixed bug that allowed invalid last tile placement.
Customer Reviews
Getting better!
Game Center multiplayer is a vast improvement!, but there is still some work to be done for a great app.
- The avatar system is still confusing, but the directions need some help. (Please only require stone avatars for AI.)
- For multiplayer, it doesn't make a lot of sense for the stone avatars for multiplayer. Game Center avatars make more sense.
- It is difficult to see what tile the other players last played. Unfortunately the log does help much here because: tile placement doesn't stand out, and it seems to start at the beginning instead of the last move. (This last part could be wrong as there is a definite lack of clarity here.)
Optional:
- I tried to choose colors for me and my opponents in multiplayer game. Didn't work. It would nice if it did, but not necessary.
Very good board game, family game.
It's a great board game and now it's a great app board game...
Good game but annoying interface
This a good game especially now with asynchronous multiplayer mode. However, going through multiple screens every time I open it before I get to my ongoing game is poor programming. Also better implementation of game center milt would be appreciated.
- $3.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: Feb 01, 2012
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 25.8 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Codito Development Inc.
- © 2011 Codito Development
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
