Game preparation:
The app must first be downloaded to a smartphone (iOS, Android), this is the easiest thesmall the QR code in the manual or on the corresponding links to the App Stores.
If the app is installed, it starts and the player enters his name - with 2 players, both with its own report, drawn profile in succession to.
The board comes in the middle of the table, the cell phone is practically inserted into the holder and lashed, the material and scanning markers are laid out.
The app logs to start with a brief introduction and explained eventually gradually the rest of the procedure.
Aim of the game:
To repair the spaceship, so the Micro Minds can fly home again.
How to play:
The game explains itself automatically through the App and leads the players carefully through each level. The main texts are always read, only the Nachschlagetexte the Micropedia must be read - but these are only additional Informationsbeiwerk and not decide the game, but very interesting.
Generally, each mission begins with the King of the Micro Minds. These moves to the mobile frame to his field on the game board, so that the camera can capture him precisely and presses the camera button on the app. Now, the playing area is scanned and (possibly experimenting with the light) is generally well recognized, whereupon the app performs the appropriate actions (matching character view, play texts and tasks, etc.)!
The missions improve the transfer achieved by mini-games to be executed on the mobile phone.
These are shooting and Geschicklichkeitsspielchen, must be taken where specific flying elements and / or moved or assigned.
The games are relatively intuitive and designed accordingly self-explanatory, although the previously spoken text was not heard once.
Each game is played over three levels and be rewarded at the end by selecting the appropriate score - the points can be significantly increased by combos, for example if certain items are made to several at once.
The more by playing the missions successfully "repaired", the more is then also gradually to game variations through appropriate equipment (projector, Fluidator, constructor) available.
In addition, each game (the little Cardboard Tokens) is the embedding (scan ahead) of so-called modifiers variable.
Full time:
The game can be interrupted any time, there is zwischegespeichert continuously. When all missions were completed, the game ends and the Micro Minds fly back home. However, it is at any time all missions to be played again, for example, to improve their own point record.
Conclusion:
As Ravensburger creates a very interesting competition with its own product, the tiptoi!
The app of Micro Minds is already quite mature and variable in the change, so that must be assumed that future games of this series can do even more, and so even more depth have to be.
The tiptoi series will probably advance more towards pure learning game and the Ravensburger Digital real family game.
The Micro Minds are a successful debut. The physical material is still very valuable and wonderful to behold and the virtual world in the smartphone also. Very colorful but not too exaggerated, clearly visible and above all error-free (in the previous rounds of testing). The audio files are very clear and generally stored in a pleasant quality, without ever coming to a noticeable stuttering charge!
The main game itself is rather simple knitted, but through the multi-layered adventure packages for the kids always exciting, challenging and interesting for a lot of laps!
One might dismiss the Simpel-Plink or the simple shifting of colors as Hirnvernebler for children. But we found it in the cute graphics and within the meaning of previously always wonderful declared experimentation, has no shooter airs the usual smartphone games! All tasks are explained sense and then play Also according to "instructive" (glass of other elements separate (shoot off / push), because only this is required for straight machine XY) can tackle.
The game board (showing the great, but battered spaceship), is always involved with, by you have to push the mobile phone camera to the right place or by inserting certain materials (cardboard markers) into predetermined recesses.
A great new Beschäftigungsspielart that could reveal the future of gaming.
Further information:
- Publisher: Ravensburger
- BGG entry: n / a
- HP: ...
- Instructions: German
- Material: language-neutral; Texts of the app: German
- Photos: ...
