Thread: Accelerometer game proposal: sheepdog
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2010-02-01 , 12:05
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Originally Posted by aspidites View Post
I'd imagine they'd have a few wardens from the crazy bin come along as well.

"He was barking at his phone, doc!"

I do like the whistle idea though. Would be more interesting than barking, assuming there was a varied enough command set.

I just hope Nintendo doesn't try to file another file suit siting Nintendogs copyright infringement ;-)
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Hi!

I just thought of possible solution/help if some sort of a whistling function would be wanted.
There is an app for maemo called tuner and it registers sound frequencies.
Tuner has been made by Joseph Torra and Jari Tenhunen.
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/tuner/

There might be some ready string of code that could possibly be implemented quite easily for sheep-dog.
For example a whistle could be a trigger that might amplify/boost some attribute of the dog like make it move faster for 5 seconds or have larger effect raduis or what ever... this feature could be limited according to level or difficulty and have different number of uses per level or difficulty.
And just to make it as complicated as possible () there could be different whistling triggeres like 1 long whistle would make the dog faster for 5 seconds, 2 short whistles would make it bark couple of times to make the sheep gather into tighter pack... or what ever you can think of.

Just some thoughts.

Thanks for this project!
It's a grat example of what a this community can do!
Last edited by ezcola; 2010-02-01 at 12:21. Reason: added content
 

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