I’d like to introduce everyone to my son, Kyle, and a project he is working on. Kyle is an 18-year-old homeschool graduate and is studying software development through an intensive hands-on academy / apprenticeship.
Kyle and a few other students are working together on a final project that uses online card games. He needs an audience to interact with and get feedback and is hoping that some of you or your kids might be willing to help. I think it’s great that they are learning aspects of the business like this, other than just programming.
I’ll let Kyle explain more about what he’s doing and what he needs.
(I know some of you may be curious about Kyle’s homeschool experience and the academy, but I know they have limited time and need to stay focused on the project. Remind us to talk about that sometime after the project and we’ll fill you in on the details.)
The other students and I are working on a final project, which is bringing together everything we’ve been learning up to this point.
The concept for the project is a child-safe Web site for playing card games (i.e., no gambling, no ads), with the working title of Good Clean Games. It should allow parents to limit when and how much their children play the games. Also, it needs to save statistics on the games played, such as scores, wins and losses, types of games, etc. The other students and I are each working on our own versions of this concept, and each student has a different assignment for what games and features his version should include.
My assignment is to make a Web site with a card game that has single-player and multi-player modes, and an iOS app for a different card game, also with single-player and multi-player modes. Both card games need to save stats on the Web site.
Something we’ve all been assigned to do is get feedback from users or potential users. In a few days, I’ll be putting what I have so far online so others can get to it and give me feedback, and I’ll post a link to that when I have it. Once I get the Web site up I’ll need feedback on all parts of it.
Another thing we’re supposed to consider is what would be a viable payment model for something like this. We don’t have any plans to charge anything for it at this point (that’s not part of the project), but we’re still supposed to consider it as if we were. We’ve thought of several different possibilities and I’ll ask for feedback on those later.
So that’s what I’m doing. Until I have the Web site up, I won’t need much for feedback, but any you have would be welcome.
So far it only has an incomplete single-player version of 500 Rummy, which I’ll be working on finishing up soon. (I haven’t put any rules on the Web site yet, but you can find some here.)
@Kyle, nothing comes up on the page, just the title Good Clean Games, when I click on your link. Am I correct in assuming we have to sign up for an account to see the game(s)?
I am using an iPad, I have successfully signed up, but the game does not respond when I try to play. It did randomly select a card to discard once, but then it froze again.
Really, really tired & overworked tonight, but I will sign up & take a look at the games within a day or two. If my kids (dd15, ds14, dd13) want to play games on the site, should they have separate accounts, or can we just use one account?
You can just use one account. I may not have enough time to do it, but part of the original idea was that a parent could make an account with multiple users, and be able to set limits on how much each individual user can play.