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Ryan Dusek
United States
Cypress
Texas
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Here is an interesting article on using the iPad for boardgaming.
I especially like the comment
"...an interactive board game platform that could easily revive board game culture...." Uh - who are we then?
http://recombu.com/news/ipad-board-games-apple-has-created-a...
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Alex Rockwell
United States
Bothell
Washington
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Yes, something like this will occur at some point in the future (using something like Surface). I doubt that the IPad is large enough however.
Eventually we will have board games that are played on electronic surface, which interacts with the pieces that are placed by the players, and enforces game rules (so you dont have to learn them!)
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Jason Fordham
United States
Rome
Georgia
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The rules are at least half (if not more) of the fun, for some of us.
Read: I'm a geek, and I love rules.
Caleb Skye
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Andrés Santiago Pérez-Bergquist
United States
Mountain View
California
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My first reaction on seeing the iPad was to think "Wow, it would be totally sweet to play Magic Online on this."
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I heard about this thing called an internal combustion engine that's supposed to revolutionize bicycling.
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Dan
United States
Bountiful
Utah
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rayito2702 wrote: I heard about this thing called an internal combustion engine that's supposed to revolutionize bicycling.
Excellent comparison!
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Seth Owen
United States
Norwich
Connecticut
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ytter wrote: rayito2702 wrote: I heard about this thing called an internal combustion engine that's supposed to revolutionize bicycling. Excellent comparison!
I'm not sure it's an apt comparison at all. Bicycles and internal combustion-engine propelled vehicles were contempoary technologies, both taking a recognizably modern form in the 1880s and 1890s.
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Dan
United States
Bountiful
Utah
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What I like about the comparison is that someone may have originally thought that the internal combustion engine would have made bicycles obsolete. But the end result isn't that people don't use bicycles anymore, they now use both combustion engines and bicycles for different reasons.
The same way, one might have thought in the 70's that the video games would make board games obsolete, but that is simply not the case. Board games and video games are two different animals, both enjoyable for their own reasons.
No matter that someone invented a mo-ped, the bicycle rides on. Just as with these new "electronic board" games, cardboard won't go out of style anytime soon.
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wargamer55 wrote: I'm not sure it's an apt comparison at all. Bicycles and internal combustion-engine propelled vehicles were contempoary technologies, both taking a recognizably modern form in the 1880s and 1890s.
A motor completely changes the experience of cycling; so much so that it can't really be called cycling anymore. That doesn't mean tooling around on a motorcycle is a lesser experience but it is a different one.
It has nothing to do with technology, per se. Playing a game on an iPad is different from playing a game on a board just as it is different from playing a game on a basketball court.
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Nick A
United States
Exton
Pennsylvania
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Alexfrog wrote: Eventually we will have board games that are played on electronic surface, which interacts with the pieces that are placed by the players, and enforces game rules (so you dont have to learn them!)
I already saw Jumanji...
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Michael Dean
United States
Norman
Oklahoma
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[quote]Eventually we will have board games that are played on electronic surface, which interacts with the pieces that are placed by the players, and enforces game rules (so you dont have to learn them!)[/quote]Also so you aren't able to houserule or variant or use the minis in other games or any of that.
A great idea, if you ask me. 
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Anthony Goodwin
United States
Maryland Heights
Missouri
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I have found all of your comments very interesting. When I first saw the keynote on the IPad the first thing that popped into my head was board gaming (Shocking!!!
 ). While it is small I see possible merits that interest me. Will it ever take the place of sitting at my dining room table over a board, cards, and pieces? Probably not. I think it would be interesting to use it for "mixed location multiplayer games". Say a game required a minimum of 3 players (Puerto Rico/ aside from the alternate rules) and all I have is my wife and I. We could hook it up through the wi-fi and add a few other players who could in turn be playing on the same or different boards. I think the worst thing that could happen is this new "Genre" turning out like it did with the IPhone... a single player version of settlers... If the Apps encouraged social play via person to person and had the internet connectivity as a secondary option I think I would very much like where it could go.
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A. B. West
United States
Beech Grove
Indiana
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Folks seem to forget we already *have* board games on computers and consoles. And we already have them on the iPad too - Zooloretto will play on it already.
I hope it does bring us even more interesting games!
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It's always freaking monopoly!!!
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Stew Woods
Australia
Wellard
Western Australia
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Quote: so you aren't able to houserule or variant
Well count me out - that's how I win 
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Like i said in the main iPad thread:
Finally we can player 4player games like Scrabble with 3300€ worth of Apple hardware. The only thing that this will revive is the bank account of Jobs.
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Nello Cozzolino
United Kingdom
London
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http://www.rubikstouchcube.com/
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Alexfrog wrote: Yes, something like this will occur at some point in the future (using something like Surface). I doubt that the IPad is large enough however.
Eventually we will have board games that are played on electronic surface, which interacts with the pieces that are placed by the players, and enforces game rules (so you dont have to learn them!)
Well, actually there already is a project that fulfills all these criteria - Eye of Judgment ( http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-eye-of/27172). Notably, it was a commercial failure.
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Derek Andelloux
United States
Pawtucket
Rhode Island
Hipster Eye of Providence says: I was an all seeing disembodied eye before Peter Jackson made it cool.
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Topper Harley wrote: Like i said in the main iPad thread:
Finally we can player 4player games like Scrabble with 3300€ worth of Apple hardware. The only thing that this will revive is the bank account of Jobs. yeah, except as was previously mentioned we can play 4 player games like scrabble with each of the players in different cities! For those of us who have trouble finding enough players for more than a night of lost cities, this could be worthwhile.
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Jay Sheely
United States
Pleasanton
California
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Hmmm, I'll just use the board that comes with the game.
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mythirdi09 wrote: yeah, except as was previously mentioned we can play 4 player games like scrabble with each of the players in different cities! For those of us who have trouble finding enough players for more than a night of lost cities, this could be worthwhile.
This can be done for ages with any computer.
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Gabe Alvaro
United States
Berkeley
California
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Topper Harley wrote: Like i said in the main iPad thread:
Finally we can player 4player games like Scrabble with 3300€ worth of Apple hardware. The only thing that this will revive is the bank account of Jobs.
That's specious. People aren't buying that hardware just to play Scrabble.
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blindspot wrote:
That's specious. People aren't buying that hardware just to play Scrabble.
Sure. Someone mentioned iScrabble with 4 phones and one pad. I've yet to see 4 iPhones in one place. I rarely see one.
If I would want to play Scrabble with an iPad as a board, i'd have to go to an Apple store
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Don Brandt
United States
Manchester
Tennessee
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I can picture 4 people around a table, each with a laptop in front of them (Microsoft), playing online hearts or spades with each other. Sometimes its easier and more fun playing with an actual deck of cards. Some people enjoy a box of bits and a set of rules to spin them into motion.
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Chris Cieslik
United States
Boston
Massachusetts
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Personally, I plan to implement (or have someone implement) Sixis on the iPad. Its the perfect size for it.
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