Its an app that's aimed at parents that need to entertain there children for a while. It certainly seems to work. Most children I have shown it to seem to love it. In fact my girl friends brothers kids would not go to sleep until they made one last "googly face".
I was really excited to get it out on the market... maybe a little to excited. some of the graphics on release were a little ropey. Something I'm looking to rectify over the coming months. I don't like the hair types.. I could really to do with a proper illustrator to do some "hair" illustrations for me.
Googly face has taken me best part of 4-5 months to develop. I worked on it on evenings and weekends. But with distractions... Thats the problem when working at home at a table in a room that looks directly into the living room, theirs always something on the telly or a video game to distract you. So its actually kind of hard to say exactly how many hours I have put into it. I think its allot though.
Allot has been over coming issues with a new language. Googly face is built using the corona sdk. Corona uses a language called lua. In some respects its been easy as, as a flash developer I can easily relate to lua... But lua is not ummmm a particularly strict language.. is strict the right word? maybe.
Basically I'm used to working with instances of code blocks... classes. My brain is very much wired to work like that. Something I found hard to adjust to in lua.
But I can talk about that in another post some other time!
I've not really said what it does have I!
In brief googly face allows you to...
- select a photo from camera of gallery on a mobile device
- position and resize that image
- add various cartoon like parts to that image. That might be a pig nose, googly eyes, a tash ect.
- when a user presses the the play button these parts come to life. They animate, they play sound, they do stuff when pressed ect.
But take a look for your selves at the below link...
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