Dized 4+

I enjoy board gaming. My wife does not. It doesn’t help that I’m not very good at explaining rules. However, last night we played KINGDOMino for the first time, and instead of me bumbling through the directions, we pulled up Dized and just ran through the tutorial. It was animated, narrated, and even helped us calculate the score at the end of the game. Of course she beat me 45 to 25. I enjoy playing, and she wins. It’s just how it goes. Regardless, Dized will only continue to get better as they add more games and tutorials. Really looking forward to the future with this app.

I’ve looked at a few game rules (including the new and hyped Pathfinder), and the presentation is awful on my iPad Pro. Plenty of layout problems like text that’s clipped or overlapping icons. All the pictures are super lo-res and overcompressed. And worst, going through the rules requires arduous navigation between each nugget of text. Exactly how is this better than reading a nicely printed physical rule book that’s conveniently already inside the game box?
The only use I can see for this is as a way to read rules for games I’m curious about, but even then, the publishers usually make the actual rule book available for download as a high-res PDF.

Just used this to GM a game of ICECOOL and the walkthrough / game running was excellent. We could start playing without needing to read the rules, excellent for non-readers. The turn by turn instructions that took us all the way through the game were well thought out with actual voice acting to keep the kids engaged.

Might not be so great for more complex games but for younger kid games this seems just about perfect.