what a waste – Rummy + Review

This would be technically perfect if it wasn’t for a fatal flaw. The interface is so horrible as to make it unplayable. It’s like it wasn’t designed for a big ipad screen. The cards are difficult to read and the player’s hand is smaller than the huge melds. The melds from all 4 players are placed in the center together with the discard pile on the left. the sizing of the interface elements is very counterintuitive. This makes one wonder if the author ever played rummy or is just following a rulebook. it is hard to tell which of the 4 players is playing. The melds should be on the 4 sides of the screen. the discard pile in the middle. The card design more legible. Sound effects added for distributing cards. For proper interface design for rummy, i advise the author to get the [hand (rummy)] game by [BoJacob]. I should mention the same poor interface elements plague the author’s solitaire app. Now for the positive, this app nails it with the level of detail on the preferences. Everyone plays rummy with slightly different rules. No app ever made will probably give the amount of detail and flexibility allowed by this app as to which rules you prefer to play by. Even the help screens and context sensitive help are amazing and rival any desktop app.
Review by brashus conicus on Rummy +.