[projectaon] Re: A responsive web app for the Lone Wolf gamebooks with offline capabilities
- From: P van Zyl <pvanzyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:17:11 +0100
I'm glad to hear that the way I added the license seems in order.
The app currently runs on Google App Engine and has some Python server-side
logic to make it all work. Thanks for thinking of a staff account. I'm not
sure I'll be able to host it on projectaon.org without modifying it quite a
bit. I am planning on open-sourcing the project when it's a little more
complete, and I'll also post an announcement in the forum at that time.
Thanks!
On 14 June 2013 10:39, James Durrant <james.durrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Good to hear from you - always good to see a new project underway.
>
> Displaying of the license seems about right :)
>
> *Jon* - it looks like this project could benefit from being brought
> in-house with a staff account?
>
> *Thomas* - probably ditto for a forum?
>
> I am not aware of a definitive list of tags, as they can change when the
> need arises - Jon/Simon may be able to help out there though.
>
> All the best,
>
> James
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:35:44 +0100
> Subject: [projectaon] A responsive web app for the Lone Wolf gamebooks
> with offline capabilities
> From: pvanzyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I stumbled on Project Aon a while back, and I've been working on a web
> interface for the Lone Wolf gamebooks that would be responsive, i.e. work
> on mobiles, tablets and desktops, and that would be available when not
> connected to the internet.
>
> I hope the mailing list is the right place to mention this. I actually
> have a question about the XML further down. Apologies in advance if I'm
> asking in the wrong place.
>
> Here is a sneak peak at the web app, still a work in progress:
> http://lonewolf.liquidstateltd.com/
>
> It contains the content of the first 8 books, and only uses illustrations
> by Gary Chalk. I wanted to showcase the illustrations, so I used some of
> these in the user interface, but only after a user agrees to the terms. The
> home view, for example, uses an image of a key as icon to load an existing
> game, a small illustration from the first book. Other than that, the only
> real design element is the font, Fell Great Primer. Details on the font can
> be found here:
> http://iginomarini.com/fell/the-revival-fonts/
>
> The app uses HTML5's application cache to store content on a user's
> computer or handheld device, making offline play possible. Here's the
> technical details in case you're interested:
>
> - All resources to be downloaded to a users's offline application
> cache is listed in a cache manifest file.
> - Initially only the base application files (the HTML, JavaScript and
> CSS files etc.) are included in the manifest.
> - Once the user agrees to the terms of the Project Aon License, a
> cookie is set. The next time the app requests the manifest, the cookie is
> sent along with the request, and when the server receives a request for the
> manifest along with the cookie indicating that the user has agreed to the
> terms, the manifest file is updated server-side to include resource files
> from projectaon.org. So when the user accepts the terms and the
> download view is displayed, the app requests the manifest with the cookie
> and the manifest now includes references to projectoan.org, and the
> user's browser starts downloading all the files.
> - The download is pretty quick over broadband but can take a couple of
> minutes over 3G. A user can skip the download and continue to set up a
> player and start a game if they're connected to the internet. Depending on
> the browser used, the resources will continue to download in the
> background. A user can check the status of the download by following the
> "Download status" link in the app footer. The status indicator is not
> entirely accurate: There is no way to know how many files have already been
> downloaded, so there may actually be resources already downloaded that are
> not included in the count. However the app can detect when all resources
> have been downloaded completely and the indicator is updated accordingly
> when that happens.
> - This has been tested in Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer 10 on
> the desktop (IE 9 or previous versions does not support HTML5 application
> cache), and in iOS Safari and iOS Chrome, and Android Browser and Android
> Chrome. There is an issue in Firefox that I haven't managed to resolve yet.
>
> This is a JavaScript web app, so most everything runs in the user's
> browser or on their device (aside from the offline application cache
> manifest file update described earlier, that happens server-side). The app
> uses Backbone.js <http://backbonejs.org/> and
> RequireJS<http://requirejs.org/>for structure and
> Foundation <http://foundation.zurb.com/> for layout.
>
> There's still a lot on my list of things to do. Filling out the action
> chart, combat, and selecting a number from the random number table, is all
> currently done manually by the user. I don't want to over-automate it as I
> want to keep the experience as close to the original gamebooks as possible,
> but I still want to have the user's rank update automatically when they
> complete an adventure, for example.
>
> Currently I'm ironing out a couple of issues, and I have a question
> please: I noticed an unusual tag in the XML for sections, a <poetry> tag
> (book 4 section 57, found here
> http://projectaon.org/data/trunk/en/xml/04tcod.xml), and because it's
> unexpected it's not included in the app currently. Right now, the app finds
> all immediate child elements of <section><data>... and displays it if it's
> one of the following:
>
> - p: Displays a paragraph
> - ul: Displays a list
> - li: Displays a list
> - ol: Displays a list (These are all standard HTML tags up to this
> point)
> - choice: Gives the user the option to make a choice
> - illustration: Displays an illustration
> - combat: Displays an enemy title and their Endurance Points and
> Combat Skill.
>
> I am going to update the app to display <poetry> sections, and to display
> quotes (another little bug at the moment), but wanted to find out if
> there's a definitive list of tags, specifically for the section content
> (not so much for the front matter etc.)?
>
> Thanks
> Petrus
>
>
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