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Ideas of applications
New inspiration to create your own Arbalet app? Have a look to the list below:
Note: If you probably imagine easily how an arcad game can render on Arbalet, some ideas below however are less trivial to represent on a low resolution and coloured surface. This is part of the game, just let your imagination take over. Remember one thing, if you intend to draw complex things like you would do on a computer screen, you're probably thinking that badly, you should instead use the whole table and a big range of colors.
Because of human cupidity, information about money is probably the only data fluctuating each second available online in real time (hum, say the less real-time of them are freely available, but that's still very fast). Use all the surface, all the colors, this will give art, but art based on meaningful data.
Red is good to fall asleep, blue is good to wake up, based on that, build an original alarm clock...
If it's not too much archaic, your local public transportation company may provide an API to get real time info about the network. With all Arbalet pixels you may represent several stations, several bus lines, time left before the next one...
Arbalet already provides a simple example of spectrum analyser. To improve it connect your phone, and see the spectrum or any msucial animation played in real time.
Browse the notification bar of your phone and imagine what events can be reported to the table
Display your love message or your todo list on Arbalet. The ASCII characters rendering should be builtin to the SDK but a dedicated app can use this future feature to display a list of texts, with different colors, at certain times, ...
The third dimension is the color.
A midi file has several tracks with notes starting and stopping for each one, that should be easy to represent some tracks of a midi song
Pixelise, draw and animate the world's flags
Normal people think about programming a normal digital clock first.
Not easy with so little pixels. Think about using more than one state
Simulate a program running on a Turing machine. Have a look to the numerous software/hardware simulations to get more ideas first, they are awesome.
Why not sorting colors, number of pixels or both? Bubble sort, quick sort, heap sort ... make it more easy to understand and compare them!
How to render the calculation of pi, the golden number or the Fibonacci sequence on Arbalet?
Errrr, just a random idea, maybe not that much pertinent.
There are so much things to put in this list... Switch on your old consoles to get more ideas, but implementing recent games on 150 pixels and 256^3 colors is also challenging.
To play to your games, think about using different kind of inputs, joysticks, leap motion, kinect, ...
That will be necessary to implement the text feature of the SDK first. Or you consider the player must remember the sequence of letters, that's also a choice, invent your rules!
Invent variants, this game is soooo boring
On 150 pixels, either your Tron world will be really small, or you invent new rules. What about allow crossing walls built more than 10 seconds ago? Use colors to represent the age of a wall, and try if it's challenging!
When cars move on a linear infinite road...
The original game is 7x6 but use all rows and all columns. Maybe variants would make the game less annoying also.
Pieces are represented via a unique color
At least 12x9