Five Dice

Think Yahtzee! Fun, and easy to play. Great game for killing a time since it will hold your place. Play whenever you want. The iPhone is a great platform for a native version of this game. Enjoy!

The Road to 1.0

Prior to .8b this was very much a proof of concept. The last time I wrote a Yahtzee game was nearly 17 years ago, in HyperCard. After getting an iPhone I found myself missing having Yahtzee on my cell phone. I was also looking for projects to get a little more familiar with the current iPhone development. Once the game was playable and released, I branched off at .2.8b, and rewrote large portions of the code. These changes have made the game more stable, faster, and most importantly more fun to play.

To Do for 1.0

• Game persistence (So you can leave and come back where you left off)
• About box (donations are accepted)
• High Scores (Compete against yourself. Maybe online scores down the road)
• Intro screen with player selection
• 2 players
• Minor roll sounds, and yahtzee alert sounds. Maybe even vibrate the phone when rolling.
• Shake the phone to roll the dice

Have Fun!

The main playable game is more or less complete. Still tweaking a few things here and there, but it is a great way to enjoy a few moments on your iPhone.

What's New

.8.8b Fixed bug where after viewing high scores you could not go back to your current game, only start a new one.

.8.7b Made holds stay after 3rd roll, and clear when starting next turn. Fixed bug where you could go on to the next turn without placing a score. CHEATERS!

.8.6b Modified about box based on some user feedback. If this seems over the top, I will take out the PayPal button.

.8.5b A couple of minor adjustment, and added the new icon from Louie Mantia

.8.4b Fixed a text focusing issue when changing the player name that could cause unwanted characters in the player name.

.8.3b Some minor text changes.

.8.2b Some behavior and bug fixes. One prevents a false yahtzee scratch issue, and the other fix is a game over issue that could cause a high score to be set more than once.

.8.1b A few text mistakes corrected.

.8b BIG Changes. Added high scores, name changing, menu screen, much improved game saving optimizations, and overall playability improvements.

.3-.7 These were largely internal releases while rebuilding. The bug jump in version numbers is the result of getting closer to 1.0 without inundating the Installer.app repositories with such frequent updates.

.2.8b Modified some scoring behavior for the first yahtzee. Also tweaked some new game and game over behaviors.

.2.6b Fixed Yahtzee bonus persistence problem.

.2.5b Added score card animation. Fixed small bug with the turn counter. In some cases you couldn't play your last turn. :-(

.2b Game persistence. Suspend the game, and return where you left off. Remember folks, this is beta software. Seems to be working well in my testing. Nice to be able to return to your regularly scheduled fun right where you were. New icon. I thought this looked a little cleaner. At least on my SpringBoard. Some other minor tweaks.

Donations

Many hours have gone into developing and improving Five Dice. If you enjoy playing the game, please consider donating a few bucks via PayPal to: c h r i s (at) borngraphics.com. Most of all, enjoy playing.

More screen shots as we move along

• Main Menu (.5b and above)

• High Scores (.5b and above)

• Game Play (Full House)

• Game Over (You really should play again.)