Badges

A user can get badges on different category, once the user gets the badge they can post it on Facebook wall about the badge...

PUNDIT
When user gets 15 words they get a pundit badge

GURU

When user finishes the category they get guru badge

Chuya Fuchya-UI and UX

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One the game is loaded. The user a message and sees two options:

"See how good is you Nepali vocabulary"

a) Learn How to Play

b) Skip to Game

LEARN HOW TO PLAY

1. Shows the first screen, where user needs to choose a category before they start "Begin Game". NEXT
2. Shows the screen and how the game works. Focos on where word pops up and timer(30 sec timer which begins once the user clicks one of the letter) begins.
3. Focus of Milk Bottle and tells how the milk increases or decreases based on the right or wrong letter selection.
4. Focus on help button and show show it can give hint about the word. This will decrease 5 sec in timer..
5. Shows about the setting where they can change the category and volume
6. Gives options to post the score on Facebook and Challenge friends to beat the score.

SKIP TO GAME

User selects the category and "Begin Game" button activates.

Nepali Hangman V 2.0

Nepali Hangman works but it is too boring and too difficult. Hence the new version will be more fun and lot easier to work with.

NAME: Chuchaya Fuchaya

The name Nepali Hangman catchy but not fun. The new game name is ChucyaFuchaya, so far... . The game will work on the basic principle of Hangman.

GAME: How to

• The game will follow the same principles of the hangman.
• A random word will be populated and user has to guess the word. Instead of a hanging a man there will be a cute Nepali infant with a milk bottle on his side.
• For every wrong letter the milk on the bottle will decrease and the infant will say something funny/stupid that will hurt the users intelligence, like "Ghada", "Pagi".. something in that line..
• When the user get the correct letter the milk will increase but the infant won't appreciate and encourage the user.. instead it he will say something like, "not bad", "any fool can guess that".
• If the user looses the game they baby will cry and say something really mean(but no swearing )
• If the user wins the the infant will laugh and say something smart, probably show some appreciation...

CATEGORY:

The category should be something simple and interesting that is related to Nepali. Like shouldn't be Nepali movies as most of the user who uses Facebook probably don't watch Nepali movie. Cannot be Hindi movies.. as many user might know hindi movies it is not allowed. The game should have only Nepal related stuff..

• Food: Foods from Himal to Teri
  
  1) Momo (of course)
  2)

  Chatamari
  3)

  Aloo Tama
  4)

  Sekuwa
  5)

  Chhoyla
  6)

  Aloo Dum
  7)

  Chura
  8)

  Samosa
  9)

  Khir
  10)

  Achar
  11)

  Bhutuwa
  12)

  Haluwa
  13)

  Masyora
  14)

  सेलरोटी
  15)

  पुरी
  16)

  ढकने
  17)

  कुराउनी
  18)

  थेवे (मूलाको अचार)
  19)

  खल्पी (काँक्राको अचार)
  20)

  मज्यैारा
  21)

  फुलैारा
  22)

  ढिंडो
  23)

  चटपटे
  14) Danaura ( similar to sel but not circular)
  15) Anarsa ( nepalese homemade cookies with sabu dada toppings)
  16) Thekuwa(typical terai snack prepared specially in Chhat festival)
  17) Gojiya (dumpling style sweet snacks)
  18) Topi mathai ( Sahped like nepali cap)
  19) Nimki (diamond shaped salted snacks)
  20) Kasaar ( made of rice powder and gud paste)
  21) Aithe (Newar traditional)
  22) Guthpak
  23) Pustakari
  24) Yamari!!!!!
  25) Lakhamari!!!
  26) jeri swaari..
  27) halwaa puri
  28) eithyaa..
  29) nimki
  30) balbaaraa
  31) lhochaamari (ल्हों-चा मरी)
  
  

• Place: Any district, state and popular village

• Festival: Any festival that is popular all over nepal.

• God: Definitely not all the 33 Koti names...

Feel free to add category or names

MEAN WORDS: Word that says you are stupid

1) Paji

2) Ghada

3) owloo

removing duplicates from an array

I searched online to look for a decent algorithm to remove duplicate values from array but didn't get any thing that was successful. There were couple but none of them worked if you had multiple no of duplicates.

The following algorithm works despite the no of duplicates in an array. This method works for me as I needed a sorted array...

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_array.sort(); // shorts the array so that all the similar values are together

var firstWord:String; // variable for the first word

var secondWord:String; //variable for the second word

for(var j:int =0; j<= _array.length-1; j++)

{

firstWord = _array[j];

secondWord = _array[j+1]; //trace("f: " + firstWord + " S: " + secondWord);

if(firstWord == secondWord) //if the first word and second word is similar

{

_array.splice(j+1,1); // remove the second word from array

j--; // decrease value of counter to recheck for same word

}

}

Android on iPhone

I upgraded my iPhone to os 4.0 from os 3.1. It seemed pretty cool with multitask(kind of) functionality but later I realized that there is no reception. No, I am not talking about new iPhone 4.0 and its hardware issue. The one I have is iPhone 3G.

After few research I found out that iPhone 3G, jail broken with redSnow has the reception. The phone was pretty much useless as I wasn't able to make any phone calls from it. Then I did a little bit more research and found out that I can install Android on iPhone. So I decide to give it a try I had nothing to lose...

The software needed to install android on iPhone is called iphodroid. After few hours of trial and error I was finally able to install a stable version of Android on iPhone. When I installed it for the first time it wasn't responding to the touch. I uninstalled and reinstalled the Android it fixed the issue. The phone was all set to go.

Since it was the fist installation there wasn't even a single contact in my address book. I loged in to google and synced my contact. Since, my google account was synced with itunes all of my contacts was on my new phone.

It was kind of wired to use the phone for the first time because the buttons responded differently than iPhone but it didn't take long for me to figure out the functionality of the buttons. One the first thing that I noticed is that the touch response is kind of slow specially after using iPhone. The user interface isn't that intuitive specially due to the slow response to touch.

One of the main reason I tried Android on iPhone was because the ability to play Flac files via andless app. But it was no use because there was no way for me to upload the music files to the device. The andless app looks for SD to play the music which obesely is not iPhone. So it was no use at all.

Another thing I noticed that the device was running kind of hot and it was sucking all the juice. After continually using the phone for 1.5 hrs the battery was almost dead..

So, my recommandation is not to install Android on iPhone to replace iPhone os.. at least for now..

Notorious Tween and the Garbage Collector Issues

I love tween and use it a lot while making websites and applications. But whenever I use more than 3 tweens simultaneously it doesn't work properly. It works sometimes and sometimes it just freezes in the middle and any Event Listener that has been called is not triggered. Moreover it works on some computer and in some it doesn't.

Before I tell you how to fix it let me explain why it happens. Flash player runs GC (Garbage Collector) once it executes the script. It does this to free up the memory and enhance the performance. Now they way flash player runs the GC depends on the system resource. So if the users computer has less memory GC is triggered earlier and if the user runs the program on the same computer when more memory is available it triggers the GC little late.

Most of the time tween gets stuck if you have code like below where the tween time is different.

var a:Tween = new Tween(a_mc, "y", Back.easeIn, -75, 0, 1, true);

var bTween = new Tween(b_mc, "y", Back.easeIn, -75, 0, 2, true);

var c:Tween = new Tween(c_mc, "y", Back.easeIn, -75, 0, 3, true);

c.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, loadThis);

function loadThis(e:TweenEvent):void

{

trace ("It's Loaded");

}

here the Flash Engine runs all the scripts at same time and when the first tween is finished the GC disables all the tweens. A better way to code is to change the starting "y" axis.

var a = new Tween(a_mc, "y", Back.easeIn, -95, 0, 1, true);

var b = new Tween(b_mc, "y", Back.easeIn, -85, 0, 1, true);

var c = new Tween(c_mc, "y", Back.easeIn, -75, 0, 1, true);

function loadThis(e:TweenEvent):void

{

trace ("It's Loaded");

}

this way, the tween finishes at the same time, the movie clips reaches the destination in different time like the previous code and have less change to effected by GC. Now, this is not the foolproof. It still gets stuck once in a while. This is the issue with Flash Player and there is not way out, for at least now. The issue gets even worse when functions are triggered based on the Event Listener.

To make sure that the functions are running even when the tween gets stuck we can create timer function. In this function we can run a conditional statement to check if the tween has completed and the event has triggered. Here is the code for that

var activated:Boolean;

var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1010,1);

var a = new Tween(a_mc, "y", Back.easeIn, -95, 0, 1, true);

var b = new Tween(b_mc, "y", Back.easeIn, -85, 0, 1, true);

var c = new Tween(c_mc, "y", Back.easeIn, -75, 0, 1, true);

function loadThis(e:TweenEvent):void

{

activated = true;

trace ("It's Loaded");

}

myTimer.start();

myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, checkTween);

function checkTween(e:TimerEvent):void

{

if(activated == false)

{

trace("It's Loaded");

}

if(a_mc.y <=-1 || b_mc.y <=-1 || c_mc.y <=-1)

{

a_mc.y = b_mc.y = c_mc.y = 0;

}

}

Switch Case = Advance If else

If you haven't used Switch conditional statement then you are punishing yourself. By using switch statement you can reduce the code by 60% and is lot easier to read and understand.

Here is a little code for linking multiple websites to multiple button by calling a function. Now isn't that a awesome, one function handeling all MouseEvents

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a_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openURL);

b_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openURL);

c_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openURL);

function openURL(e:MouseEvent):void

{

var url:String = new String(); // Creating a String Variable to pass URL

switch(e.target.parent.name) // Calling the instance name

{

// here it's checking if the name of the instance is "a_btn"

case "a_btn": // if the condition is true

url = "http://www.A.com/"; // do this

break; // and exit the loop

case "b_btn": // if the condition is true

url = "http://www.B.com"; //do this

break; // and exit the loop and so on.......

case "c_btn":

url = "http://www.C.com";

break;

default:

trace("None of the statement is true.")

}

// Once the conditional statement finishes

var myRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url); // created a url request

navigateToURL(myRequest); // open the url request

}

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One thing you have to be careful about he is the colon(:). The case statement ends with colon not with semicolon as other statements does.

And that is it. All the Mouse Click Event calling same function. The function check which Mouse Click Occurred base on that you call other functions of task.

Cups and Coin

Wow, it took a while for me to upload another tutorial. Sorry folks, I was working on Actionscript 3.0, XML, PHP and MySql site, NepaliRecipes.com. It is still on beta version but one can submit and search for Nepali Recipes. Now about this Game, Cups and Coin.

I programmed this game for my class project but it had few issues. First it had 459 lines of code and couple of external classes. I reduce the code to less than 200 line and no external classes. Beside that, there was some kind of bug that kept on changing the initial position of the cups after each animation. Finally, I figured it out. It was the version of Flash Player. If you use other older version then 10.1 it freezes once in a while. The 10.1 version of Flash Player and Flash CS5 handles the Tween Event with very less errors.

So, how does the game work? There are 3 cups and a coin. The coin is put inside one of the cup and moved randomly. A player has to figure out which cup has the coin. Pretty straight forward. After every correct answer level goes up, which increased the number of times the cups are moved and the moves gets faster, i.e. decreases the time. If the player gets 3 wrong picks, the game is over. There are three life and unlimited level, I was able to play up to level ten.

The main logic I used in this game is the coin is always on the same cup, Cup A. The position of Cup A keeps on changing every time, if the player picks Cup A, he finds to coin. Since all the cups as identical, player has to visually keep track of the cup A.

Now, try the Game:

And now here is the source file and the following is the code.

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import fl.transitions.Tween;

import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;

import fl.transitions.easing.*;

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

var reset_mc:mcReset = new mcReset();

var cupAx:Number = new Number(cupA_mc.x);

var cupAy:Number = new Number(cupA_mc.y);

var cupBx:Number = new Number(cupB_mc.x);

var cupBy:Number = new Number(cupB_mc.y);

var cupCx:Number = new Number(cupC_mc.x);

var cupCy:Number = new Number(cupC_mc.y);

var randomFirst:Number;

var randomSecond:Number;

var cupsArray:Array = new Array(cupA_mc, cupB_mc, cupC_mc);

var level:Number = new Number(0);

var counter:Number = new Number(0);

var time:Number = new Number(.6);

var life:Number = new Number(3);

play_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startGame);

play_mc.buttonMode = true;

level_txt.text = "0";

life_txt.text = life.toString();

function startGame(e:MouseEvent):void

{

// Disabling the play button

play_mc.alpha = 0;

play_mc.buttonMode = false;

play_mc.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startGame);

//Fading out the coin before the cup start moving

var myAlphaTween:Tween = new Tween(coin_mc, "alpha", Regular.easeOut, 1, 0, 1, true);

myAlphaTween.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, selectRandomCup);

counter = 0;

level_txt.text = level.toString();

}

function selectRandomCup(e:TweenEvent):void

{

randomFirst = Math.ceil(Math.random()* 3); //generating the first random number

randomSecond = Math.ceil(Math.random()* 3); // generating the second random number

while(randomFirst == randomSecond) //run this loop untill the random second no is different than random first no

{

randomSecond = Math.ceil(Math.random()* 3);

}

if(randomFirst != randomSecond) // once the random numbers are different start swaping

{

//Getting cups from cupsArray using its index number

// Since the random no is between 1-3 and array length is 2, -1 is used so that there is no error.

startSpin(cupsArray[randomFirst-1], cupsArray[randomSecond-1]);

}

}

function startSpin(firstCup:MovieClip, secondCup:MovieClip):void

{

disableCupClicks();// disabling the cups to be clicked

setChildIndex(coin_mc,0); //Sending the coin to back of the cup(add remove child doesn't work,bug)

//Moving the first coin

var cupATweenX:Tween = new Tween(firstCup, "x", Regular.easeOut, firstCup.x, secondCup.x, time, true);

var cupATweenY:Tween = new Tween(firstCup, "y", Regular.easeOut, firstCup.y, secondCup.y, time, true);

//Moving the second coin

var cupBTweenX:Tween = new Tween(secondCup, "x", Regular.easeOut, secondCup.x, firstCup.x, time, true);

var cupBTweenY:Tween = new Tween(secondCup, "y", Regular.easeOut, secondCup.y, firstCup.y, time, true);

//increasing the counter once the move is completed

counter++;

//once the animation is doing call swap again

// Use the MOTION_STOP. For some reason MOTION_FINISH keeps on freezing randomly

cupBTweenY.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_STOP, swapAgain);

}

function swapAgain(e:TweenEvent):void

{

if(level >= counter) //Checking if the move needs to occur again

{

selectRandomCup(e);

}

else

{

enableCupClicks();

}

}

function enableCupClicks():void

{

cupA_mc.buttonMode = true;

cupB_mc.buttonMode = true;

cupC_mc.buttonMode = true;

cupA_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, rightAnswer);

cupB_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, wrongAnswer);

cupC_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, wrongAnswer);

}

function disableCupClicks():void

{

cupA_mc.buttonMode = false;

cupB_mc.buttonMode = false;

cupC_mc.buttonMode = false;

cupA_mc.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, rightAnswer);

cupB_mc.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, wrongAnswer);

cupC_mc.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, wrongAnswer);

}

function rightAnswer(e:MouseEvent):void

{

setChildIndex(coin_mc,5); //Bringing the coing to front

coin_mc.x = cupA_mc.x + cupA_mc.width/2 - coin_mc.width/2; // matching its position with cup A

coin_mc.y = cupA_mc.y+ cupA_mc.height/2 - coin_mc.height/2;

var myAlphaTween:Tween = new Tween(coin_mc, "alpha", Regular.easeOut, 0, 1, .5, true); // Animating it to be visible

checkTime(); //reducing the time if needed

level++; //increasing the level

startGame(e); //starting the game again

}

function wrongAnswer(e:MouseEvent):void

{

if(life >= 1)

{

life --; // Reducing the life count

life_txt.text = life.toString(); //Dispaying the text

setChildIndex(coin_mc,5); // Making the coin visible

coin_mc.x = cupA_mc.x + cupA_mc.width/2 - coin_mc.width/2; // Matching its posistion with cup A

coin_mc.y = cupA_mc.y+ cupA_mc.height/2 - coin_mc.height/2;

var myAlphaTween:Tween = new Tween(coin_mc, "alpha", Regular.easeOut, 0, 1, .5, true);

startGame(e);

}

else // if the life is 0

{

disableCupClicks();

addChild(reset_mc); // show Reset gamebutton

reset_mc.x = -1;

reset_mc.y =stage.stageHeight - reset_mc.height;

reset_mc.buttonMode = true;

reset_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, reload);

}

}

function reload(e:MouseEvent):void

{

// Reseting everything

removeChild(reset_mc);

play_mc.alpha = 1;

play_mc.buttonMode = true;

play_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startGame);

level = 0;

level_txt.text = level.toString();

counter = 0;

time = .6;

life = 3;

life_txt.text = life.toString();

setChildIndex(coin_mc,5);

coin_mc.x = cupA_mc.x + cupA_mc.width/2 - coin_mc.width/2;

coin_mc.y = cupA_mc.y+ cupA_mc.height/2 - coin_mc.height/2;

}

function checkTime():void

{

// if the time is less than 0.2 sec it is very hard to see the animation

if(time >= .2)

{

time -= .07;

}

}