List of simple app ideas

ā˜Žļø Ringo (MAKERphone) šŸ Games & Apps - Python
#1

These are a few apps I plan on learning to make specifically for the makerphone.
*Synthesizer utilizing DTMF tones
*Text-based adventure game, something akin to Zork
*Notepad/note-saving/storing application
*Ebook reader/library

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#2

@Agnosis sounds cool and if you manage to polish them enough, we can include them on every makerphoneā€™s SD card (if youā€™d be ok with that, of course)

#3

Iā€™d love that- when I make progress, Iā€™ll update here, thanks!

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#4

Awesome! Keep me posted

#5

The text adventure game could be less like zork and more a choose your own adventure game with a few options. That would be pretty easy, since there are pc programs to help script them out.

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#6

Regarding text adventures, the most serious problem is that on the Ringo, entering text is tedious at best.

Secondly, not a lot of text fits on the display, even at the smallest font size, so some implementation of a scrollable display might be necessary unless the game was really simple.

Otherwise, it would probably be fairly easy to port frotz or some other z-machine emulator in order to run Infocom text adventures, at least the 24 version 3 games which require only text output and a version 3 emulator. The game (data) files for these are readily available* and could be accessed from the SD card.

*You write/port the Z-Machine emulator and Iā€™ll supply the 24 game files: Ballyhoo, Cutthroats, Deadline, Enchanter, Hitchhikerā€™s Guide, Hollywood Hijinx, Infidel, Leather Goddesses, Lurking Horror, Moonmist, Planetfall, Plundered Hearts, Seastalker, Sorcerer, Spellbreaker, Starcross, Stationfall, Suspect, Suspended, Wishbringer, Witness, Zork1, Zork2, and Zork3.

#7

I was using Zork for reference, but it would be more of a choose-your-own adventure, atleast insofar as I am familiar with those, yes

#8

Very true, yes! But itā€™d be much more option-based, but with usual ability to revert to old states, kinda like zork with doing opposite command to travel back to earlier point. And also ability to save

#9

are these already on the sd card? if so I wasted my time making an ebook application