iPad gaming fingerprints

[alexxkay]

Lately, I've been doing a lot of gaming on my iPad. The iPad has a very nice surface, that can be easily cleaned. And after enough fingerprint smudges build up, you really ought to clean it.

What I am amused by is that most games have a very distinctive smudge pattern. When my iPad is off, and light is reflecting in such a way as to highlight the smudges, I can tell what I've been playing lately. The regular grid of dots that make a game of Oasis. The up-from-the-bottom strokes to play cards in Lost Cities. The over-from-the-side strokes of a game of Ascension. Plants Versus Zombies has a straight column of smudges on the left, and then scattered smudges all over the main playfield (though more dense at the left of it). The row of smudges for the Glyphs at the side of a game of Elder Sign: Omens. Not all the games I play have such distinctive patterns, but many do :-)

[All games mentioned in this post are highly recommended, by the way.]

Comments

[corwyn-ap.livejournal.com]

"The regular grid of dots that make a game of ."

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[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

fixed!

[siderea]

Plants Versus Zombies has a straight column of smudges on the left, and then scattered smudges all over the main playfield (though more dense at the left of it).

You do know that you can use garlics to have a horizontal sunflower layout?

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Yep. Once you've unlocked them, of course. And I like to vary my strategies even after that. But Garlic + Fume-Shrooms is a classic combo.

[siderea]

Garlic and mushrooms: two great tastes. :)

[ilaine-dcmrn.livejournal.com]

I'd noticed that. I can always tell when Brian has swiped my ipad to play pvz :o)