Texas Tea
By SnakeHead Software, LLC
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Description
• #1 Casino Game
• #7 Puzzle Game
• #53 in Apple's Top 100 Games!
Texas Teas has been Featured in the "WHAT WE'RE PLAYING" section of the iTunes App Store games page.
Texas Tea, as Featured in the "HOT NEW GAMES" section of the iTunes App Store.
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A Must Have App!
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"...a combination of gameplay elements distilled in to the matching format we're all familiar with that actually works quite well."
- Eli Hodapp, TouchArcade
"This is a great matching game, providing more features than an average match 3. Texas Tea provides all kinds of gamers with fun playing."
- iTunes Games
If you like games such as Bejeweled, Jewel Quest II, Trism, Yahtzee and Poker, you'll love Texas Tea™. Texas Tea™ is a unique new game that mixes features of all those games. Match dice using typical poker hands to clear the game board and make your way across Texas from El Paso to Austin for the big finale!
Texas Tea™ is OpenFeint Enabled.
Bejeweled is a registered trademark of PopCap Games, Inc.
Jewel Quest II is a registered trademark of iWin, Inc.
Trism is a registered trademark of Demiforce, LLC
Yahtzee is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc.
What's New In Version 1.5
* Integrated new OpenFeint features
* Small interface changes
* Various bug fixes
Customer Reviews
Nice concept, poor execution
I like block puzzle games and I like Yahtzee, poker, and dice, so this sounded like a promising idea for a game. And the basic idea is pretty clever (it reminded me a little bit of the old arcade game "Gun Dealer") -- you have to form poker hands from the grid of dice (pairs, straights, full houses, etc.) to change the background color of all of the tiles on the board.
Unfortunately, in practice, the game lacks a lot of polish, and has enough rough edges that it's pretty disappointing. Some of my specific complaints are as follows:
- The whole presentation is somewhat amateurish. The menus, the screen layouts, the lack of graphical details, it doesn't look TERRIBLE but it's like the bare minimum of effort went into the visual design of the program. And when the first paragraph of the in-game help screen starts with "If you liked Bejeweled and Yahtzee, you'll love Texas Tea", that just looks cheap and tacky.
- The controls, again, aren't TERRIBLE, but they are a little frustrating and confusing. When you swap dice around on the board, there's no animation, the dice just instantly switch places -- this really doesn't offer very good feedback and makes the dice-swapping sort of a chore half the time. The swipe-to-select controls for picking poker hands works pretty well (though as an aside, I'm a little puzzled that you can't make a five of a kind hand, since that's a valid hand in poker dice and Yahtzee).
- The game save is buggy and unreliable. I've played through several levels, left the game, and then when I re-launched it forced me to start over from the beginning. Other times the Continue worked just fine.
- I really don't like the whole heavy-handed "Texas" theme, the way everything is covered in pictures of Texas and Texas flags -- it would have looked a lot better if they had just gone with a more neutral casino-type visual theme.
Overall, hey, for a buck I guess I got a few minutes diversion out of Texas Tea, but it's definitely one of the weaker puzzle games on the iPhone.
If you like a twist...
That is the game that you should take. Whenever we think that some genre was done, some good idea shines and brings us more! The game has an excelent flow, graphs, and the commands are perfect for the platform.
If you like poker (who does not?) you should buy this one.
Texas Tea
Incredible! I love Texas Hold 'Em Poker and Bejeweled. What a way to mix the two together! Love the game...Hard to stop once you start!
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$1.99
- Category: Games
- Updated:Feb 05, 2010
- Current Version:1.5
- 1.5
- 7.0 MB
- Languages:English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Seller:Snakehead Software, LLC
- © 2009 SnakeHead Software, LLC
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
