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Old 16th September 2008, 05:03 AM   #1 (permalink)
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iPhone App - Power Card Viewer

I'm a *huge* fan of the fan created printable power cards, but printing these things out is:

* fairly expensive if you do decent card stock.
* makes baby bunnies cry because you're chopping down their trees.

The iPhone is almost a perfect match for the size of these power cards, so I've been working on an iPhone application for searching and displaying power card stats.

Anyone interested?

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Old 16th September 2008, 05:28 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Yeah, sounds cool
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Old 16th September 2008, 05:39 AM   #3 (permalink)
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i would be very interested.
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Old 16th September 2008, 05:43 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Man, between this and Mach Dice, it's time I got an iPhone
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Wow, yeah! Totally interested.
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Old 16th September 2008, 12:24 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Old 16th September 2008, 12:55 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Friend just got his iphone, so it would be good.

You should also be able to view your powers in a condensed view and also touch the powers once you use them so they turn red or disappear until the powers are reset)
You would need a short rest and extended rest reset. Maybe healing surges can be incorporated as well and magic items

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question: copyright issues?
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Chalk me up as interested too.
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Nice! I've been thinking about this very thing as an excuse to learn how to develop for the iPhone.
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Old 18th September 2008, 12:24 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I like Zlorf's idea, and would add that it might be nice to have an option of entering some basic stats (but not manditory) and then filling in some of the data, so you would see +5 vs AC rather than Str vs AC.

other than copyright issues, i would worry about power drain due to keeping the phone on all the time, and the annoyance of turning it on every few min, after it's auto-off'd, to check something.

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Old 22nd September 2008, 06:19 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Thank you all for your responses. I wanted to post a follow up and let you all know that things are progressing well.

It's definitely still early, but you can check out the inprogress work at:
DnD 4e Power Cards Index

If any developers are interested, all of the code is open source and contributions would be appreciated!
wireframe's power-card-viewer at master — GitHub
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Old 22nd September 2008, 07:14 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Nice! Works great so far.
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awesome, please continue
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This is awesome. So you just go to the webpage to use it, or is this an actual application that you can download somewhere?
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Old 22nd September 2008, 09:31 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Traveon,
It's a plain old webapp. It's intended for use with an iPhone, but it works just fine with any web browser.

A *native* iPhone app may be unique, but it's not something I'm interested in at this time.
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I can't speak for the developer, of course, but the webpage is a preview for the iPhone app. For an iPhone app to be made available, it must be approved by Apple first.
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Thanks, I got it now. I put a direct link to it on my iPhone just a moment ago. It works great. Thanks for all the hard work, it's very nice looking as well.
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Ah, clearly I misunderstood the intentions of the developer. Still, it's very cool and useful!
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Old 22nd September 2008, 10:58 PM   #20 (permalink)
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this is awsome! now i just need to find a web based character sheet (or make my own web character page) that's formatted for the iphone...
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