Mad King's Steward

Name: Mad King's Steward
Price: 4.99 USD
Rating: 4.8 (35 reviews)
Author: Chimera Software, LLC

Smart Scoring of BTCoMKL!

$4.99 · Designed for iPad

35 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Utilities
Developer

Chimera Software, LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

66.2
MB

"I used it for the first time yesterday, and it was magical." - Jamey Stegmaier "It’s genius! Basically magic." - qeek "That’s what it truly is, magical. So cool" - Steve Fully supports the latest expansion Secrets & Soirees! Imagine that you have just finished a rousing game of "Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig" with six of your good friends. There are six massive castles arranged neatly on the table and the tile tray is nearly empty. Everyone is happy, cheerful, and perhaps slightly inebriated. You look around the table and rejoice in the good time you just had, but the night is not over! The most daunting task of tallying those castles lies ahead. Your shoulders start to slump a little... But fear not! The Mad King's Steward is here to preserve the good mood and do the nasty accounting work for you. Just tap the camera button and point your device at one of the castles. In mere seconds you will have an accurate score tabulated for your INSANELY MASSIVE castle. Huzzah! The good mood is preserved and your game night can continue unimpeded! From the creator of the Pointsman comes another ARKit/CoreML enabled smart scoring app; here to save the fun by making the scoring of your favorite games a little less tedious. Want to try it out but don't have a finished game handy? Just go to http://chimerasw.com/madkingsteward/ and use the Mad King's Steward on the image there! Not an Official Stonemaier Games product.

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

35 Ratings

Makes scoring much easier
07/21/2019

hoitoru
First time I played BTCOMKL when it came time to scoring it took a couple minutes per castle so scoring took as long as multiple turns in the game. Saw this app and gave it a try and it reduced the time to a few seconds per castle. Works amazingly
Makes scoring much easier
07/21/2019

hoitoru

First time I played BTCOMKL when it came time to scoring it took a couple minutes per castle so scoring took as long as multiple turns in the game. Saw this app and gave it a try and it reduced the time to a few seconds per castle. Works amazingly
I never like to buy apps but this was worth it
12/01/2019

U of A
It counts you castle so quickly and easily. I used to enjoy doing it by hand but this is perfectly accurate and when comparing I found we sometimes miscounted. I have had a small amount of trouble getting all the rooms to be recognized but adjusting the angle of the camera usually makes it work in a few more seconds which is still faster than adding oneself. I like the display and seeing how much each room is worth and it is so easy to use. The only thing I wish it did is save the images of the castles so that I could look back at my favorite ones. Since it already gets the picture I imagine it would be able to do it. You can’t even review old castles. Once it scores then it only has the total. Being able to look back at them would be nice.

Developer Response
Hi! The feature you want already exists :)After you score the castle there are two buttons at the very bottom of the "Castle Score" screen. One is a little envelope and another is a square with an arrow. Both of the buttons will create images of your castle you can store for looking back on. I find it easiest to tap the email button and send an email to myself with the images. But you can tap the other one and use any of the sharing methods available to you (such as saving to a photo album).
I never like to buy apps but this was worth it
12/01/2019

U of A

It counts you castle so quickly and easily. I used to enjoy doing it by hand but this is perfectly accurate and when comparing I found we sometimes miscounted. I have had a small amount of trouble getting all the rooms to be recognized but adjusting the angle of the camera usually makes it work in a few more seconds which is still faster than adding oneself. I like the display and seeing how much each room is worth and it is so easy to use. The only thing I wish it did is save the images of the castles so that I could look back at my favorite ones. Since it already gets the picture I imagine it would be able to do it. You can’t even review old castles. Once it scores then it only has the total. Being able to look back at them would be nice.
Developer Response 12/02/2019
Hi! The feature you want already exists :)After you score the castle there are two buttons at the very bottom of the "Castle Score" screen. One is a little envelope and another is a square with an arrow. Both of the buttons will create images of your castle you can store for looking back on. I find it easiest to tap the email button and send an email to myself with the images. But you can tap the other one and use any of the sharing methods available to you (such as saving to a photo album).
Scoring castles backwards?
08/27/2022

xgamerms999
Really cool concept, but when we played tonight (with expansion) and we tried this out it seemed to show the scores on the screen counter-clockwise, but the app instructed me to score them clockwise. It lead to a big argument about if the app actually works and much recounting of points. Some first time players said they wouldn’t be interested in trying the game again, app or no app. Perhaps let players add names to the castles or something so that it’s easier to tell for sure who’s castle is which whether the app displays the scores in the proper order or not. Really wanted to love this app, but I’m not sure my group will let me try the app again, let alone the game :(
Scoring castles backwards?
08/27/2022

xgamerms999

Really cool concept, but when we played tonight (with expansion) and we tried this out it seemed to show the scores on the screen counter-clockwise, but the app instructed me to score them clockwise. It lead to a big argument about if the app actually works and much recounting of points. Some first time players said they wouldn’t be interested in trying the game again, app or no app. Perhaps let players add names to the castles or something so that it’s easier to tell for sure who’s castle is which whether the app displays the scores in the proper order or not. Really wanted to love this app, but I’m not sure my group will let me try the app again, let alone the game :(
Great but ran into expansion issues
09/16/2021

Heyjoeyouknow
I’ve only used the app once with the new expansion; t seems the app says you should scan castles clockwise but when scanning it seemed like it actually puts them in counterclockwise positions… I ran into issues getting the tiles to scan, and some of the new expansion tiles make scoring trickier in general (the ones related to neighboring castles, especially). Scoring using the app was a bumpier experience than it used to be, and I can’t tell if it’s user error or bugs with the app. I’ll update my review once I’ve gotten the game to the table again.
Great but ran into expansion issues
09/16/2021

Heyjoeyouknow

I’ve only used the app once with the new expansion; t seems the app says you should scan castles clockwise but when scanning it seemed like it actually puts them in counterclockwise positions… I ran into issues getting the tiles to scan, and some of the new expansion tiles make scoring trickier in general (the ones related to neighboring castles, especially). Scoring using the app was a bumpier experience than it used to be, and I can’t tell if it’s user error or bugs with the app. I’ll update my review once I’ve gotten the game to the table again.

v1.8 includes the following changes: - Fixed typo in instructions (scan castles in clockwise order) - Fixed scoring issue for activity/outdoor throne room - Trained new ML model which can now recognized the newly printed throne rooms - Trained new ML model which will (hopefully) be able to distinguish ballrooms better