Helloooooo 
I’ll try to keep this (relatively) short. I’ve been working on iOS development the past couple months, and when I heard about the halo api I figured it’d be a good opportunity to put my learnin's to work. So I came up with this little app idea that keeps track of players’ stats. I thought it might be interesting to have it centered around players' arena win/loss streaks, with a leaderboard sorting players by highest win streak. But obviously there should be some kind of incentive for checking the leaderboards regularly (otherwise, what’s even the point of this leaderboard in the first place, right?). So I was thinking I could make a competition out of it, more or less, where the “goal” is to get a certain amount of consecutive wins. And it could reset each month, so whoever gets the highest streak for the month wins some sort of prize.
The next issue, though, is a matter of getting well-known sponsors to donate prizes, and for those prizes to actually be incentive enough to retain interest and gain popularity. But obviously the sponsor thing is dependent on the app's popularity, so this issue is more something to worry about closer towards release.
So that pretty much explains the idea. Now, I came to you guys because you're cool and I hear some of you are 14 and almost have girlfriends. Also, I wanted to listen to any and all feedback you guys might have, seeing as y’all are usually smart and whatnot.
Here’s a WIP video showing my progress so far. When players’ info is displayed in that video, that top third of the screen (that section with the “All Time Stats” title) is currently functioning and will display players’ overall stats. The bottom 2/3rds (the scroll-y part with the circle-y thing) will display monthly stats, however that part isn’t quite set up yet, hence why in the video, the same monthly stats are shown for every player. Getting that set up will take some back end server-side work, which I’m hoping to get some help with.
Anyways, yea! Everything is still up in the air I guess. If you feel so inclined, I’m looking for feedback in the following areas:
Thanks for reading dawgs. o/
I’ll try to keep this (relatively) short. I’ve been working on iOS development the past couple months, and when I heard about the halo api I figured it’d be a good opportunity to put my learnin's to work. So I came up with this little app idea that keeps track of players’ stats. I thought it might be interesting to have it centered around players' arena win/loss streaks, with a leaderboard sorting players by highest win streak. But obviously there should be some kind of incentive for checking the leaderboards regularly (otherwise, what’s even the point of this leaderboard in the first place, right?). So I was thinking I could make a competition out of it, more or less, where the “goal” is to get a certain amount of consecutive wins. And it could reset each month, so whoever gets the highest streak for the month wins some sort of prize.
The next issue, though, is a matter of getting well-known sponsors to donate prizes, and for those prizes to actually be incentive enough to retain interest and gain popularity. But obviously the sponsor thing is dependent on the app's popularity, so this issue is more something to worry about closer towards release.
So that pretty much explains the idea. Now, I came to you guys because you're cool and I hear some of you are 14 and almost have girlfriends. Also, I wanted to listen to any and all feedback you guys might have, seeing as y’all are usually smart and whatnot.
Here’s a WIP video showing my progress so far. When players’ info is displayed in that video, that top third of the screen (that section with the “All Time Stats” title) is currently functioning and will display players’ overall stats. The bottom 2/3rds (the scroll-y part with the circle-y thing) will display monthly stats, however that part isn’t quite set up yet, hence why in the video, the same monthly stats are shown for every player. Getting that set up will take some back end server-side work, which I’m hoping to get some help with.
Anyways, yea! Everything is still up in the air I guess. If you feel so inclined, I’m looking for feedback in the following areas:
- general UI / layout / aesthetic feedback
- having the app centered around a win/loss streak leaderboard
- other stats to include, besides those shown in the video
- too similar to halotracker? If so, what could set it apart
- anything else, basically
Thanks for reading dawgs. o/
