Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas

"Scrabble"

(1/4) > >>

pondlife:
Idea I had - a Scrabble-type game (modified enough to avoid the wrath of Hasbro and Mattel's lawyers), complete with a computer player.

Ideally the dictionary would be loaded from a text file, and would learn (i.e if the user plays an unknown word, they are challenged/asked to confirm, and if they confirm, the word is added to the dictionary).

Should you accept this challenge:
- bing for xscrabble for a GPL-ed computer player algorithm
- Look at http://www.lexulous.com/ for inspiration
- Perhaps call it LetterBox? (no! no more Rock...  ...Box names!)

pondlife

(jdgordon edit: sorry, couldnt resist... have to tow the company line....)

froggyman:
I think this would be a great addition to rockbox.

Llorean:
I'm not sure how much of a benefit "learning" has. It's just as likely to let people accidentally confirm typos.

There's a few standard scrabble dictionaries out there. It may just be best to include as many of these as are available, and let the user select among them, or load a custom dictionary in advance (and then let any editing take place outside the context of the game).

JdGordon:
doesnt letterbox sound more like an addition to mpegplayer than scrabble? surely it should be called rocksbrabox?

cool_walking_:
No, letterbox sounds like some sort of magical "mail client on a DAP without internet access".  rocksbrabox sounds like a catalogue of undergarments.

How about "confabulate"?

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page