Great app and community!
Super clean app for playing turn based and live pente! Great community too
Perfextikn
beautiful
Greatness
Try it. You’ll love it.
Grid is too small for my fingers.
Even with the expanded view, it frequently drops the stone in the wrong spot
Response from developer
But you can always re-place the stone before you submit
Game play is arbitrary
This is, from what I’ve seen, the only Pente game play that includes single player (i.e., against the “computer”), which is exceedingly hard, even at level 1, my criticism is of the actual game play. Too many times have I lost a game because what I thought was my move actually ended up in a different position. I will not say that my subsequent move would have won the game, but I can definitely say that the computer’s move won the game more than a few times!
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Response from developer
If this is against the onboard ai, just swipe twice left on the board (undo the computer move and then yours) and place another
Frustrating gameplay
Can we have a replay button juste to see what we did wrong or what we miss?
No learning curve
Title says it all. This game is rather pointless unless you have been playing for literal freaking decades and know literally every possible outcome of a game.
Great Pente App !!
I love this app. You can play Pente (and many variants) local or online. Get it and start having fun and getting better. Let's keep Pente's spirit alive !
Game good, app bad
The game Pente is amazing! Unfortunately, the app is littered with distracting ads, difficult to read, requires an unnecessary account signup process (why can’t I Sign in with AppleID or google?) and has an awkward user interface.
What about landscape mode on an iPad
The title says it best, I am running on an iPad and it is in portrait mode. Otherwise, the game runs well. I have a keyboard attached and only use the iPad in landscape mode. So, I was pretty surprised when I open this app and it didn’t spin. Maybe there is an option somewhere I missed??
Seriously??
I hate when you sign up and the first thing you get is questioned if you are enjoying the “Live Play”. You automatically get a 1 star for asking stupid questions.
Excellent platform
Excellent platform - players are polite - highly recommend this game for players of all levels - admin is helpful when needed - I play this game a lot
Great game but …
I really like this game and appreciate the face that I can play against others. But there is some needed changes as the following:
-The AI board acts very fast, the response time would be much smoother and fun if it was slowed.
-The user interface can be developed more.
Besides that, very good work !
-The AI board acts very fast, the response time would be much smoother and fun if it was slowed.
-The user interface can be developed more.
Besides that, very good work !
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Really great, but makes me feel stupid.
I love pente. I’ve played it since I was five and I was so excited to find this app, and it’s really great! My only problem is that every AI game I’ve played I haven’t stood a chance. Live is great, love it. But the AI.. honestly I respect it, but even on level 1? I’ll stick to playing live.
If you’re a beginner and just learning the game don’t use the AI. You won’t really learn and you’ll just rage quit. I’ll keep trying to beat it, but I’m not holding out hope lol
If you’re a beginner and just learning the game don’t use the AI. You won’t really learn and you’ll just rage quit. I’ll keep trying to beat it, but I’m not holding out hope lol
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Too many bugs
Changes my last location, freezes, bumps me out of a game.
Awkward User Interface
I love that we have an implementation of Pente on the App Store and it’s AI is incredible!
Unfortunately, the user interface is extremely awkward and unforgiving. It is way too easy to misplace a piece while removing your finger from the board. Tap-to-zoom means I can’t see a significant amount of the board, because my finger and hand is blocking my view. The only reason I can think of for implementing this interface might have to do with a “you let go of the piece and it’s played” rule. But that really sucks when my confidence in placing a piece accurately is so low.
I would much rather have pinch to zoom and a separate “finish move” button so that I can correct any errors before turning control to the next player. The original IOS Carcassonne did this and is a model well worth studying and copying.
It is not worth compromising enjoyment of the game for such an awkward interface. Please look into redesigning this. I would play it so much more and buy a Pente.org membership once I’m confident that the app will let me play where I want.
—UPDATE—
After receiving Waleid’s response, I fired up the game and started playing the AI. Which is not a live game. No Submit button is present.
His advice to move to an illegal position doesn’t help when, in the process of committing to the move you want to make, the stone ends up in an adjacent, legal position that’s not desirable. Lowering the rating in light of the unhelpful response. Really hoping Waleid rethinks the design as this really is a fantastic game.
Unfortunately, the user interface is extremely awkward and unforgiving. It is way too easy to misplace a piece while removing your finger from the board. Tap-to-zoom means I can’t see a significant amount of the board, because my finger and hand is blocking my view. The only reason I can think of for implementing this interface might have to do with a “you let go of the piece and it’s played” rule. But that really sucks when my confidence in placing a piece accurately is so low.
I would much rather have pinch to zoom and a separate “finish move” button so that I can correct any errors before turning control to the next player. The original IOS Carcassonne did this and is a model well worth studying and copying.
It is not worth compromising enjoyment of the game for such an awkward interface. Please look into redesigning this. I would play it so much more and buy a Pente.org membership once I’m confident that the app will let me play where I want.
—UPDATE—
After receiving Waleid’s response, I fired up the game and started playing the AI. Which is not a live game. No Submit button is present.
His advice to move to an illegal position doesn’t help when, in the process of committing to the move you want to make, the stone ends up in an adjacent, legal position that’s not desirable. Lowering the rating in light of the unhelpful response. Really hoping Waleid rethinks the design as this really is a fantastic game.
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App down ?
2 days ago the app could not be played anymore. When opened (IPhone) screen frozen and doesn’t show any info. Downloaded it again did not change a thing. I love this app, what happened? Update: thanks Othman for the feedback. Hope the app will be ok soon
Greetings thankful for gracious blessings.
PenteLive is enjoyable with my good institutional WiFi connection. I don’t have internet. No more email. Apple ID is kaput without password? ! ??
Best wishes and hopes for 2021.
PenteLive is good.
Best wishes and hopes for 2021.
PenteLive is good.
Too fast to observe and seems to cheat
This game cheats and makes it not fun :(
I love this game in board game format and was so excited to see an online app. However, when playing the computer, it seems rigged to win & purposefully goes super fast that you cannot see the move the computer makes (other than where it landed with your pieces “mysteriously” captured) There have even been times when captures took place that weren’t possible but my pieces get moved by the computer (as another rater stated). I watched diligently for this and it happened frequently. If you can slow down the computer so the player can watch the move in real time (like other games allow) & fix the cheating glitch the game would be enjoyable; otherwise, who wants to play a game you can never win?
I love this game in board game format and was so excited to see an online app. However, when playing the computer, it seems rigged to win & purposefully goes super fast that you cannot see the move the computer makes (other than where it landed with your pieces “mysteriously” captured) There have even been times when captures took place that weren’t possible but my pieces get moved by the computer (as another rater stated). I watched diligently for this and it happened frequently. If you can slow down the computer so the player can watch the move in real time (like other games allow) & fix the cheating glitch the game would be enjoyable; otherwise, who wants to play a game you can never win?
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Response from developer
You can swipe left on the board to go back a move in the game, or swipe right on the board to go forward, in case you want to replay a move that went by too fast.
Great game, mediocre app
Game is great, AI is mostly pretty strong but you can manipulate it a bit. Worst part of this app is the, IMO, very poorly designed UI
