Party Pal - Standard

Available on iTunes: Party Pal - Standard Party Pal - Free

Party Pal is the new social game for your next get-together! Tons of fun and loads of laughs for everyone, it is a must have for your next party. Want to know what stereotypes those closest to you hold or who is most likely to associate you with an inanimate object?  NOW YOU CAN and you will want to play every time there is a soiree, a sleep over, or a handful of folks having drinks at the house. How well do you know your friends and family?

Party Pal tests how well everyone knows each other through questions such as…

Who is most likely to eat a whole bag of cookies?

What is the worst item to find in your food?
A. a hair
B. a fly
C. a fingernail
D. a band-aid

All the players answer the question and the most popular answer wins! These kinds of quiz questions give a lot of insight into what your friends and family think about each other! For extra fun, feel free to discuss the answers afterward to see why people chose their answers.

Party Pal is recommended for groups of 3 to 10 players and can be played for 5 minutes or until your face hurts from smiling. Party Pal is a game played in the old tradition of gathering friends around the table for game night.

How similar are Party Pal and ImaginIff?

I have had several friends comment that Party Pal is similar to the boardgame ImaginIff.  I’m never sure what to say as I’ve never played the game.  The basis for Party Pal is a game I used to play called the Made Up Game.   The name came from the process of making up 5-10 questions each before starting to play.   Party Pal is the same game, but with pre-canned questions.

In talking with friends more, it sounds like the ImaginIff questions all take the form “ImaginIff <blank> was a type of candy.”  While Party Pal does contain a lot of those kinds of questions, it also has many that take the form “Who would make the best car salesperson?”  This works in Party Pal because it is electronic and all the players names can be entered before playing.

In the end, both games are only as good as their questions, though some good funny friends can make any slightly embarassing question hilarious.

Party Pal End Game?

Party Pal does not have an end game.  Questions will continue to be semi-randomly chosen until the group is done playing.  Here at Tall & Stout we generally play until we get bored, and really don’t care about the score.    For us it’s all about what answers people give and telling stories to support our answers.  However, it would not be hard to end the game when one person gets to 20 points.  They would be declared the “winner” and the game would go back to the home screen.  This changes the game a bit as competition encourages people to choose what they think will be the winnning answer.  Maybe it would be best to include an option to select “competitive” or “friendly” game types.  What do you think?  Leave us feedback.

Party Pal - Standard now available!

Party Pal - Standard edition is now available for purchase on Party Pal - Standard.  To find out more about the game, please click on the iTunes link.  The iTunes store has a description of the game along with some screenshots.  Party Pal is a lot of fun to play with a group of friends and family.  Give it a shot when you get together for Christmas.

If you download the game, please leave a comment on iTunes!

Thanks

Sean

Party Pal: Standard Edition is almost ready!

Rob and I are hard at work getting the standard edition of Party Pal ready.  We’d like to have it up on iTunes well before Christmas.  That means we need to have everything ready to go by Tuesday.  Rob will be on vacation come Thursday, and I’m going up to San Jose on the 16th.  I’m a bit nervous as I won’t have an intel mac to develop on while I’m up there.  That means there’s no room for bugs in this first release!

It’ll be really nice to have a little time away from the game over Christmas.  When we get back, the plan is to get the Family and Party versions of Party Pal ready for iTunes.

-Sean