Very well done. Just because the primary purpose of an app is relatively simple, doesn't mean it can't be made to look beautiful and have well thought out UI elements. A lot of devs could take more than a few lessons from your creation. I'll be adding it to my iPhone and iPad ASAP.
Looks very polished and fun to use. One question, though-- it looks like you can only keep track of one game at a time, is that correct? I have ongoing games with a few different groups of friends and family members, I'm dreaming of an app that would make it easy to keep track of them all.
SLICK! I'm about to download it, so I don't know if you have it do this or not... Can you prevent the device from going to sleep for the duration of your game?
I think it looks great, and it seems really intuitive... If I had to suggest anything I would say you could also have the name rectangles vertically scale to match the vertical height you define with the outer grey boxes, floating the names in the center of the rectangle.
@ReadeMoore Hmm, yeah I'm not sure if it'll sleep or not, it might if you don't touch it for a while. Interesting name box suggestion, I'll have to try that out! :)
@dsyu nope, I didn't want to complicate it. I figure most people can either just choose whatever letter they want, or they can even make their name blank and just go by the colour.
Love the interaction. The grey settings buttons feel way too big for the UI, though! That bugs me a lot but pretty much in love with everything else. Especially love all the transitions!
@wemayfreeze yeah the grey buttons are that big to make the center area a square, because originally I was planning on making it work in multiple rotations, so the gray would have made more sense then, hah.
So fun. Awesome work. Only UX criticism would be the choice for the sound icon. The current icon is used for signal strength almost universally (albeit sideways).
1. Since it's in air, it shouldn't be too hard to get it on android. Are you looking to put it on there?
2. I think the one thing it's missing would be an option to change the increment by which scores are changed. Many games use only increments of 5, etc.
3. Any chance of this going up on github opensource? I'd loove to take a look inside this baby. Totally understand if that's not an option though.
@ElectricGrandpa wow nice performance! which version of AIR did you use? were you using CS5 or FlashBuilder? and what sort of software did you use to produce the SFX? sorry, hope you don't mind with all of these questions, just wanted to learn, thanks!
This looks really great, downloading for iPhone right now. You should consider adding a timer/countdown that is something that my family and I always turn to when playing games.
Shouldn't you be using the native iOS convention when deleting list items? Ie. swipe left on an item to bring up a delete button? I would never have been able to guess the double tap.
@bjzaba yep, good point, but to be honest, the bulk delete was mostly an easter egg for me to use while testing, there's no reason a "real user" would need to delete a bunch of players all at once.
@ElectricGrandpa It's more the fact that I would immediately try that if I wanted to delete somebody as opposed to going through the menu as it's the default behaviour of most list views on iOS. It's always a little jarring when I come across apps that haven't implemented it. Small nitpick, but seeing as the rest of the app is so great I think it deserves that attention to detail.
@ElectricGrandpa And I'll add that I almost never use the swipe delete for bulk actions - just for deleting one or two items. It's just a common convention on iOS like command+C or command+V.
Just had an idea whilst watching it again - how about letting people "record" a musical tune with the Easter Egg, and their "jingle" gets played when they take first place. Would be very cute.
Incredible app. However, I'm curious why you chose to develop on the Playbook instead of a device like the iPad that has 40 million users. I would have bought it if the was on the Apple App Store.
Very impressive attention to detail and fluidity. A very basic / simple app with none of the polish could probably be coded up by an experienced dev in a few hours... Curious as to how much longer it took to take this from prototype to "WOW"?
@psimpson009 You're absolutely correct. I created an early version of this (with basically the same features) in an hour *while* my friends were playing a game. On the other hand, creating this and getting it polished took almost two full weeks. It's crazy how long polishing and tweaking takes.
This is BEAUTIFUL! Any chance there's an iOS version? Or does anyone know of something similar for the iPhone? I've tried a bunch on the app store, but none even come close to how awesome this is.
this is great! good job on dev
omar300i 3 days ago
amazing sounds and animations, good job!
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tamarraojbeipl47S 5 days ago
and the animations are just perfect!
arabicdes 5 days ago
What an amazing yet simple UX-oriented app!
arabicdes 5 days ago
Where'd you get the sound effects? Really great, suits the app great.
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Can you turn off the auto sorting? Some games score by turn and it might be easier to track players sequentially rather than by who has the lead...
MacDudeUT 6 days ago
The one thing I'd ask for is the ability to sort by score OR name. Otherwise, mighty fine.
bibulb 1 week ago
Nice and simple.
Can't really complain since free is free but one suggestion I'd have is having separate banks for different games. Otherwise, nicely done.
Inkinator 1 week ago
Very well done. Just because the primary purpose of an app is relatively simple, doesn't mean it can't be made to look beautiful and have well thought out UI elements. A lot of devs could take more than a few lessons from your creation. I'll be adding it to my iPhone and iPad ASAP.
luvmakingfunofu 1 week ago
It sounds like you're using a sound from the game Trainyard when the app starts. I hope it's licensed for you to do this... ?
youngnam 1 week ago
@youngnam Oh! are you actually Matt Rix? disregard my silliness... thanks for making awesome apps!
youngnam 1 week ago
@youngnam hah, yep :) I made this in a rush, so I reused a lot of the sounds from Trainyard :D
ElectricGrandpa 1 week ago
Looks very polished and fun to use. One question, though-- it looks like you can only keep track of one game at a time, is that correct? I have ongoing games with a few different groups of friends and family members, I'm dreaming of an app that would make it easy to keep track of them all.
MVHK100 1 week ago
@MVHK100 yeah, only one game at a time unfortunately, just to keep things super simple.
ElectricGrandpa 1 week ago
Also... A countdown timer would be a great addition.
ReadeMoore 1 week ago
SLICK! I'm about to download it, so I don't know if you have it do this or not... Can you prevent the device from going to sleep for the duration of your game?
I think it looks great, and it seems really intuitive... If I had to suggest anything I would say you could also have the name rectangles vertically scale to match the vertical height you define with the outer grey boxes, floating the names in the center of the rectangle.
ReadeMoore 1 week ago
@ReadeMoore Hmm, yeah I'm not sure if it'll sleep or not, it might if you don't touch it for a while. Interesting name box suggestion, I'll have to try that out! :)
ElectricGrandpa 1 week ago
Nice work. But does this have internationalization support? For folks without English names?
dsyu 1 week ago
@dsyu nope, I didn't want to complicate it. I figure most people can either just choose whatever letter they want, or they can even make their name blank and just go by the colour.
ElectricGrandpa 1 week ago
Love the interaction. The grey settings buttons feel way too big for the UI, though! That bugs me a lot but pretty much in love with everything else. Especially love all the transitions!
wemayfreeze 1 week ago
@wemayfreeze yeah the grey buttons are that big to make the center area a square, because originally I was planning on making it work in multiple rotations, so the gray would have made more sense then, hah.
ElectricGrandpa 1 week ago
Great work, mate. I'd wish my bathroom mirror looked like that so I could review my day while brushing my teeth / shaving...
weisjohn07 1 week ago
That's beautiful... Any chance of seeing this on Android? I was looking on the market the other day and the current scorekeeper apps are useless.
BeachedWhale129 2 weeks ago
@BeachedWhale129 yeah that's definitely possible... just need someone from Google to send me a dev device to test it on ;)
ElectricGrandpa 2 weeks ago
@ElectricGrandpa so any idea of an ETA?
BeachedWhale129 2 weeks ago
@BeachedWhale129 I dunno... probably a couple days after I get an Android device, but I don't have any clue when that'll be.
ElectricGrandpa 2 weeks ago
this is just amazing. has beautiful UI. congratulations. really great job. keep up the great work. a shout from brazilian fan. (=
yurigoytacaz 3 weeks ago
So fun. Awesome work. Only UX criticism would be the choice for the sound icon. The current icon is used for signal strength almost universally (albeit sideways).
NICCAI 1 month ago 8
@NICCAI Hah, yeah I got a bit lazy on that one. I've been meaning to change it but haven't got around to it.
ElectricGrandpa 1 month ago
@ElectricGrandpa no worries - thanks for the amazing app.
NICCAI 1 month ago
I, too, would love to see this on Android, even for a price.
DJDopeGhoti 1 month ago
Since you build it in AIR, are you planning to release it for Android?
robhuddles 1 month ago
Awesome App!!! Excellent UX, excellent UI and FX!! Congrats!!
jackfreak22 1 month ago
+1 for an Android port.
leggett 1 month ago
When you hold down the "+" button to increment rapidly, it should hold for two or three clicks at certain intervals (say, at +5 or +10 points).
mattlycra 1 month ago
@mattlycra that's a great idea
ElectricGrandpa 1 month ago
Nice UI decisions. I like the delayed sort feature. Found you from an @jasonfried tweet.
joewardpr 1 month ago
Nice work!
plzfollow 1 month ago
Like it. Would be good if it included a timer too for time-limited turn-based games.
crissxross 1 month ago
+1 for android port since android supports AIR apps
brunomolteni 1 month ago
this is great!!
BeastlyRig 1 month ago
A few questions.
1. Since it's in air, it shouldn't be too hard to get it on android. Are you looking to put it on there?
2. I think the one thing it's missing would be an option to change the increment by which scores are changed. Many games use only increments of 5, etc.
3. Any chance of this going up on github opensource? I'd loove to take a look inside this baby. Totally understand if that's not an option though.
moveaway00 1 month ago
very nice! what kind of platform did you build it from? (cocoa/air/etc?) and where did you get the SFX from its awesome!
bebensiganteng 1 month ago
@bebensiganteng SFX are made custom, it's made with Adobe AIR (ie. AS3/Flash)
ElectricGrandpa 1 month ago
@ElectricGrandpa wow nice performance! which version of AIR did you use? were you using CS5 or FlashBuilder? and what sort of software did you use to produce the SFX? sorry, hope you don't mind with all of these questions, just wanted to learn, thanks!
bebensiganteng 1 month ago
awesome! ironically, it looks most like a wp7 app.
idog63 1 month ago
Sound icon looks more like a Wifi symbol... otherwise, looks like an awesome app, good work.
JPizzle1122 1 month ago
This is awesome!
mattjsrules 1 month ago
Sweet lord, those are some beautiful animations!
bayXSonic 1 month ago
It's beautiful. I want all my apps to behave with that fluidity.
BeachedWhale129 1 month ago
wonderful
yaliag 1 month ago
This looks really great, downloading for iPhone right now. You should consider adding a timer/countdown that is something that my family and I always turn to when playing games.
BuildingtheStation 1 month ago
Shouldn't you be using the native iOS convention when deleting list items? Ie. swipe left on an item to bring up a delete button? I would never have been able to guess the double tap.
Awesome app though.
bjzaba 1 month ago
@bjzaba yep, good point, but to be honest, the bulk delete was mostly an easter egg for me to use while testing, there's no reason a "real user" would need to delete a bunch of players all at once.
ElectricGrandpa 1 month ago
@ElectricGrandpa It's more the fact that I would immediately try that if I wanted to delete somebody as opposed to going through the menu as it's the default behaviour of most list views on iOS. It's always a little jarring when I come across apps that haven't implemented it. Small nitpick, but seeing as the rest of the app is so great I think it deserves that attention to detail.
bjzaba 1 month ago
@ElectricGrandpa And I'll add that I almost never use the swipe delete for bulk actions - just for deleting one or two items. It's just a common convention on iOS like command+C or command+V.
bjzaba 1 month ago
This is so badass!
iamkeir 1 month ago
That is the most beautiful UI I've seen in some time. Great work. You should be charging for it!!
adrianwills 1 month ago
Just had an idea whilst watching it again - how about letting people "record" a musical tune with the Easter Egg, and their "jingle" gets played when they take first place. Would be very cute.
BernhardHofmann 1 month ago
@BernhardHofmann very cool idea!
ElectricGrandpa 1 month ago
Dude. Seriously. I am soooo impressed. That is just jaw dropping gorgeous, intuitive, fun, everything stunning.
BernhardHofmann 1 month ago
Oh, just read the other comments. I'm gonna get this for the iPad right now.
Vinodnj1978 1 month ago
Incredible app. However, I'm curious why you chose to develop on the Playbook instead of a device like the iPad that has 40 million users. I would have bought it if the was on the Apple App Store.
Vinodnj1978 1 month ago
@Vinodnj1978 The poster just stated that you can download this for iOS now. Google for App Store Scorekeeper xl
commadelimited 1 month ago
I have no use for this but its still amazing design! Bravo
913WildCat 1 month ago
Well done! I am very impressed!
The fact this is a PlayBook App becomes a detail among this interface so amazing.
Congratulations and thanks for sharing :)
gabrielprodrigues 1 month ago
Turns out "Yondy" is a name.
virjog95 1 month ago
thats amazing ui
only thing i thought was off - the sound icon made me think of wifi. only when you said its sound on/off i made a connection to a speaker.
antonkudin 1 month ago
thanks for making this buddy, i love it
a1manarme 2 months ago
Only on Playbook? Not iPad?
MGuniverse 5 months ago 3
@MGuniverse on iPad very soon.
ElectricGrandpa 5 months ago 3
@ElectricGrandpa Awesome! :D
MGuniverse 5 months ago
@MGuniverse FYI it's out on iPad now.
ElectricGrandpa 1 month ago 4
@ElectricGrandpa I bought it when it first came out for iPad months ago. :D
MGuniverse 1 month ago
@ElectricGrandpa I would cry tears of joy if you could be bother to make it on Android as well ;)
seanmonstarful 1 month ago
Very impressive attention to detail and fluidity. A very basic / simple app with none of the polish could probably be coded up by an experienced dev in a few hours... Curious as to how much longer it took to take this from prototype to "WOW"?
psimpson009 9 months ago 3
@psimpson009 You're absolutely correct. I created an early version of this (with basically the same features) in an hour *while* my friends were playing a game. On the other hand, creating this and getting it polished took almost two full weeks. It's crazy how long polishing and tweaking takes.
ElectricGrandpa 9 months ago 11
I'm totally downloading this.
thedonald19 9 months ago
VERY cool. Love the UI.
bookaliciouspam 9 months ago
wow really great work! very sweet UI, something I'd expect from a paid, or "official" app. If I ever get a playbook I'll dl this!
majorgoolsby 9 months ago
This is BEAUTIFUL! Any chance there's an iOS version? Or does anyone know of something similar for the iPhone? I've tried a bunch on the app store, but none even come close to how awesome this is.
jokeruger 10 months ago
Wow, that is nice. Very good job.
Logan0006 10 months ago
Please tell me you've got more apps in the pipeline, this is a brilliant UI.
MrSceptic101 10 months ago
wow man -- fantastic job with the UI and flow -- love it!
joynalcom 10 months ago
Lovely UI! :)
Really good job!
MaxStalker2 10 months ago
Very well thought out. Kudos.
willc2 10 months ago
That is a really nice UI
hekar 10 months ago
Very nice! A simple idea implemented beautifully.
StreamingColour 10 months ago
Very sensible and clean UI. I've been looking for something like this for my iPhone since I got it. Add a timer mode and you've got a premium app.
thesporkwithin 10 months ago
Impressive!!
rwenderlich 10 months ago