Reiner Knizia's Money Now Updated with Some Major Improvements

[Shannon Appelcline]

Folks,

Version 1.30 of Reiner Knizia's went out today. This is a *big* release because I hadn't yet been able to get a post-Kingdoms Money out. As a result, this one has all the updates to our MobileEuroCard system for the last 6-7 months.

Here are the big additions:
* New graphics for active buttons and for table backgrounds (selectable in Options).
* Full integration for iPhone retina display, which is particularly notable for making the rules pages look a lot better.
* New icon too, as I'd always found the old one somewhat troublesome due to resolution issues.
* Full integration of touch-and-hold/double-tap functionality. This means that you can double-tap a deck to select it and you can touch-and-hold any lot to see its exact value to you.
* New audio, which includes cues that I find very useful saying if you "won" a bid or not. You can turn these off in options if you prefer listening to your own music.
* Various speed-ups and adjustments to how basic card movement works.

There's also a fairly notable adjustment to AI that improves how all the players select which lot they want to take. I think it brings up Money's difficulty considerably, but as always Your Mileage May Vary.

You should now be able to download the newest Money by going to your App Store page and updating.

If you like the continued support for Money, the best way you can thank us is by reviewing the game AFTER you've downloaded the new edition, or else updating your review if you've already written one. This helps us get new reviews on the main iTunes page for Money, as all existing reviews are pushed to a subsidiary page whenever we release an update.

Here's a direct URL to review Money:
http://tinyurl.com/raterkmoney

You should see a "Write a Review" link to the right once iTunes pops up.

Thanks,

Shannon

PS: Here's a quick look at the future: I'm currently working on Reiner Knizia's Modern Art: The Card Game, which should see release in about 3 months. On the update schedule, I've got three things in my loose plans: a 1.01 update for Michael Schacht's Gold!, including some AI updates and a few other small things I have notes on; a 1.10 update for Kingdoms, mainly adding audio, but also integrating the speed improvements from Gold!; and a 1.40 update for Money, adding localizations for French and German. I'm planning to do at least one of those, probably the Gold! update, by the end of the month.