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Best iPhone Review Ever
Mar. 5th, 2010 07:25 pmI've found it very curious in the last month and a half, since the release of Reiner Knizia's Money for the iPhone, that I've found myself in the sudden position of being the reviewed instead of the reviewer. I'd never realized quite how uncomfortable it is.
Fortunately the only notably bad review of Money came in while I was in Hawaii, and so I just shook it off the next day and went swimming in the ocean. (Hey! It was only an Apple iPhone Store mini-review! What can you do when they encourage people to review games only when they delete them? That's the heart of a future article on ratings.) Even more fortunately the vast majority of reviews have been quite good. But we just got the kindest one of all today, on TUAW, The Unofficial Apple (we)Blog.
It's here:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/05/reiner-knizias-money-app-worth-spending-time-with/
Now, the reviewer generally seems to be reviewing things well, but his description of Money was sufficiently superlative to really take my breath away:
It makes me nervous that we published what I think is the strongest of our first three licenses first. But It makes me feel really good that Money was made with a very abstracted display structure that should largely carry over to the next game. And, it also makes me feel good to realize that, yeah, this new work we're doing on the iPhone is being well received.
Fortunately the only notably bad review of Money came in while I was in Hawaii, and so I just shook it off the next day and went swimming in the ocean. (Hey! It was only an Apple iPhone Store mini-review! What can you do when they encourage people to review games only when they delete them? That's the heart of a future article on ratings.) Even more fortunately the vast majority of reviews have been quite good. But we just got the kindest one of all today, on TUAW, The Unofficial Apple (we)Blog.
It's here:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/05/reiner-knizias-money-app-worth-spending-time-with/
Now, the reviewer generally seems to be reviewing things well, but his description of Money was sufficiently superlative to really take my breath away:
"Today, we turn our focus to the card game Money [$1.99, iTunes link], which might be the best card game app out there. In the near future, we'll be reviewing Mü and some other card games, so the position is not secured forever. Still, of the iPhone card game apps we've played so far, Money is our hands down favorite."
It makes me nervous that we published what I think is the strongest of our first three licenses first. But It makes me feel really good that Money was made with a very abstracted display structure that should largely carry over to the next game. And, it also makes me feel good to realize that, yeah, this new work we're doing on the iPhone is being well received.