Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

Great start!

Three things:

- horizontal (long) direction is the opposite of vertical (short) direction. That is, a vertical tilt does the opposite of a horizontal tilt; it is a "bubble" vertically, but a "weight" horizontally. I think it should be a weight ("fall" down) in both directions.

-Screen blanking! Argh!

- The accelerometer point should be a repeller, not an attractor. This would be more like sheep herding. You can still create attractors by touching the screen, but the floating point should be a sheepdog, that is, a repeller.

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

@RevdKathy, you need to be root first, try this

@rcull, @qole, thanks, I will fix this (any tip how to nicely reset inactivity?)

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

amazing!

cure the only flaw:

upload to extras-devel
99.9% of all testers/users/sheep do not know how to install stuff in this manner, please don't even bother trying to talk them round, ever.

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

hopbeat, not sure in qt
but theres a number of apps now that have a heartbeat signal, i'll try to find the codez

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

RevdKathy,

You need to install rootsh from the app manager,
then type root in a terminal window before you can use the apt-get command.

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

RevdKathy

Looking at your prompt you were not root when you ran apt-get.

Rick

Edit j.s beat me to it :)

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=275097&postcount=9
lists the method i've seen used (the code, not the executable itself)

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

Nope - I'm still stupid. I installed the /.deb file to the same place I put the .tar file.

I installed rootsh (from the repo). And I gained root.

But is when I run the .deb file it says 'file not found'. So I'm in the wrong directory.

I'm on IRC if anyone wants to help me play Bo Peep!

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

OMG!!!! I can haz sheep!!!!


Huge, huge thanks to Hopbeat. Not only did he create this, he spent an age with me in IRC talking me through my first experience of gaining root. What a way to start the New Year!

Thank you, thank you!!! It;s lovely. I shall be playing it all night (my sheep are currently hiding in a corner of the field)

Re: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
 

This is the tried and true attitude that continues to be successful in keeping school children from disadvantaged backgrounds from making progress.