dustin-galgarret
September 11th, 2013, 12:30 AM
I've been working on a new game for Ubuntu Touch (and to be entered in the App Showdown). It's called Word Chain. If you have an Ubuntu Touch phone you can find it in the Dash ready for download. If you don't yet have a device you can download a click package or a zip at the app's website, http://wordchainapp.appspot.com/. I'd love to hear people's thoughts on it :) I've also been trying to make some detailed developer notes at the developer blog, http://wordchainapp.tumblr.com/ on things that I've discovered about building apps for Touch.
I do have a question which I would be interested in forumgoers ideas on. The game contains a built in "challenge": you collect words and then put them together to find a secret message. It was built that way for an interesting reason: the challenge words for everyone are the same, so everyone can work on collecting them together across the whole Ubuntu community. There was an idea that maybe there should be a wiki or something where people can put words they've found. This sounds like a cool idea to me but I don't know how it would be best to do that: should I just create a page on the Ubuntu Wiki? How should I tell people about it? I've asked in a few places. The developer blog is not on Planet Ubuntu which is where lots of people's blogs are. I'd love to hear ideas about how I should do this from people. Maybe there should be a thread here on the forums, or on Google Plus, to collect words?
http://static.tumblr.com/91f61f26d651a524c6ef450e2afc6fea/x0dikou/0HWmsjxhg/tumblr_static_tumblr-wc-header.png
I do have a question which I would be interested in forumgoers ideas on. The game contains a built in "challenge": you collect words and then put them together to find a secret message. It was built that way for an interesting reason: the challenge words for everyone are the same, so everyone can work on collecting them together across the whole Ubuntu community. There was an idea that maybe there should be a wiki or something where people can put words they've found. This sounds like a cool idea to me but I don't know how it would be best to do that: should I just create a page on the Ubuntu Wiki? How should I tell people about it? I've asked in a few places. The developer blog is not on Planet Ubuntu which is where lots of people's blogs are. I'd love to hear ideas about how I should do this from people. Maybe there should be a thread here on the forums, or on Google Plus, to collect words?
http://static.tumblr.com/91f61f26d651a524c6ef450e2afc6fea/x0dikou/0HWmsjxhg/tumblr_static_tumblr-wc-header.png