Big Bang Burger Bar

Hello - while I have been laid up over the last week or so, ill, I downloaded the Apple SDK for the iPhone / iPad and have started to have a little play. It's a good kit, with useful tools and testing software (including a full emulator for each device). Joining the developers network only cost $99 - a one off fee - and allows you to publish appropriate stuff to the AppStore in iTunes.

Being a bit of an Apple geek, and waiting breathlessly for an iPad as well, I thought I would try out doing a game or game aid on the device.

My initial ideas:

1) something like a character generator for d20 OGL / D&D 3.5 - obviously I'd just start off using a limited data set (haven't looked into it in detail yet though). Perhaps also do a Pathfinder RPG one as well (or if it would be allowable do one covering more than one ruleset! I mean if you had one of the devices, were a tech-head and liked lots of different RPG's wouldn't you want one programme that could generate characters for lots of your games at once?? Call of Cthulhu, RQ2, D&D, T&T, B5, Serenity etc....

2) a game along the lines of "Fearsome Floors" - simple movement, randomised creature reactions etc.. Could be any theme really - Cthulhu, Zombies, Creature swarms etc.. Just reeeally simple - probably the best one to start with....

3) PBM mechanic - one player starts, next player takes turn, third and so on. Haven't thought this one through yet.

4) Bluetooth enable "virtual" card game - something along the lines of magic / call of cthulhu etc  played between people on their phones.

Loads of other ideas will on my sick bed.

I wondered if anyone fancies helping out with this little project? You never know, we might accidentally make a hit! We'd definitely learn stuff though and hopefully have some fun doing it...

might i suggest you only find an artist and do everything else yourself? Get enough practice in to make something you like first, then bring in someone to make it look good. - Too many cooks and all that...

Oh yeah, - and i'd play all those apps if i could!

Probably a good idea I suppose.

When I get something working (in outline - not really with art etc..) would you fancy having a go ("playtesting" I suppose you could call it)? I can even lend you the apps loaded on my old iPhone.

Did someone say they needed an artist?

The bait....... the wait....... and the trap sprung!

If you're up for it - you would be more than welcome to do art etc..

I'll hopefully be able to make it over to Burton or a `Thursday or Wednesday soon, and show you the ideas so far - not quite on the coding yet, more at early design stage. The virtual card game has, I think, real potential.

i dont have an i phone or any of that gubbins, but i'd play it and give you feedback if lent an old phone etc.