Project:Open Laser Tag: Difference between revisions
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I want to make gear that is easy as writing an xml file and uploading it to the packs to totally change the game play, to make adding a gps module, or heads up display just an api away from being part of the fun. | I want to make gear that is easy as writing an xml file and uploading it to the packs to totally change the game play, to make adding a gps module, or heads up display just an api away from being part of the fun. | ||
* a lot of the personalilty stuff can be implemented by pushing out gamemodes to android devices on the guns (either OTA or wifi) | * a lot of the personalilty stuff can be implemented by pushing out gamemodes to android devices on the guns (either OTA or wifi) | ||
The big idea that I had was to make the guns/sensors effectively just IO devices for android/ios phones. Once a phone can register hits/shots we can start pushing those into custom rulesets and registering them on some central game server. Given that most android phones are gps/compass/bluetooth/internet enabled there is a lot we could do with them. | |||
It also gets kinda neat when people that want to play install the app on their phone and can show off stats from previous games. | |||
i've now got 4 android phones we can use for this (of varying API level and beaten-ness) | |||
==Whats out there?== | ==Whats out there?== | ||
