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List:       moblin-dev
Subject:    [Moblin Dev] YourMove India Contest, ideas
From:       derek.speed () intel ! com (Speed, Derek)
Date:       2008-04-29 12:26:09
Message-ID: 3CB68B42528E674CA431F92259C519594A8517 () azsmsx421 ! amr ! corp ! intel ! com
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Aditya,

Thank you for your interest in the YourMove India contest.

Please see my comments below.

Thanks,
Derek

Aditya Vishwakarma wrote:
> Hi,
> I am Aditya, a 2nd year IT student at NSIT, delhi , India.
> I have been frequenting the moblin.org since September and hoping to
> contribute to the development scenario in some way. Naturally the
> YourMove India contest has gotten me excited.
> http://moblin.org/contest_india.php
> 
> However, I am unable to understand as to exactly what sort of
> documentation is needed. I would be nice if some details can be
> mentioned. 
> 
> Also, the contest site lacks any ideas. It would be nice if the
> community lists some ideas for applications which they think should
> be done by the applicants as those who have been involved with the
> development scenario know the platform best and how it can be
> utilized to max.

I put together a page on the main Moblin.org site with some of my ideas
- see 
http://www.moblin.org/moblin-applications.php and look for the section
at the bottom of the page titled "Developing Applications for Moblin"

Hopefully some of these ideas will jump start your own thinking and you
can come up with even more exciting ideas.
 
> 
> Anyways, I have two ideas for this contest. I hope you all like these
> ideas: 
> 
> 
> 
> 1.       UI for camera / Video capture interface
> 
> 2.       Run-chick-run ( game )
> 
> 
> 
> *1.UI for camera / Videa capture *
> 
> I know cheese is been used as the basis for camera application. It
> has been patched so as to run on target created by moblin Image
> Creator.( http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519548 ) (
> included in latest version, 2.23.1 )
> 
> However, the UI really needs some love. Wire diagrams have been put
> up at the site (http://moblin.org/images/media_photo_screen03.gif ). 
> I believe the interface has been well layed out. I have been using
> cam phones for 2 yrs, and I think that some element positions can be
> better positioned. I enlist my proposed changes here:
> 
> 
> 
> 1)      Effects dropdown -> white balance dropdown.
> 
> White balance ( auto, daylight, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent )
> are more frequently used than Effects. Also, effects can be applied
> to image after being captured.
> 
> I think effects can be integrated into media browser, and if an
> effect is applied to an image, the original as well as the new one
> should be saved. Eg if sepia applied to 001.jpg, then the new image
> can be called 001_sepia.jpg 
> 
> 2)      Photo mode / Video mode should be a toggle
> 
> 3)      Video mode button can be replaced by night mode.
> 
> 4)      Flash on / off toggle can be added next to video mode
> 
> 5)      View grid  -
> 
> This is a really cool feature that I saw in n95 They assists in
> framing photos, adhering to the photographic rule-of-thirds. It is
> used to align subjects and place points of interest on or near the
> lines and their intersecting points makes the photos more
> professional and aesthetic. The rule-of-thirds also applies to
> landscape shots. For example, the sky should take either one third or
> two thirds of the frame, instead of placing the horizon in the center.
> 
> Another button can be added to the bottom row for toggling this. Or
> it can be permanently enabled.
> 
> We can also have sliders for brightness / contrast adjustment too.
> 
> 
> I have been going through the cheese source code for a while and
> understand it's working well. The new version of Cheese has support
> for sending images over flickr, email, and includes quite a lot of
> effects and would be a perfect platform for the image capturing
> application. 
> 
> 

I think these are all great ideas, especially integrating with the
popular photo sharing sites.

My only caution is to balance cool features with ease of use.  We expect
MID users to be relatively novice users so you need to make sure it is
very obvious how to perform the most common tasks they will want to
perform.

The practical problem you will face is that we do not currently have a
driver for the camera on the Samsung Q1 Ultra so it will be hard to test
your code on a real device.  I hope that when the new platforms based on
the Intel Centrino Atom technology (formerly codenamed Menlow) start
shipping soon we will have more driver support including a camera
driver.

> 
> *2.Run-chick-run*
> 
> This is a really cool game I thought of last night. It's similar to
> the reflex based games that used mouse for clicking, testing your
> reflexes. 
> 
> The story is:
> 
> The gates of a chicken farm have been left open. The chickens have
> started running off to the wilderness, where a hungry wolf is eagerly
> waiting their arrival. U as the farmer have to save your chicks!
> 
> The game would basically have a chick to spawn at the left side of
> screen running towards the right, where a horizontal separator would
> mark the end of plains. The wolf here would taunt the player if he
> misses any chick. 
> 
> The player would have to save the chick by touching the screen at the
> exact spot where chick is.
> 
> 
> 
> The game can be extended to multiplayer too, where two players would
> save the chicks. Obviously, more number of chicks would be present
> simultaneously in two player mode. And if both players click the same
> chick, it would result in a clash and death of chick.
> 
> 
> 
> This game can be easily implemented in either python/C. I think using
> python with *pyGtk and cario* libraries would be easier.
> 
> 
> 
> I would love feedbacks on these ideas and whether they are viable
> entries for the YourMove india contest.
> 

I like this idea.  One of the things that disappointed me on the
original Apple iPhone was the lack of built-in games.  Using your MID to
play games during down time is a great way to use it.  Adding the
multiplayer aspect would be a nice touch and help distinguish it from a
simpler phone that might only have cellular capability.

You might also want to think about using 3D graphics in your game.  The
system controller hub in the Intel Centrino Atom platform has hardware
accelerated 3D graphics that can be accessed using OpenGL.  This is
another advanced feature that can help show off the power of the Intel
Centrino Atom platform.

One other thing we are trying to encourage is applications that are of
interest to users in local geographies around the world as well as those
that will appeal to people regardless of their location.  Any ideas you
have that would have special interest to MID users in India are strongly
encouraged for the YourMove India contest.

> 
> Thanking you
> 
> Aditya Vishwakarma

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