raydac / AndroidPirateDice

Dice for the "Pirates" board game (the board game was developed by Vladimyr Golitsyn in 1934)

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Introduction

Amazing past time game

In childhood everyone liked to play in the Pirates board game (published in the Pioner magazine #6 1989), it is great game developed by russian game designer and artist Vladimir Golytsyn in 1934. Scanned map from the magazine

The Board game rules

I made some English translation of the original Russian article.

The Game dice

The Main problem for the game is that the game needs special dice to play
Special dice for the game
My friend made such device for our games but at present we have nice smartphones and I decided to make Android version of such dice.

How to install?

The Android application is compatible with Android 2.1+.
Google play
Also You can download prebuilt APK file and install manually to your device.

How to use?

After start you will see the dice indicator. Just touch the screen (with some delay) to start turn.
Standard screen Pro screen Redesigned screen
Also the applications can work wit non-touch screens so that it can be started even on Android based TV devices like IconBit Toucan 3D
TV Screen

How to change the dice layout?

To change the dice layout to PRO or REDESIGNED versions is very easy, just open the menu of the application and select 'Pro' item. Every layout change, the menu item will be changing its name to the next layout identifier.
Menu screen

Where to load?

You can download the latest reseased APK through the link.
Also you can visit my Google Folder related to the "Pirates" game.

Redesigned version of the paper board game

Also I found very interesting project developed by entusiasts from one Russian board game forum, they have totaly reworked and redesigned game components and even made some improvements in game process.
Redesigned map

Donation

If you like the software you can make some donation to the author
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Dice for the "Pirates" board game (the board game was developed by Vladimyr Golitsyn in 1934)

License:Apache License 2.0


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