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Mahjong Forests... Discover the most beautiful Mahjong game ever created! A terrible curse has befallen the peaceful forest kingdom of Sylvannia. Use your quick wits and expert matching skills to restore peace and harmony in this epic quest!
Features:
Features:
- Gorgeous artwork throughout
- A sumptuous, relaxing soundtrack
- 55 increasingly difficult hand-crafted levels
- Every level has at least one possible solution
What's New
Version 1.8.7:
- Fixed a bug where sometimes the save file was getting corrupted.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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Mahjong Forests... Discover the most beautiful Mahjong game ever created! A terrible curse has befallen the peaceful forest kingdom of Sylvannia. Use your quick wits and expert matching skills to restore peace and harmony in this epic quest!
Features:
Features:
- Gorgeous artwork throughout
- A sumptuous, relaxing soundtrack
- 55 increasingly difficult hand-crafted levels
- Every level has at least one possible solution
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I had contacted the developer about this and was so hoping that this update was going to fix this.
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I just released a new version, 1.6, which addresses the tile selection issues. There is now a subtle click sound and the tile turns a pale green when selected. I agree that more UI feedback is nice.
As far as the mouse speed being too fast, I'm not controlling that in any way. I'll see if there's anything I can do about it.
And to AJCook, I certainly didn't mean to deceive anybody. I realize this type of game is based on Activision's Shanghai game - It was one of my favorite games as a kid. I can't even count how many times I've played that turtle level!
I took the Mahjong part of the name from Mahjong Solitaire, not the traditional game. I apologize for the confusion regarding the title, I didn't mean to mislead anybody! I made this game for my mom, who loves these types of Mahjong Solitaire games. (btw, she thinks this is how people play real Mahjong... One day I'll teach her how to play the original game. For now, it was a big enough step teaching her how to use the computer!)
Anyway, thanks again!
Joe
http://www.firemaplegames.com
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Corpsecorps reviewed on 11 Jun 2008
I don't quite understand the Chinese influence in the icon since the music, tiles, and plot are decidedly UN-Chinese.
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Having gotten those minor gripes out of my system, let me say the graphics and sound are of exceptional quality, right down to the Fire Maple logo screen (cool name btw).
This game has such a relaxing atmosphere it should not be played by the sleepy.
I had minor complaints with the UI. The mouse moved a bit faster than i like, so i would have to adjust it in prefs or a mouse driver to feel comfortable. The subtlety of picking tiles - a slight coloration and no sound effect - was a slightly annoying, too.
While the tiles are gorgeous and visually have a nice balance between similarity and difference there's only the one style.
Game play progresses very nicely due (i assume) to the hand made levels. I don't know if that extends to tile placement, or whether that's random, but the beginning puzzles were exceptionally easy.
Very nicely done, overall, but i would have been VASTLY more impressed, were this level of attention to detail applied to an application that actually PLAYED Mahjong, as those are scarce.
If you like this game, you should really try Runes of Avalon 2 as well. The atmosphere, game play, advancement screen, and quality were so similar, i at first thought they must be released by the same people.
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sierrasue reviewed on 03 Jun 2008
I just play to relax, not competitively.
The music is nice but I turned it way down as it can get repetitive .. after a few hours!
This is a visually exquisite game!
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Is the developer dishonest, or does he really not know what Mahjongg is?
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If you need to find out what mahjongg is, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjongg.
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The twist of having a plot has already been done beautifully (and informatively) by Ambrosia Software with "Aki Mahjong Solitaire", and also, i believe, in Luxor Mahjong (chinese + egyptian?)
Once upon a time, most of these solitaire games were referred to as "Shang Hai", which was nice as it let people know right away that it WASN"T the actual Chinese poker-like game.
With the tiles not even bearing any resemblance to the original chinese ones, this really has no relationship to that game whatsoever.
I've only been able to locate 4 versions of real Mahjong for Mac in decades. One was pretty good but never updated for OS 9 or X. The second was an obscure Java-based cross-platform version with minimal graphics.
I had high hopes for Mah Jong Tradition, but the ui is AWFUL and it drains virtually all the intricacy and variation from the Chinese version. It even compares UNfavorably with the so-so rules established by the American Mah Jongg Association, leaving a simplified children-only version.
The last is Damejong, which until recently was only available in Chinese and may yet shape up to be something exceptional.
This tile matching solitaire business really has no business being referred to as Mah Jong at all.
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Foobar1969 rated on 04 Feb 2011
S.nitzpon rated on 13 Jan 2011