Hive android app with BGA inside | board game arena app
AlotofyouregularlyaskusifBoardGameArenaisgoingtopublishanapplicationfortabletormobileinthefuture.Well,westilldonotknowifthiswouldbegoodorbadforBGA,butwewouldliketoexploresomethinginthisareasohereitis:theHiveapplicationforAndroid[1]developpedbyJean-BaptisteChaubetisnowconnectedtoBoardGameArenaforonlineplay!Thisapphaseverythingthatyoucanexpectfromanapp:localplay,a(strong)AI,atutorial,andofcourseaninterfacethathasbeendesignedformobile.Butthegreatthingcomparedtootherappsyoucanfindonmobiledevices...
A lot of you regularly ask us if Board Game Arena is going to publish an application for tablet or mobile in the future. Well, we still do not know if this would be good or bad for BGA, but we would like to explore something in this area so here it is: the Hive application for Android[1] developped by Jean-Baptiste Chaubet is now connected to Board Game Arena for online play!
This app has everything that you can expect from an app: local play, a (strong) AI, a tutorial, and of course an interface that has been designed for mobile.
But the great thing compared to other apps you can find on mobile devices is that the Online Play mode is connected to Board Game Arena. It means that you can play Hive online from the app against someone playing on BGA (or the opposite). And this is very good both for BGA and for the app, because of course in this way there are more players available on both ...