Ambrosia working on Mr. Sukdoku and Aki Mahjong Mobile for the App Store
touchArcade has a quick look up at Ambrosia's new version of the old Sudoku game for the iPhone, coming soo to an App Store near you. It looks like Sudoku to us -- there's numbers, squares, and entering one in the other with the touchscreen to fill out the puzzle. Yup, seems like if you want to play Sudoku, you'll be able to do it. Not a lot of extra flair, especially for $10 (there is a free version already on the web), but we'd guess it's not really needed in this case.And Ambrosia is also working on a version of Mahjong, called Aki Mahjong Mobile for the iPhone. They don't have video of that that we've seen, but work, they say, is progressing steadily towards an App Store launch.
In terms of innovation, there's not a lot to find in these two games but every new game platform needs a few standbys to fill out the library (we'll almost certainly see Pac Man and Frogger clones in the App Store at launch, not to mention that we'll have to see a good poker game as well), and it looks like Ambrosia's ready to fill the quota for these two traditional games.
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touchArcade has a quick look up at Ambrosia's new version of the old Sudoku game for the iPhone, coming soo to an App Store near you. It...
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I tried rubbing numbers on the screen of my iPhone to see if I liked the idea. I have one comment: ouch! I love sudoku but not going to suffer myself with this one. Is anybody else making a sudoku game for the iPhone?
July 08 2008 at 10:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIs it weird for me to think this should be even more aesthetically pleasing than the iPod version? This looks uninspiring.
http://www.apple.com/games/ipod/sudoku/
Draw your number? Seriously? That works fine for a pen, not so much your finger. A better way would've been to bring up a radial after touching the square with 1-9 and an eraser... or even a number pad... anything but drawing the number!
July 08 2008 at 9:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyplease fix the spelling of "Sudoku" - its in the picture for goodness sake :P
July 08 2008 at 9:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI hope you're not surprised Ambrosia is charging for this.
Ambrosia will probably never release something for free.
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