Mach Dice app good for
This app is everything you need to play GURPS, D&D or WHATEVER game you need dice for.
Very responsive and fast dice. Impressive! Just some comments:
- The circle in the logo in the background is a little aliased.
- The perspective seems a little funny when tilting. It doesnt look like the far sides of the dice are appropriately shorter from the distance.
- Shadows dont change when tilting. See how MotionX Dice handles it to see what I mean!
- The app doesnt remember my dice settings between relaunches.
Looking forward to seeing this already nice app improve!
Ive tried a handful of dice apps, and this is by far the best. Youre able to roll a good number of dice, add a modifier and go to town.
It can do nonstandard die types (d5, for example) and so works as a random number generator as well. Fantastic UI, with a really clever faux-3d look.
The developer has also said that the ability to lock dice is coming in the next release. Pretty great. Worth a dollar, easy.
It does what it says it will. Go watch the video on his site. It certainly sold me.
Mach Dice blows away all of the other dice programs out there! For 99c, theres no reason you shouldnt have this on your phone. Whether you just want it for the occasional board game, or youre a hardcore D&D fan, this is an essential app to have. The implementation is just superb, and the latest version adds new backgrounds and different colored dice.
The only issue I have concerns using this app to play Axis and Allies. If you could just sort the dice in ascending or descending order, it would help. Displaying the dice in rows and columns instead of randomly scattered would speed up the game. Also once you choose the dice, if you only had to enter the number of dice would be helpful, but the current setup is ok too.
Otherwise, excellent and well worth the money.
Some bad moments
I liked the application just fine but it caused a memory leak which crashed my whole iPhone 3G. Mach Dice is uninstalled until the leaks fixed.
I tried this for about half a session of D&D. Honestly I found the number / letter input slow and cumbersome. It doesnt help that the letters and numbers are on different keyboards. Myself and others around me quickly became impatient waiting for me to enter rolls and the app was abandoned in favor of "Dice Roller". It is faster, matches the D&D manuals, and has a much better feature set than Mach Dice.
I gave this app another try after about 6 months of using other dice apps. Unfortunately, this app seems fatally flawed. Slow load times, awkward dice "feel", and still prone to frequent crashes & severe memory leaks (had to reboot my iphone to clear the memory error -- same problem as I had before). Sorry Mach Dice. Other dice apps do it better.
This dice roller is to perfect. If I roll 36 d6 say for warhammer 40k and the to hit is 4+ I can gaurente that I am going to get at least 15ish hits. This is all the time. It is an on going joke that when I pull out my iPhone people know I am going to hit.
I just downloaded this, and like it so far except.... To change the dice is an In App Purchase????? Seriously? That blows!
Formula gets wiped if you want to edit/add/remove dice from table
New custom dice get formula ids that bounce the others which messes up the formula using the other existing dice
Locked dice dont STAY locked when leaving a table.
Cant customize dice with basic iOS keyboard numbers/letters/symbols. You have to import pictures. Cumbersome.
The formula entry screen doesnt always work.
Creating/managing multiple sets of dice in this, that need to be used as a "group" or "team" of dice on a single table is nearly impossible in this app. You might have 2 sets of 5 dice set up. 2 formulas on two tables to use the 2 sets. As soon as you create another custom dice (the first in another 3rd set) the dice on your two previous tables and formulas are screwed up ( see 2nd issue described above ). HORRIBLE.
This app needs a ton of refinement.
