{"id":96259,"date":"2019-07-03T16:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T16:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/playdek-fluxx-digital-ios-android\/"},"modified":"2019-07-03T16:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T16:06:43","slug":"playdek-to-bring-back-the-mobile-version-of-card-game-fluxx-on-july-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/03\/playdek-to-bring-back-the-mobile-version-of-card-game-fluxx-on-july-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayDek to bring back the mobile version of card game Fluxx on July 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/playdek-to-bring-back-the-mobile-version-of-card-game-fluxx-on-july-18th.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"author\">By Joe Robinson<\/span> <span class=\"date\">03 Jul 2019<\/span> <\/p>\n<div id=\"content-container\">\n<p>Anyone who was around in 2013 may remember back in the halcyon days of PlayDek\u2019s time as a developer of digital board\/ card games that we reviewed their digital adaptation of <em>Fluxx<\/em>. I\u2019m not going to link the review because, honestly, the CMS transitions have not been kind to articles from that era but it was a pretty decent port of a wonderful and chaotic card game.<\/p>\n<p>PlayDek\u2019s <em>Fluxx<\/em> was originally released in 2012 but was removed from the app store in 2017 during the iOS 11 \u2018Appocalypse\u2019. At the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Playdek\/posts\/with-apples-release-of-ios-11-that-requires-64bit-operation-support-this-is-the-\/1559497434109322\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PlayDek said they had no plans<\/a> to update the game (and four others) to 64-bit. Thankfully, plans change!<\/p>\n<p>Playdek have today announced that they\u2019re bring Fluxx back to mobile \u2013 iOS AND Android \u2013 on July 18<sup>th<\/sup>! It\u2019ll cost $2.99 and be a universal app, working on both tablets and phones.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve never encountered it before, <em>Fluxx<\/em> was created by Looney Labs and is a card game where everything, including the rules of the game itself, can change during a player\u2019s turn. There are \u2018New Rules\u2019 cards, Action cards and differing objectives that can be played to the field. It\u2019s chaos, but it\u2019s also wonderful and a great group game. Since its original release in the late 90\u2019s it\u2019s gone through several versions and has even sported several themed and licensed spin-offs \u2013 like <em>Firefly Fluxx<\/em>, or <em>Zombie Fluxx<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the main features of the new digital version:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Offline and Online play for 2-4 players<\/li>\n<li>Human and AI opponents<\/li>\n<li>Pass-and-play Multiplayer<\/li>\n<li>Full asynchronous support for multiplayer online games<\/li>\n<li>Invite friends to online games<\/li>\n<li>Online player stats<\/li>\n<li>Localized for English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch<\/li>\n<li>Tutorial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you purchased the app originally on iOS between 2012 and its de-listing in 2017, you&#8217;re in luck: PlayDek have confirmed with us that you <strong>won&#8217;t<\/strong> have to purchase it again:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Previous customers will not have to purchase the game again. They just need to redownload it as it will show up under the previous Apple ID they purchased the game under.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Like the previous app, this new partnership with Looney does not currently extend to any of the spin-offs or licensed versions of <em>Fluxx<\/em> \u2013 only the base\/original game.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you remember of the original Fluxx game? Are you excited for this new version? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Robinson 03 Jul 2019 Anyone who was around in 2013 may remember back in the halcyon days of PlayDek\u2019s time as a developer of digital board\/ card games that we reviewed their digital adaptation of Fluxx. I\u2019m not going to link the review because, honestly, the CMS transitions have not been kind to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}