London, United Kingdom – Happymagenta today is pleased to announce the launch date of Video Poker by Happymagenta, their artistic touch on a classic card game, with a beautiful card deck art, sleek graphic design and fluid animations, is set to 21.03.2013.
Lovely painted by a team of professionally skilled, creative digital artists, Video Poker by Happymagenta is designed to specifically maximize the awesome effect of amazing Retina displays of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch – features a whole set of magnificently crisp high resolution card faces, illustrations and a sleek graphical interface.
“We love digital painting, graphic design and are passionate game makers. We also like games to be engaging, as well as beautiful. Thus, today we are excited to present our new card game with an especially interesting global country versus country daily tournament.” – tells Alexander Novoselov, lead art director, CEO and co-founder of Happymagenta.
In addition to a traditional offline gameplay and online leaderboards Video Poker by Happymagenta offers players to take part in a worldwide, global country vs. country competition. As a player is online with Game Center, his daily score affects the global rating of the country he plays for – enjoying the game during a normal gameplay he teams with all other players from his country to compete with other countries. Also, the offline play results aren’t lost and are submitted to online leaderboards as soon as the player gets back connected.
The realistic in-game card shuffle engine employs a cryptographic grade random number generation algorithms, that pass strict equal and unbiased data distribution tests and are normally used to generate cryptographic keys, make the game as close to the real as possible, providing players with a possibility to polish their poker skills and their winning strategies.
Features:
* Play both Offline and Online, over Wi-Fi or cellular
* Per country and worldwide ratings
* Global country vs. country competition
* Free poker chips on lose
* Hi-Lo game with double bonus
* Fast game speed
* Realistic casino grade shuffle engine
* Detailed, comprehensive statistics
* Beautifully crafted art and cards
* Universal app for your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch
* Sync over iCloud between devices
A non-aggressive in-app purchase policy is a pleasant surprise. Players are in a no way forced to spend money, unless they want to instantly jump into a high stakes levels. An amount of in-game poker chips necessary for the most effective play is achieved via a normal gameplay, and, in case all chips are lost, a free pack of chips comes as a bonus to get to back to playing instantly, with no extra waiting.
Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
* Optimized for iOS 6, as well as for iOS 5
* Supports iCloud Sync
* Requires iOS 5.0 or later
* Universal Application
* 46 MB
Pricing and Availability:
Video Poker by Happymagenta is set to launch on 21.03.2013 for $0.99, will be available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.
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Video Poker by Happymagenta
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Happymagenta is a privately held company founded in 2006. With a focus on the iOS platform, Happymagenta was formed by a group of highly skilled software engineers who love programming and have a passion to create unique applications. Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Happymagenta Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod touch and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.