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[Desert Dog]

Presidents and Paupers

Howdy folks, the Real Desert Dog here.

I've recently worked in collaboration with Dangerous_Dave, to bring my latest creation to the Mac!

It's Presidents&Paupers, the popular party/family card game, known by an assortment of other names, like Scum, Bum, and some that aren't so family-friendly.

The game is commercial, so it costs money. It's available on the mac app store for $3. Alternatively, you can buy it from the Taihoa Publishing Web page for whatever price you think it's worth (minimum of $1 to cover costs, otherwise they'll charge us!!)

Here's a screenshot, to get your fingers itchy to play some cards!:


Download Site

You can find more screenshots, and a download for a Demo on the webpage here:
http://www.taihoapublishing.com/presidents/

Mac app store link

Also, for you mac app store users, you can find it here, if you don't like our website, for whatever reason
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/presidents-and-paupers/id452570151?mt=12

All ratings&comments appreciated!

Please note that if you purchase from the Mac app store, that mac app store takes 30% of the sales price, leaving us with less money, than if you purchase from our(well D_Dave's) site.

Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours...

I've got 2 1 mac store Promo codes here, so if anyone here runs a blog, or website where they review games,(or maybe a youtube channel) just post(or PM) a link to your site/channel, and I'll PM you a promo code, so you can grab a copy for free.

Only 2 1 (for now!) so be in quick!

Cheers! Hope you enjoy the game!
~DD

Edited by Desert Dog, 07 August 2011 - 11:06 PM.

[NakedPaulToast]

I bought this app from the Mac app store.

Not because I was desperately interested in the game, nor because Presidents and Paupers is a card game that is of huge interest to me, but because spending 2.99 is not of consequence to me, and to support two GMC members who I like and admire.

Having said that, I do like this card game. When I played it in the past I knew it by a different name, starting with an "A" and ending with "hole", I seem to remember alcohol being involved as well. This is a nice implementation, and a nice change from all the solitaire games.

I'd like to see more options and configurability, ie number of players, number of card to pass, actual cards to pass.

Good luck

[Desert Dog]

Thanks for the support NPT! ( For the record, I sent him a courtesy promo code, which he ignored..!)

And I think Apple let us keep only one of those 2 A* tags.

I'd like to see more options and configurability, ie number of players, number of card to pass, actual cards to pass.

I think more players option I should look at, it was always planned, but during the 'visual' polishing (the game use to look like this: http://img69.imagesh...enshot100te.png ) somehow that idea got lost.

Other configuration, I actually wanted to steer clear of, keep the game as simply&straight forward as possible. I never played by any other rules, and when I googled up (and eventually found) a variant of the game, I didn't enjoy how they'd interpreted the rules, and none of their rather numerous 'options' made sense, and since I was already familiar with (my variation of) the game, and it confused even me, I figured it'd confuse too many of my players.

'course, those 2 choices I made left the game pretty bare-bones as far as options were concerned! I don't mind too much, sometimes simple is best, and since it provides an even more stark contrast to D_Dave's TimeRift. We've priced them the same, and we're 'sale racing' to see who does better, which should be interesting.

Thanks for the luck!

And if anyone's wondering, the demo show-cases pretty much the whole game, just with a few annoying pop-ups&game rounds restrictions.

1 mac app store promo code down, 1 left.

Edited by Desert Dog, 07 August 2011 - 10:38 PM.