Announcing Vocabulicious.
This past Christmas, my brother and I decided to actually do something useful with our extraordinarily expensive educations. Utilizing our skills as programmers and procrastinators to the fullest, we cranked out a scrambled-letter word game in about five days. It was a gift for Mom, but it's starting to get around and people seem to like it, so here it is.
It's called Vocabulicious. It's a standalone Java app, for Mac and Windows. Download it here (536KB, zip). Instructions:
Mac:
- Double-click the zip file to unpack it.
- Follow the instructions in "mac instructions.rtf" in the Vocabulicious directory.
Windows XP:
- Right-click the zip file and click "Extract All..."
- Follow the prompts to unpack the file.
- Open the Vocabulicious folder, and double-click "click_me.bat"
Make sure to let us know what you think! (Especially if stuff doesn't work properly.) We're considering making some additions to it, like a web-based high score board, so if you'd be into that make sure to voice your enthusiasm.
Credits: Word list, back end, and Windows testing: Jeff. Design and front end: Me. Testing: Kate. Sponsored by Mountain Dew.
posted by avixe @ 11:41 PM
6 Comments:
nice work.
to make your app a little easier to run, take a look at http://ovanttasks.sourceforge.net/rat/chapter-N10382.html. also, processing's long-awaited "export to application" would help, although it would still require the external data folder.
Aye, though that would only make it easier for Windows users.
Also, 3 cheers for mountain dew.
I'm still working on your logo.
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oops, must've posted the wrong one. i did find a nice set of ant tasks that do mac and win...i'll see if i can dig it up.
With some work, it looks like it's possible to get this app into a single JAR which you can double-click to run in both XP and OSX. It's pretty neat; I didn't think it was going to be possible. So that'll be the plan for the 1.03 release (coming soon).
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