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Game Play Features

  • 400 sudoku puzzles
  • 4 difficulties - easy, medium, hard & expert
  • Records sudoku puzzles completed, best time and average time
  • Option to show correct numbers
  • Ability pencil numbers in
  • iPad tailored controls
  • Auto saves your game

Graphics & Sound

  • High resolution HD iPad specific graphics.
  • 3 different playing backgrounds - wood, carpet & fall leaves.
  • Designed to look like real life
  • Slick sound and animation that mimics a real sudoku book
  • Exceptionally easy to use and pick up.
  • Works with the iPad in portrait or landscape

Sudoku Real Edition Seen On

MIT's Technology Review, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), AppAdvice, appVersity, PadGadget

Press Information

All media inquiries and interviews should be arranged by emailing dave (at) sudokurealedition.com

Promo codes will be available to media who want to review Sudoku Real Edition.

Sudoku Real Edition is about taking a game everyone knows and implementing it into a polished, tailored app specifically for the iPad. Sudoku Real Edition has been created to be as real as possible so your mother or uncle will know how to play because it's just like playing a real sudoku book.

Game Play

The game play covers 400 puzzles spread over 4 difficulties. We generated thousands of boards and then ran an algorithm over them which rates their difficultly. You have to do it this way because it's impossible to generate a board to a certain difficulty, you can only generate one and find out how hard it really is later.

Graphics

The game graphics look incredible with the iPad's higher resolution. All major graphical elements are real items we photographed which provides a great feeling of realism. The sound and animations have all been modelled off a real book. Instead of a "pause screen" for example, Sudoku Real Edition implements a bookmark that slides into place. There is also "no wrong way up", everything automatically animates into the correct location regardless of how you're holding the iPad.

More Than Real

Although making everything as real as possible makes a nice game, we took advantage of features like records that are not possible in real life. Records keep track of your progress through the 400 puzzles and record your best and average time for completing the puzzles in each difficulty.

For those who like to know right away, you can be told if the number you entered is correct or not. The game also has special effects when you complete a square, row or column. However, if you like to stay true to the game you can turn all these options off so you have to know if you're correct.

Advanced Features

Advanced players will enjoy some of the other features that has been included. You can easily pencil in numbers for harder levels that leave you guessing and we have optimised the game to include gestures where you can select a number with a single drag.

Who and When

Sudoku Real Edition was created by David Jones and Amy Jones based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Sudoku Real Edition will be available in the iPad App Store on the 3rd of April, 2010.