iPhone App

[Aeolius]

What do you WANT the application to do?

Babysit 8 kids, so I can run my game?

If we re considering the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch market, then I would recommend that the proposed “live character sheet” use Apple’s Game Center app to help coordinate players and their DM in a shared gaming session.

I would also make the app expandable. A third party publisher should be able to plug their races, classes, and so on into the character sheet with ease.

Aside from that, simply supporting existing apps such as MapTool and PCGen would help a great deal in not only running a tabletop game but a VTT as well. No need to reinvent the wheel, here, as WotC has attempted, unless of course you wish to implement true three dimensional tracking into your VTT.

Perhaps Paizo could also partner with DAZ3D, makers of 3d models and the free character modeling application Daz Studio, to offer customizable character models that players could use for character sheets, avatars, and the like. Again, a proprietary application is not needed, when an existing one will do. All that would be needed are models and tutorials.

Another no brainer would be to offer the Pathfinder RPG books as not only PDFs but also in ePub format, so that iPad users with the iBooks app can annotate, bookmark, and highlight as they see fit. The latest version supposedly handles "fully illustrated books, from children's picture books to beautifully designed art books...". Also, while I see several works of Pathfinder-inspired fiction in the iBookstore, having the rulebooks in there might grant additional exposure.

 

[risner]

People seem to forget that Blackberrys still outsell the iPhone by an almost 2:1 margin.

Early last year the graphs were clear, and in Oct 2010 iPhone was more shipments than Blackberry. The trend continues.

The new "RIM" is Google Android, so whether they support iPhone (likely for Paizo being a Mac shop) or Android is the new question.

My hope/money is on iPhone especially with the Verizon iPhone selling 200,000 phones between 3 and 5 am (breaking a Verizon sales record in the process.) To top out at 2.5 times the number of phones Verizon has ever sold in one day. Not to mention the day wasn't 24 hours, since they sold out of the 500,000 they made available in 17 hours.

 

[Cergorach]

Early last year the graphs were clear, and in Oct 2010 iPhone was more shipments than Blackberry. The trend continues.

The new "RIM" is Google Android, so whether they support iPhone (likely for Paizo being a Mac shop) or Android is the new question.

My hope/money is on iPhone especially with the Verizon iPhone selling 200,000 phones between 3 and 5 am (breaking a Verizon sales record in the process.) To top out at 2.5 times the number of phones Verizon has ever sold in one day. Not to mention the day wasn't 24 hours, since they sold out of the 500,000 they made available in 17 hours.

As of December 2010 the percentage of active Android, Black Berry, and iOS smartphones was about equal in the US.

Edit: Might have used a word in the wrong way, cleared up the statement.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

As of December 2010 the demographics of Android, Black Berry, and iOS were about equal in the US.

Um. Don't you mean "market percentage"? Because demographics of the groups are distinctly different.

 

[darjr]

Nope, all us smartphone carriers are all the same.

 

[Gringoire]

May be you will happy to know that i'm developping for apple devices, and i have made "Animal companion" witch is a complete and fully autogenerated sheet for your animal companion.

You can get a preview of what you will be able to do here:
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or on my support site.

I'm sorry for some grammal errors in this application, but i'm italian. I assure you that all animal's stuff are taken from PRD so they are clean by theese errors, and that all will be fixed soon. Anyway, the app is easy to use, errors or not.

I will also create an automated mage helper for spellbook, spells known, spells used etc.

After that i will see what to do for pathfinder RPG.