node.js ko
ScorePad
ScorePad
by sewercity
The ScorePad is a simple web app that keeps score for card games, board games, drinking games, etc. Just have all players pull the site up on their phone and track the game progress in realtime. No need to find a pen in your junk drawer.
It also tracks your record of wins and losses and will post your wins to Facebook.
Judging Instructions
Facebook login is required. It is meant to be a mobile app but I could only test on my Android Evo. It seems to work in FireFox, Chrome, and Safari as well so I would hope it works on the iPhone.
You will need 2 people (or 2 browsers) to really test. Open up the app on phone and start/join a game. When you click the scores they will update all players apps. Players should be able to join mid game and they will be added to the list.
I have had lots of issues with cookies. So if you log in and out of Facebook a lot then you might have to clear cookies before ScorePad will run again.
Facebook posts also only work if your permissions are wide open.
Who
dustinsmith1024 — KC MO
How
Node modules: Express, Facebook-Graph, Jade, Mongoose, Socket.io, Underscore.js
Design: Skeleton boilerplate, http://antifavicon.com/ for my favicon
Deployment: Heroku, MongoLab add-on for free Mongo hosting.
API’s: Just Facebook
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chrismatthieujudge
landlessnessjudgenice, simple idea. i had a tough time testing it. with such a tightly focused use case, I would have liked to see more energy put into the visual design. with more time to complete, this could be a popular app.
ekryskijudgeI feel like there are too many screens to go through in order to get to the meat of the app. I also did not have any luck adding or subtracting points to my score. Maybe a bug? I actually don’t mind the idea but I feel that it needs to be made easier to do for people to actually use it. Also, I would like to be able to log out from the app.
- contestant
Sorry you couldn’t add any points. Did you have the user selected before click the plus buttons? If you click on the user they highlight orangish, then you should be able to add points. Looks like others are possibly having that issue, so obviously a design flaw.
Thanks for the feedback.
- ekryskijudge
I didn’t have the the user selected. When I went back and tried that, it worked. I do agree that there is a design flaw there. From my experience designing UI’s most of the time when I try to assume that the user is not tech savvy and that nothing is obvious. It would have been better to have even some more involved instructions. Good effort though.
burntojudgeUnfortunately this is really hard to judge because I can’t easily login under two different Facebook accounts. I tried with two browsers, but there’s no option to play against myself.
Why do we need our Facebook identities anyway? Why do we even need a login? I’d much prefer to just create a game and get assigned some URL, add players, and let anyone who knows the URL look at or adjust the scores. Security, authentication, and identity just aren’t important to me for a face to face card or board game.
The concept is not bad. It would be nice to replace pen/paper for certain card games I play on occasion.
The score adjustment interface is OK, but might be a little frustrating in practice. I’d like to see an interface more tailored to some specific game or two that the developers are most familiar with, rather than a generic point system.
- contestant
Thanks for the feedback. I understand it is hard to do with one person. I had to use my wife’s for testing the whole weekend and it was a pain… I spent way to much time fighting Facebook cookie issues.
The idea behind Facebook/auth is to be more than just a scoring app and create a record of wins and losses, escpecially against your friends/family.
Thanks again, good feedback
- burntojudge
Good feedback on my feedback. Your case for accounts is a good one. I nudged up my completeness score a point.
jcolebrand
contestantGreat idea but maybe a little too simple for nko? I would have liked to have seen it a little more intuitive (I wasn’t sure how to know that it was tracking which player to add to), and if you only have one player it should automatically track that one player.
- contestant
Agreed it was simple…
Did you click on the user or the checkbox next to the user before trying to add? I tried to hint at it with that needing to be active, but looks like it didn’t work.
Good point on tracking the only user…probably should default it to you.
therazorbladejudgeI like the idea of a shared notepad for recording game information but this is too limited to be useful. Need to manage multiple games at the same time and the way sharing is setup does not take advantage of the fact you are using FB.
- contestant
No doubt, had bigger plans of Facebook updates and such but didn’t get there. Thanks for the feedback.
froderik
contestantUseful
henrikberggrenjudgeGreat little app for keeping scores. Been done a few times before though
Idea is good though the design is not intuitive and I had difficulties about sharing a game, seeing a game list etc. Though again, the idea is good and I hope to see this app on the wild with a better UI. Gratz!