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Zxanphorian
Oct 28, 2007, 01:51 AM
Under the two navigation arrows, there should be a drop down menu that contains all of the games so that the user can pick the game they want to play a little easier than rotating the lazy Susan type selector.

The same thing can be especially useful with Solitaire, since I feel the icons are a little difficult to quickly interpret which game they are correlated with.

CKay
Oct 28, 2007, 08:01 PM
In Astraware Solitaire, there is such a menu. At the Welcome screen, if you open the menus, (Menu - Settings - About), under "Menu", you'll see an item called "Choose Game". This brings up a box with every game icon shown, and if you tap once on an icon, you'll see the name of that chosen icon underneath it. A second tap will launch that game. This is something we specifically requested during beta testing of Solitaire, but I don't believe it came up during Boardgames, although it would be a good idea to add it if there's any kind of update planned...Sometimes with the wheel selector is a bit difficult to find the game you want...I often use the "choose game" menu item during Solitaire.

Zxanphorian
Oct 28, 2007, 08:44 PM
Ahh I didn't catch that in Solitaire!

PaulS
Nov 5, 2007, 10:19 AM
We didn't feel this was as necessary with Boardgames only having 8 games rather than the 12 of Solitaire, and also the icons being a little more instantly recognisable.

If there is enough demand I would guess that we could include a similar menu to the one in Solitaire in an update to Boardgames :)