While many people struggle to understand why they would ever buy an iPad, we think we’ve come up with a pretty exciting reason – digital board games. If you’ve ever tried to play a board game on a games console, computer or mobile phone you’ll know that it’s just not the same as sitting around a table with your friends and family. Enter the iPad, the perfect device to play board games on.
The multi-touch display is perfect for moving pieces around a board and because the iPad is a computer it can store thousands of games and add a variety of interactive features. In addition to animated Monopoly playing pieces, for example, you could also use the iPad’s Wi-Fi or 3G to play games with friends and family across the world. There’s even scope to create an iPad board game that works with iPhones.
Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone. What we’re trying to say is that Apple has opened the door for people to create Jumanji-style games – music-filled, fun-packed experiences that can be shared in a novel way. The iPad is an interactive board game platform that could easily revive board game culture and introduce new generations to classic family games. It’s up to developers though to take advantage of this opportunity and show us the future of family-based digital games.
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