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Tetra for iOS - my new Letterpress-inspired board game app

38 points| jazzychad | 12 years ago |itunes.apple.com | reply

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[+] blackdogswe|12 years ago|reply
I'd say it's more that inspired by...
[+] jazzychad|12 years ago|reply
s'ok - I showed Loren before it launched, and he was cool with it :)
[+] spne|12 years ago|reply
How is this game different from Quarto [1]?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarto_(board_game)

[+] jazzychad|12 years ago|reply
It's not :) It is an app version of the same game. You're the first person who has made that connection in months of beta testing and showing people the app. I'm sure other people will recognize it as well, but I don't think it's as recognizable as was, say, Words With Friends was an app version of Scrabble.
[+] pbiggar|12 years ago|reply
Cool game, nicely done!

It wasn't that clear to me that I could play more than one game at a time though, might want to make it clearer. It's been a while since I played letterpress, but I recall I had dozens of games going at once there.

[+] chubot|12 years ago|reply
Wish it didn't require iOS 6. I don't upgrade my iPad after previous updates made it slow.
[+] junto|12 years ago|reply
I'm in the same boat as you. I have an iPad 2 and since there is no easy downgrade I'm not prepared to move to iOS6 either.

I had a bad experience with my iPhone 3G. I had to jailbreak it just to downgrade back to a usable phone. That whole process took several hours of time, which I really don't have these days.

[+] umsm|12 years ago|reply
Usually, apple tries to improve firmware speed after they add features. I found that staying updated is the best policy.
[+] spartango|12 years ago|reply
I couldn't upgrade my iPad because it's the first generation one...Again, would love a non-iOS 6 version; what features of this app depend on iOS 6?
[+] simonista|12 years ago|reply
Does this app share any code with Letterpress or did you re-create the UI elements/interactions?
[+] jazzychad|12 years ago|reply
No code was shared. I wrote my own UIKit layer to accomplish the UI (whereas Loren used a 100% OpenGL implementation for Letterpress).
[+] joeblau|12 years ago|reply
Game looks awesome. I'm glad to see that you got everything put together and out there :).
[+] mdznr|12 years ago|reply
A little too "inspired"
[+] nonchalance|12 years ago|reply
What do you get with the $1.99 upgrade ?
[+] jazzychad|12 years ago|reply
You can play more concurrent games and change themes (color schemes) in the app. The free version lets you have 2 concurrent games and use the basic theme.