I enjoy playing Sudoku, and have for a long time. It’s not a daily habit or anything, but every once in a while I get the Sudoku bug and search out some puzzles to solve. Most recently this happened to me a month or so ago after seeing the viral Miracle Sudoku video. I popped over to the App Store and searched out a handful of Sudoku apps to play, some of which I’d already downloaded before but had since gotten rid of.
Why was that" Why was it so hard to find an app featuring one of the most popular games types in the world that made you want to stick with it" It’s not that there aren’t some very good Sudoku apps out there, because there are. But the problem for someone like me is that they tend to skew too far in the easy direction or too far in the hard direction for a casual player, and it’s rare to find an app that has intuitive mechanics and UI. Most Sudoku apps are cumbersome and a chore to play. Developer Zach Gage is known for taking tried and true gameplay mechanics and putting unique spins on them in order to create new and wonderful experiences. His games are also known for having elegant and intuitive UIs and in general are just a pleasure to use. In the case of Sudoku it wasn’t so much that the game itself needed some sort of twist, but the way that game was delivered to you in a mobile app needed to be rethought from the ground up. And so that brings us to Good Sudoku, a new Sudoku game for iOS from Zach Gage and...