I understand that Dominion has been playable online for a while, but I gave it a pass because it was ugly. I tried the fan-made iPad version, which was decent - good set of cards, well-implemented rules - but not the UX I was looking for.
Yesterday, I found the (apparently fully licensed) version I’ve been looking for. Goko.com has Dominion, with single-player, multi-player and an “adventure” mode that reminds me of Spectromancer for some reason. It’s in open beta right now.
Looks like the business model is freemium, with a decent amount of content for free, and additional content available to purchase with coins you earn in-game (Act 2 of the adventure mode is 200 coins, and I have 32 after playing 4 games, so I may be able to afford it just by playing through Act 1…).
I’m “kevinmatheny” there, matching my Twitter handle. Any Dopers interested in playing? You’ll probably kick my ass.
Forgot to mention - it’s also coming to iPad, from the same company. It was announced as being imminent release in August, but is not out yet. The Web version is HTML5 - not sure why the iPad version is so behind.
I think iOS in general. I tend to ignore iPhone versions of games that are available for the iPad, since I have both of them and prefer the bigger screen for visually rich games.
Aaaaaand it’s not working for me in Chrome on OS X. Chrome in Win7 works fine, but for whatever reason, trying to start an Adventure game just gives me a black screen.
The plan is for it to be available in all mediums that they can manage. (facebook, google, all smart devices…) Thus far Goko has done little to endear confidence that their approach will work. They launched once and it was a disaster filled with blatant security issues, bugs, and miserable communication. The open beta is there 2nd launch (which wasn’t called a beta until things didn’t work right again). By all accounts the Ipad isn’t out yet, because they haven’t gotten it work well enough. There is also an open question if apple will allow the app, since it does skate around some of Apple’s requirements.
Personally I’m going to use isotropic, which I find to be spectacularly run, until it is taken down.
I like isotropic a lot. The site that this thread is based on looks nice, and plays okay, but it’s a little slow. It’s good for folks that are just getting into the game, for sure.
