I can’t fault companies for capitalizing on digitalizing the public-domain games for the Apple IPad. However, as richly illustrated by the example of game designer Reiner Knizia who advertised for gaming programmers to contact him with proposed apps adaptions of his games, it will probably take the initiative of game designers themselves, if not the game companies which publish their games, to get the ball rolling on digitalizing modern/Euro strategy games for the IPad and presumably for Phillips’ still viable(?) Entertaible.

So, if I had to bet on which game company would be the first to digitalize some, if not all, of its games for the Apple IPad (and/or Phillips’ Entertaible), I would be on Worlds of Wonder which already has online versions of many of its games.

Reiner Knizia has already won the race to be the first game designer to get some of his games digitalized in apps form for the Apple IPhone, and as of this writing and as far as I know, still leads the pack in adapting more of his games to IPhone apps than any other game designer. (Michael Schacht is second thus far.)

So, I believe Reiner Knizia will be the first game designer to have a game apps for Apple’s IPad. (And Schacht will probably follow *if* he doesn’t beat Knizia.)