[projectaon] Re: A responsive web app for the Lone Wolf gamebooks with offline capabilities
- From: Jack Van Zyl <jack.vanzyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Eric Zollman <ericzollman@xxxxxxxxx>, projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:44:58 +0100
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Jack Van Zyl <
jack.vanzyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Haha! I actually think you have a point. I have thought that I should add
> a way to get back to the home view other than the title. The logo or the
> title linking home is a website standard, but not necessarily an app
> convention, and it doesn't exactly jump out at you. And you are right,
> there's no way to get back to your saved games from the new game view
> without clicking/tapping the title or actually creating a new game.
>
> I made an update that adds a cancel button to the new player view, to take
> the user back to the home view (but only if the user has saved games, or
> the home view will redirect to the new game view and then... endless loop).
>
> It would be great to get it running on iPad and Kindle. I've been battling
> with PhoneGap. I haven't managed to get the offline application caching to
> work yet in Android or iOS, but I'm still looking into it. Thanks for the
> feedback, glad you like it!
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Eric Zollman <ericzollman@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Jack,
>>
>> Congrats on the new job! I think it's awesome that your work on the
>> Project Aon site helped you land it too. Thats just uber-cool. BTW, I was
>> playing around with your app and just had one observation to make. It's
>> kind of tricky to load a game after you have left the web page and came
>> back. My first time around I pressed the Back button on the browser instead
>> of clicking Game->Story to get back from the action chart to the section I
>> was currently playing. This took me to the New Player page (which is cool
>> cause it prevents cheating to some degree). I entered the exact same
>> username as the first time and it started a whole new game. Second time I
>> just closed the browser and then came back, to see if the data had saved,
>> and got the same result... Each time it didn't occur to me to click on
>> Game->Quit Game because I wasn't in a game. Or didn't feel like it, since I
>> hadn't clicked the Start Game button yet again. I searched around for a
>> Load button for a few moments and almost shot out an email to ask you how
>> to load my game. But this last time instead of closing my browser I clicked
>> the Quit Game button and found my three previous saves. All of them loaded
>> just fine. ;-)
>>
>> Has anybody else mentioned this before, or am I just thick today? Anyway
>> I thought it might be a good idea to add a Load Game button on the New
>> Player page
>> (http://lonewolfadventures.**projectaon.org/#newplayer<http://lonewolfadventures.projectaon.org/#newplayer>)?
>> Then if other players close their browser, hit the back button or encounter
>> a crash of some kind that forces the browser to close without actually
>> "quiting" the current game there will be a direct and obvious route back to
>> their game.
>>
>> Other than that I really enjoy the work. The sleek design, the book /
>> action chart integration and the navigation style in general seems like it
>> would play very well on an iPad or a Kindle. Great Work!
>>
>> -Eric Zollman
>>
>> P.S. Holy-Fucking-Shit! Never-mind. Just forget this whole email. I AM
>> being thick today! Before sending this email I went back to my browser one
>> more time and almost instantly noticed that the title on the New Player
>> page is a direct link to the Home page (http://lonewolfadventures.**
>> projectaon.org/#home <http://lonewolfadventures.projectaon.org/#home>)
>> which of course allows you to easily load a game or start a new one! I need
>> a nap or something. I almost didn't even send this email, but thought you
>> guys might at least get a laugh out of my blundering. LOL I think I'm just
>> gonna watch TV for the rest of the day. My hands shouldn't even be on a
>> keyboard right now...
>>
>>
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