Tikal app for iPhone and iPad
Explore the untamed jungles of Guatemala at Tikal, the infamous Mayan city.
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
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 its place in the history books!
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!
How to play:
Choose your favorite 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.
On a players turn they perform the following actions:
1.Place the next terrain tile on the board; and,
2.Use 10 action points to explore Tikal
Play continues in order with each player placing a new tile and exploring until the volcano tile is drawn. When a volcano tile is drawn players are scored and given 10 more APs to set themselves up for the best possible score.
After the last tile is played a final scoring round occurs and the winner is determined.
Features
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No set up required
Fast, easy, and fun game play for 1 to 4 players
Stunning HD graphics with plenty of eye candy
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
Play your own iPod music
About
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Wolfgang Kramer is one of the worlds 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 "whos 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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Pros and cons of Tikal app for iPhone and iPad
Tikal app good for
Well, this game won quite a few prizes as a board game and the iPad version is a perfect adaptation of a really good game! :)
It is a pleasure to play this game on the ipad. very good design, high replayability. The AI can be a bit weak but I played just twice up to now when the automatic message to rank the game appears.
Why the game screen cannot be upside down? Playing it while having ipad keyboard is quite annoying.... Otherwise, good implementation tho... plz update it :(
Cant get past the game setup screen. Cant download the app again. Doesnt appear to be any online support on the company website. Too bad, since I love this game and was lookin forward to Puerto Rico later this year. Should have spent my 5 bucks on a Carmel Macchiato...
O.k. Thanks to the forums on board game geek! You must apply Ann A.I. Persona to human players in the setup screen to get this to work.
Like Ra a Euro board game I didnt own a hard copy of but wanted to try and its great. I was able to learn the game quickly and it would seem to be another excellent IPad version of a Spiel des Jahr. The only issue is that in 4 games I havent lost - from game one against the lowest AI to my 4th game against the highest AI playing a variety of 2 - 4 player games. For now Ill have to depend on the available online multiplayer or local hotseat for challenge. But thanks to Codito for bringing these great Euro boardgames to this media. So far so good :-)
The Gameplay is perfect, but sometime when you do undo, it freeze and quit the app for no reason.
Fix this and its 5/5. ;)
Some bad moments
Dont buy this for your ipad pro, it was not optimized for it. Texts are often out of bounds etc. also the tutorial is bad for people who dont know the actual boardgame
Why all of their games got horrible non-polished ui? Even the button, checkbox icons look cheap. The developer of this company should see games like samurai, carcassone, bang, they are defining how boardgame on iPhone should like, on the other hand this publisher is grabbing all the good title but creating bad implementation of them.
First let me say that this is a fantastic rendering of Tikal in iPad form. However the game clearly was released without sufficient testing. As other reviews have mentioned, the Undo function causes the game to crash most of the time its used. After crashing, the game takes several minutes to start again (so long that the first time it happened I wasnt sure if it would ever start again). This wouldnt be a showstopper issue if the Undo function was rarely used. However because the interface is so finicky, its very easy to accidentally take unintended actions, especially while trying to zoom and pan the board. Thus the need to frequently use Undo. I think the designers were aware of how finicky the interface is because by default all actions are confirmed (I.e. Do you really want to take this action?) Such confirmation would not be necessary if the interface was well implemented (see Carcassonne for comparison). If the devs fix these two issues it would be a 5-star app.
Played our first game this evening. Workers randomly disappeared/appeared. Twice could not see the worker that was to be moved, and therefore could not unselect him to do something else. Game ultimately crashed.
Version 1.1 installed.
Bugs made game not worth the time or money.
Simple game and the touch screen is annoying: small icons to touch. Regret of buying this one.
I wish the graphics were a little better, and the selection of pieces/moves was easier. Great game though!