GameGlyph app for iPhone and iPad


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Developer: PhoneApp.com
2.99 USD
Current version: 2.0.2, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 27 Mar 2011
App size: 71.78 Kb

Chess, Card, Die Faces, and Trigrams:  iPad App for Games and Cleromancy

GameGlyph Features:
✓ Twitter integration - New in version 2
✓ E-mail integration - New in version 2
✓ An integrated, full-function text editor
✓ Compatible with Mail, Notes, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Brainboard plus more iPad apps
✓ One-tap editing without searching code tables
✓ One-button “Copy All”, “Clear All”, and “Save All”
✓ Supports all screen orientations
✓ Easy addition of glyphs into the snippet text area; tap the symbol directly to enter it "hex-to-unicode" function converts 4-character codes directly into the corresponding glyph
✓ Available for those who wish to point out who is ♔ or roll seven, ⚂ ⚃ as shown here.

From the makers of Cymbol, GameGlyph gives you easy iPad access to the tools to annotate, document, and message game information using your favorite iPad applications. With GameGlyph, you can easily copy and paste snippets or complete messages containing both text and game icons into SMS, Twitter, email, or any other text-based application, or save complex snippets for later use. You can even convert Unicode into glyphs for other games if the codes are supported in the target font.

CHESS

Chess players can more directly cite  plays, en-passant or a variety of other sophisticated moves are illustrated as notes with GameGlyph. Then just paste the game sequence of play into your Mail, Pages, Notes or Numbers as part of a tournament report.

All chess pieces are available, both the color white and the color black:

✓ white chess king ♔ - black chess king ♚
✓ white chess queen ♕ - black chess queen ♛
✓ white chess rook ♖ - black chess rook ♜
✓ white chess bishop ♗ - black chess bishop ♝
✓ white chess knight ♘ - black chess knight ♞
✓ white chess pawn ♙ - black chess pawn ♟

CARD GAMES

Card players, such as those in bridge clubs or poker games, such as Texas holdem will find writing up a serious set of plays easily accomplished. Black Jack players may count on GameGlyph as quick method to track the game play.

✓ ♡ White heart card suit
✓ ♢ White diamond card suit
✓ ♤ White spade card suit
✓ ♧ White club card suit

DICE ROLLS

Almost any dice based game easily illustrated with a very few quick taps.

✓ ⚀ Die face-1 or if the roll is a one
✓ ⚁ Die face-2 or if the roll is a two
✓ ⚂ Die face-3 or if the roll is a three
✓ ⚃ Die face-4 or if the roll is a four
✓ ⚄ Die face-5 or if the roll is a five
✓ ⚅ Die face-6 or if the roll is a six
✓ ⚀ ⚀  with two taps in GameGlyph and you have the classic snake eyes roll with dice!

PURE FUN

Or last, but if you want an extreme example is shown here!
✓ SKULL AND CROSSBONES ☠ for talk like a pirate day mateys!

BRANDING AND IMAGE

While GameGlyph is primarily a snippet editing and management resource for gamers, it is also useful for designing packaging, label copy and presentations where a special symbol and a brief amount of text identifies activities, the company, themes or a branding messages.  Also in a presentation arena, you may wish to add regal touch or a sense of your theme!

Twitter and e-mail integration is now in this release. Upcoming releases will include new backgrounds, an expanding symbol set, and even more improved user communications capabilities with new options. Extended input capability, bi-directional conversions chess notation of characters and hex unicode representation are also slated for future GameGlyph releases.