Terms Of Play vs Multitape Turing Machine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Terms Of Play
This app serves as a comprehensive, editable glossary of game design terms. It helps users familiarize themselves with industry vocabulary, clarify confusion, and create personalized glossaries with custom tags.
- Comprehensive glossary of game design terms
- Editable and expandable glossary
- A-Z index of terms
- Personalized glossary creation
- Customizable tags for terms
- Style sheet based output
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If you are just getting started in game design, then you probably have heard of the different terms thrown around and wondered what they mean. In game design, there are many components to take into consideration such as genre, platform, UI, UX etc. With each component comes new vocabulary and a wide range of acronyms and terms frequently used in the game world. This "Terms of Play" glossary is specifically aimed at supporting game design learning in higher education by providing a comprehensive, editable and expandable glossary of commonly used terminologies. The app provides an A-Z index of glossary terms for your gaming needs with an easy to use style sheet based output and automatically rendered index. With this, you can make a glossary of terms that is completely your own! This app will help you to: 1) Familiarize yourself with game terminology , create your own personalized glossary so that your glossary becomes more robust over time. 2) Clarify any confusion over specific terms and enable you to quickly enter new terms and also add customized tags to each term. If you would like to use this app, please contact Dr. Hanna Wirman, e-mail: hanna.wirman@polyu.edu.hk
Multitape Turing Machine
This app simulates a mathematical model of computation, allowing users to explore how abstract machines manipulate symbols on a tape according to defined rules. It's a tool for understanding the fundamental principles of computer algorithms.
- Turing machine simulation
- Symbol manipulation on tape
- Abstract computation model
- Algorithm understanding
- State and head movement
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Multitape Turing Machine Simulator. A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation describing an abstract machine, that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite the model's simplicity, it is capable of implementing any computer algorithm. The machine operates on a memory tape divided into cells, each of which can hold a single symbol drawn from symbols from the alphabet of the machine. It has a "head" that, at any point in the machine's operation, is positioned over one of these cells, and a "state" selected from a set of states. At each step of its operation, the head reads the symbol in its cell. Then, based on the symbol and the machine's own present state, the machine writes a symbol into the same cell, and moves the head one step to the left or the right, or halts the computation. The choice of which replacement symbol to write and which direction to move is based on a table that specifies what to do for each combination of the current state and the symbol that is read. Suggestions: snowlukin@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Multitape Turing Machine at 5.0 against Terms Of Play's 3.0. Multitape Turing Machine also leads on update cadence (every 8 months vs every 18 months). Terms Of Play's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Multitape Turing Machine holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Terms Of Play ships an update every 18 months, Multitape Turing Machine every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Terms Of Play | Multitape Turing Machine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apps Resource Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University | Denis Mandych |
Customer experience
Terms Of Play
Multitape Turing Machine
In-app purchases
Terms Of Play
No in-app purchases
Multitape Turing Machine
No in-app purchases
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