App-y Days: KniZia On The iPhone

The App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch will soon be offering a new bit of board game action. It’s Reiner Knizia’s Robot Master.

For those who don’t know, Reiner Knizia is one of the hottest names in board game design. He was always destined to be a board game designer, his name being worth a massive number of points in Scrabble.

Robot Master is a game of “strategical placement”. Knowing Knizia’s stuff as I do, it’ll be a clever abstract affair with a robot theme just flung on top to make it more palatable.

Here’s a couple of screenies:

And you can follow the man behind the iPhone version on Twitter here.

By the way, I’m getting an iPhone for my birthday. Which is on the 29th of July, for your reference.

I’m just saying! It’s not like I’m linking to my Amazon wishlist or anything!