I came across another note taking app the other day. The developer behind Quicklyst left a comment, and as you should know I love trying out new apps. This is web based, and it’s compatible with Kindle, Android, and iOS. I’ve tried it on my Kindle, and it works rather well.
Flip It! is a simple game that just became available in the Kindle Store today. It’s a close relative of Othello, and the goal of the game is to flip all the tiles from black to white. There’s a total of 40 levels and you can play both timed and untimed. You can also go back and repeat a level to get a better score. It costs a buck. [Read more →]
A couple days ago EA released a Kindle app version of Monopoly
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A friend just tweeted that the classic game MONOPOLY
You can play against your Kindle or with a combination of up to 3 friends with Pass ‘N Play multiplayer. Choose between 3 different difficulty levels for your opponents – Easy, Medium, and Hard. You can even customize your house rules to change how Free Parking, Taxes, Get Out of Jail and other rules work within your game.
Featuring all the classic properties like Park Place and Boardwalk, you can buy, sell, and build houses and hotels all around the MONOPOLY board.
I just got my copy, and please excuse me while I go play with myself.
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Do you recall when I told you about KindleQuest, a website that runs adventure games like Zork for your Kindle
It’s called Dusk World
Here’s what Amazon had to say: [Read more →]
The week got away from me, and I’m just now getting a chance to share a couple new apps for the Kindle
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Amazon have just uploaded a new app to the Kindle Store. It’s Blackjack.
The Kindle version features all of the most common aspects of the game including splits, double down, surrender and insurance, as well as multiple options for customization that allow you to play the style of Blackjack that you want to play. For example, you can configure the game to match specific structures like ‘Dealer must hit soft 17′ – a common rule variation in many Las Vegas casinos. [Read more →]
It’s that time again, folks.
Amazon just announced a new app for the Kindle: EA Sudoku. This would be great (if not for the fact that you already could play Sudoku on your Kindle
EA Sudoku contains thousands of built-in puzzles, as well as the ability to enter and play a puzzle from your favorite newspaper or magazine in “Newspaper” mode.With five difficulty levels from “Easy” to “Insane,” Sudoku offers plenty of fun for Sudoku players of all skill levels. Built-in game features let you make “Notes,” “Undo” moves, and apply “Error Checking.” If you get stuck, you can use the “Hints” feature for help or use “AutoFill” to display all notes on the game board. You can even track your game stats to see how you progress over time.
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A friend at MobileRead pointed me at another site that hosts text based games (thanks, Kristian).
Parchment is a privately hosted web-based Z-machine interpreter by Atul Varma. It supports what looks like a couple hundred z-code based interactive fiction titles made available by The Interactive Fiction Archive.
It doesn’t quite work on the Kindle, unfortunately. The last couple characters on each line are off the edge of the screen. And switching to article mode doesn’t seem to help any.
I bet that doesn’t actually happen in Zork, but wouldn’t it be cool if it did?
I came across a second site that’s hosting the Infocom games: PortableQuest.com. They only have the 4 Zork games (Kindle Quest had 12 games), and it appears to have the same basic set of commands as KQ.
Many people cut their teeth on the imagination fueled text adventures games released by Infocom back in the eighties. Whispernet combined with the handy keyboard and the limiting browser made the Kindle perfect for a text-based adventures. We programmed an interface specifically for the Kindle that lets you play a handful of the Zork-like adventures that we spent many of hours of our youth. Save game is supported so you can come back at a later time without restarting. Let us know what you think and how we can improve it!
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