Crashed my iPad
Upon launching the app, my iPad froze. Don't risk your iPad on this.
Best dice app until...
I got this app and was very happy because unlike most other diceapps it let me have two different color dice of the same type for me it was so i could use the dice to easily generate rolls from 1 to 100 and with two rows and two different colors it was easy with the update the app is more like other apps with only one row, and even though you can pickthecolor of the dice they are the same color. Please return to the two column style please...gamer in distress
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Great core, bad UI
The physical dice simulation, which is the core of the app, is fantastic. Unfortunately, it's shortchanged by a poorly designed UI.
* It uses only the accelerometer for rolling. It works great, however:
- This makes nearly impossible to use in a car, which is one of the primary places you'd really WANT to use virtual dice!
- Many people don't want to shake the whole device in order to reroll the dice. You might have it lying in the middle of a table so people can play a game with it, and they don't want to be physically moving the device.
* Only a few seconds after each roll, it starts making the device BLINK and puts the text "Shake to roll again" across the screen. This is extremely annoying. There are a lot of dice games that require looking at a roll for extended periods. Nobody wants to stare at blinking dice.
* It puts numbers on the side, which most people don't want or need. No way to remove them.
* It has a giant camera icon on the bottom to enable a feature (using the camera for the background) that most people will never use. No way to remove it.
* The "back" button which returns you to the dice selection is a giant, blue and completely opaque.
**How To Fix The UI**
* Remove the camera button.
* Shrink the back button, make it a more neutral color (beige is my recommendation; closer to a complementary color for the green felt), and make it semi opaque, so it's as unobtrusive as possible.
* Change the dice selection screen to include a options:
- a switch to toggle between accelerometer rolling and swipe rolling
- a switch to turn display of rolling instructions on/off
- a switch to turn number display on/off
- a switch to turn the camera background mode on/off
That's it. The app is better looking and easier to use.
* It uses only the accelerometer for rolling. It works great, however:
- This makes nearly impossible to use in a car, which is one of the primary places you'd really WANT to use virtual dice!
- Many people don't want to shake the whole device in order to reroll the dice. You might have it lying in the middle of a table so people can play a game with it, and they don't want to be physically moving the device.
* Only a few seconds after each roll, it starts making the device BLINK and puts the text "Shake to roll again" across the screen. This is extremely annoying. There are a lot of dice games that require looking at a roll for extended periods. Nobody wants to stare at blinking dice.
* It puts numbers on the side, which most people don't want or need. No way to remove them.
* It has a giant camera icon on the bottom to enable a feature (using the camera for the background) that most people will never use. No way to remove it.
* The "back" button which returns you to the dice selection is a giant, blue and completely opaque.
**How To Fix The UI**
* Remove the camera button.
* Shrink the back button, make it a more neutral color (beige is my recommendation; closer to a complementary color for the green felt), and make it semi opaque, so it's as unobtrusive as possible.
* Change the dice selection screen to include a options:
- a switch to toggle between accelerometer rolling and swipe rolling
- a switch to turn display of rolling instructions on/off
- a switch to turn number display on/off
- a switch to turn the camera background mode on/off
That's it. The app is better looking and easier to use.
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Good
I think it's great for games w/ 1 or 2 die but otherwise it's very cramped.
Personally I like Real dice roll way better for D&D ( dungeons and dragons) oh, and 1 more thing
It needs a D4 die
Personally I like Real dice roll way better for D&D ( dungeons and dragons) oh, and 1 more thing
It needs a D4 die
Not Bad
The Good: Very responsive to the accelerometer and the rolling is far less "floaty" than many of the other 3D dice rollers. And hey, it's free.
The Bad: Seriously, no d4? Why would you leave out the d4? No dice locking. Only 6 dice at a time. No color options. No way to save dice combinations. Ads at the top of the screen.
I'm not necessarily looking for a roller that allows for modified rolls and a ton of other bells and whistles. It would be very nice to be able to roll more dice (up to 20 would be awesome, but at least 10. I understand the format has its limitations). Essentially, what I'm saying is that this is a really solid foundation. Beef it up a bit, add color options, more dice, the ability to save specific rolls and for the love of all that's holy, gimme a d4. An unneccesarry but welcome addition would be FUDGE dice (d6 with two + sides, two - sides and two blank sides). Remove the very annoying ads. All of this would make for an excellent basic dice roller that I would easily pay a couple of bucks for.
The Bad: Seriously, no d4? Why would you leave out the d4? No dice locking. Only 6 dice at a time. No color options. No way to save dice combinations. Ads at the top of the screen.
I'm not necessarily looking for a roller that allows for modified rolls and a ton of other bells and whistles. It would be very nice to be able to roll more dice (up to 20 would be awesome, but at least 10. I understand the format has its limitations). Essentially, what I'm saying is that this is a really solid foundation. Beef it up a bit, add color options, more dice, the ability to save specific rolls and for the love of all that's holy, gimme a d4. An unneccesarry but welcome addition would be FUDGE dice (d6 with two + sides, two - sides and two blank sides). Remove the very annoying ads. All of this would make for an excellent basic dice roller that I would easily pay a couple of bucks for.
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