Rolled out an update today: Version 0.7.4731-Beta
What's New
- Bug fixes
- 360 puzzles included
- Lots of work behind the scenes
Road Map
These are the things I hope to build into the app someday. These may or may not happen but they are what I am currently working on behind the scenes.
- Choose Bible version:
Idea: Ability to select a Bible version and only play verses from that version.
Progress: This is getting very close, hope to release it as a feature soon. - Play Packs:
Idea: Groups of verses ("Play Packs") instead of randomly selected verses.
Progress: Haven't started. - Custom Play Packs:
Idea: User generated puzzles saved into play packs.
Progress: Built a puzzle generator. Needs a user interface and is waiting on main menu with play packs to be completed first. - Mini games:
Idea: Playable mini-games (for example they could be similar to: pong, flappy-bird, minesweeper, etc.) the purpose being to break up game play and to acquire power-ups to be used on puzzles.
Progress: Haven't started. - Power-ups:
Idea: Gained from mini-games, storable and usable for things like narrowing the keyboard to only letters for the current word, solving all of one letter on the puzzle, etc.
Progress: Haven't started. Waiting on mini-games to be completed first. - Sounds:
Idea: Default to off but allow to be toggled on
Progress: Haven't started. - Better Graphics/Animation:
Idea: After core functionality is built in I hope to start working on the graphics, animation, and general "gamification" of the app.
Progress: Added in some playful animations but they caused lots of issues and had to remove them. Need to start over with these. - Verse of the day puzzles:
Idea: A new puzzle for each day matching up to the YouVersion Bible App's verse of the day.
Progress: Built an API of sorts for the You Version verse of the day, also found that pulling BibleGateway.com's verse of the day should be pretty easy to accomplish. Need to rewrite the puzzle generator code in another language so it can run on a server separate from the app. Then this feature will be waiting on the main menu and the play packs to be completed.