Checkers and Dice

The warmth of a real wooden board, the sharpness of a self-taught opponent. Play Turkish tavla or international backgammon in stunning 3D, offline and with no ads. Checkers and Dice was written from scratch in Swift and Metal for the Mac and iPad; buy it once and play on both. Board, checkers, dice, cup, room, textures, sounds and oud music are all generated in code, with no ready-made images, models or audio. TWO RULE SETS • Turkish tavla: no doubling cube, and a gammon counts two points; the winner of the previous game opens the next. Switch on the traditional rules if you like: No hit-and-run and Must bear off. • International rules: doubling cube, backgammons and the Crawford rule, with optional Jacoby, beaver, raccoon and automatic doubles. • Matches from 1 to 15 points. With international rules, play an open-ended Session and stop whenever you like. A STRONG OPPONENT • Four…