Dirty Bomb App?!?1!?1

(HappyGoLucky123) #1

So, lately, I’ve been playing around with App Inventor, and have recently thought of the idea of making an Android App for Dirty Bomb. I’ve bought a license from Google, so I can post apps on the Play Store, and am wondering who I can ask or where I can get permission to publish this app without it being taken down due to copyright reasons?

Thanks so much!
Happy

N.B - The app would say, contain info about new characters and weapons, including descriptions for ability’s and possibly something that you (the public) want in the app.

(ispellcorrectly) #2

You mean, I can look at what’s on the internet, on my phone using an app instead of chrome??!

(HappyGoLucky123) #3

Yeah, I guess. Some people aren’t as rich as others (for example people with only 1 monitor hooked up to their PC or people with bad graphics cards or poor internet) and can’t easily access the internet without leaving the game due to lag. I mean, rich people with say 2 x GTX 970’s may have a right to be curious and wonder what’s the point of this app because they get no problems what so ever with lag!
But anyways, my target audience isn’t for people like you, its for others, who say don’t have a second monitor, but a phone, but can still access these files offline without the use of the internet, meaning it doesn’t disrupt performance when playing Dirty Bomb.

(Nail) #4

data access ain’t cheap either

(ispellcorrectly) #5

[QUOTE=HappyGoLucky123;534831]Yeah, I guess. Some people aren’t as rich as others (for example people with only 1 monitor hooked up to their PC or people with bad graphics cards or poor internet) and can’t easily access the internet without leaving the game due to lag. I mean, rich people with say 2 x GTX 970’s may have a right to be curious and wonder what’s the point of this app because they get no problems what so ever with lag!
But anyways, my target audience isn’t for people like you, its for others, who say don’t have a second monitor, but a phone, but can still access these files offline without the use of the internet, meaning it doesn’t disrupt performance when playing Dirty Bomb.[/QUOTE]

Forgive me for my ignorance, and I am not trying to ‘troll’ here.

Don’t you think this is going to be a waste of your time? I mean, I WOULD probably download it BUT! I would only look at it once.

Besides, steam overlay has a web browser. I don’t understand your ‘second monitor’ statement though, I run Afterburner, steam friends, teamspeak and shadow play on my second monitor, not dirty bomb wiki.

What does it matter who has what graphics card etc.?

In my opinion, the information you want to provide is in the game already? Is it not?

I understand you’re wanting to help people of the community and an app sounds fabulous!
Although, you need to ask yourself, would it be a waste of your time?! Don’t you think if there was a need for an app, they would have made one?!

As Nail said, data access isn’t cheap either. Unless your target audience is the people using WiFi on their phone while on the computer… I don’t even use that. While playing, the last thing I want to do, is look at my phone.

EDIT 2 - http://forums.warchest.com/showthread.php/44747-The-DB-Genome-Project-Release-4-0 - The info is there.

EDIT - Maybe an app which could change your mercs on the fly… THAT would be awesome! I could change them up mid game for the next, saves me rushing while the lobby timer is shouting at me…beep…beep…beep

(shibbyuk) #6

I, for one, still believe native apps offer a much better experience than mobile websites. Once stats make it into the game, I could forsee a nice use of these in an app. Notifications when your friends start playing? Widgets showing friends and stats?

(ispellcorrectly) #7

A stats app will be nice to see!

(shibbyuk) #8

It’s my day job. For the right money, SD, just PM me… :wink:

(Protekt1) #9

Generally speaking, you can probably go ahead and make the app. I assume this is just purely informational and won’t use anything other than a screenshots.

(HappyGoLucky123) #10

But these screenshots and pictures seem to be copyrighted, so when published, Splash Damage have the right to take it down… :confused:

(NoSoup4U) #11

And you say it’s your job? O_o
Webdesign, or app design? Because if it’s webdesign, and you think that apps offer a better experience, you’re clearly not utilizing the frameworks available to make a mobile site indistinguishable from an app. 9/10 times these apps are merely the webkit framework, feeding from some wikia site.
Dedicated apps such as these rarely offer any value if there’s a proper mobile site… Anyway, just my two pence.

As for wanting to know when Friends are playing; Doesn’t the Steam app give a much better picture of that? (since it’s not exclusive to only DB)

The only reason I could see for an app would be for SD to release one, and then only really for the free exposure/marketing (and maybe for the few stats-junkies that want to check their stats by the minute).

(shibbyuk) #12

My job is actually 50% web development (not design) and 50% mobile development. Sure, decent web technologies hosted within apps are good too now the performance is better. It was more a comment on the difference between apps and mobile web, which simply can’t do things like the fore-mentioned push notifications and home screen widgets. Responsive design is great for websites but isn’t, in my opinion, a replacement for the seamless experience provided by apps (native or otherwise).

(Ashog) #13

@OP
I don’t get the argument about being a riach biatch to have 2 monitors. And opposite - I for once, could easily afford a second monitor but this would imho be a stupid waste of money.

Why would I need a 2nd monitor? If I play I am totally submerged into it and don’t want to read any IRC chats and steam ****, which only distracts.
First play, then chat. Also there wouldn’t even be a space on my table for a second monitor since a printer is in the way. So see, it’s just a matter of preference and not money. And vice versa, a secondary monitor for silly chats and “afterburners” would cost 150 Euros at max, which probably is only a couple times of your google subscription lol.

Regarding the app itself, I agree that there would probably be not much use for it since Genome project and other wikis are easily browsable by smartphones nowadays. Unless the app would have a special useful feature which you haven’t come up with yet. But even then I doubt that just browsing wouldn’t negate its usefulness then.

(Phantomchan) #14

I don’t think you would be able to create a decent app as almost every bit of information is already up for grabs in my opinion.

However, if Splashdamage decides to include (more and saved) statistics into the game and maybe create an API for retrieving said information easily, you could make awesome things which could track your overall K/D, Score etc. past X matches and whatnot. Maybe even make something like LoLKing but for Dirty Bomb or something.

(HappyGoLucky123) #15

@Ashog The price of a Google Dev Kit is 25 Euros
And thanks for everyone’s responses, needed to know what the public wanted too I guess xD