[moblivu]

A true tablet game! Not another try at porting a console or PC gameplay like a First or Third person shooter on this form-factor. This is something that you need a touchscreen device to experience at best. Simply amazing as is the execution!

[cageface]

It's surprising to me how few apps really seem to get the touchscreen. So much of what's on the store would work well enough with a mouse. I guess the upside is that there's still a lot of room for new ideas.

[aristus]

I collected a few thoughts about that from friends who do touch apps for a living:

http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/05/wysiwyt.html

[cageface]

Insightful piece. Thanks for the link.

[TillE]

It's novel, but it's still fundamentally a toy. How long are you going to play with it in total, an hour?

I'm all for innovation, but stuff like this is no substitute for real games.

[ugh]

What's a real game? What do you mean by that?

This is a video game like any other video game, saying that it's no "real" game is nothing more than a veiled insult. You should explain the difference, then you can start insulting.

[amalcon]

There's no denying that there's a difference between this and (something like) Civilization. It won't hurt anyone to recognize that this is a completely different sort of game, so long as we don't jump to the conclusion that that's a bad thing.

There's certainly room for this sort of thing, just as there's room for horror flicks in a world with Citizen Kane. There absolutely is: they are entirely different products. I'm not going to play this when I want a thinking sort of game, and I'm not going to play Civilization when I only have fifteen minutes.

[moblivu]

Compare with numbers:

A "real" game like you say costs around 40$. It is a very well known gameplay (RTS,FPS,RPG,MMORPG,etc.) but in different clothing. You might play with it for 2-3 months.

Slice HD is a unique gameply, a new experience. You will have a heck lot of fun playing it because it is something fresh that you interact with. I may not be an iPad fan, but the thing is that your 1 month with this whole new game and experience only costs 3$.

For 40$ you can buy multiple amazing games with new dynamics while supporting some indie developpers. It sure wont replace those "big game" but for the price and the fun, it can't be matched!

[officemonkey]

Also, I can totally see you taking this out when you have friends over and passing it around, making this more of a true "game" (where there is social interaction) than something like "Civilization".

[amalcon]

I do not disagree with any of this. Upvoted.

[ugh]

I did not deny that there is a difference. All I was saying is that this is also a real game. (I also think that more complex games are possible on tablets. Carcasonne is more fun on a tablet than on a computer, for example.)

[amalcon]

I picked Civ because it's an excellent example of a game that would probably be better on a tablet :)

I don't disagree that this is a game, I was just going after my parent's sentiment.

[extension]

How long does a great movie last? A filet mignon? A roller coaster?

[artmageddon]

I don't think they wrote the game to compete with the latest iteration of Call of Duty or Halo or anything of that sort.

Tic-tac-toe fits every definition of a "game" and the matches are real short.

[forensic]

All games are toys.