Portable is a portable table
app for playing games.
The app
when opened on an iPad displays the green felt of a card table.
Players choose their game item from an inventory, a set of either 32 or 52
cards, dominos or dice, and the selected item drops onto the card table.
The dealer can shuffle the deck or manipulate the dominos or dice any way they want.
The dealer can shuffle the deck or manipulate the dominos or dice any way they want.
The game gets really cool when
passing cards, dominos, or dice between players.
Each
player’s iPhone is connected to the iPad via Bluetooth. There is a strip of colored
light at each end of the iPad table and at the top of the table displayed on
the players’ iPhones. By dragging a card across the iPad table and through one
of the colored strips, the card suddenly appears on the iPhone display with the
corresponding color.
The system takes some getting
use to, but it allows for the closest virtual simulation to real card, domino,
and dice games on an iPad or iPhone yet.
