LOTR TCG Database iPad App

[bennibrightside]

Hello everybody,

this is my first post in this forum, so I would like to introduce myself first. I'm from Germay and I have played the LOTR TCG since it came out here in 2001. Unfortunatly, none of my friends are active players anymore and so I haven't played the game for a while. That's where I got the Idea which I want to present you.

I'm a professional software developer, and I mainly write programs for the Apple iPad and iPhone in my spare time. Recently I had the idea to have an app for browsing the LOTR TCG DB on my iPad. And I mean, not browsing the database via the built-in browser, but to have a specialized app. So you could watch the database offline and keep track of your personal collection and many other things. I haven't really started on this program yet, because I wanted to hear your opinion on this first, but I think I could put together a first version in a matter of days.

That's where I wanted to hear some other opinions on this. Are there any iPad users here, who are interested in such an app? Is there already such an app and I missed it? How would you design it? I'm going to write this app for my personal use mainly, but if there are any other users here who are interested in this app, I'd like to make it as a kind of "community project".

So my question is: Are you interested in such an app.

[jdizzy001]

that would be really awesome.  if you could do it, we would be grateful

[Smeagollum]

Would be great if you'd also make it compatible for non-Ipad users.

[Ulmo]

I'm writing a collection manager/deck builder in Java in my spare time.  Once I'm finished I'll be posting it for anyone to use.  If anyone does, great, if not, then so be it. 

Don't know if iPad uses Java or not, but good luck.  I've had fun writing mine.  The collection manager is done, the deck builder is about halfway done.

I'm writing it for myself and a friend I play against at work.  I don't get much time at home to work on it though.

Good luck.

[CCCORNIV]

I appreciate your efforts Ulmo and I look forward to seeing your work bennibrightside.

[bennibrightside]

Very early concept screenshot:

[chompers]

Looks good - i am sure the iPad users will like it - you might even get some players to go out and get an iPad perhaps

[Jerba]

Very nice. Don't have an iPad but seems like a great tool for those who do.

BTW I would totally play LOTR online on a tablet, that would be awesome to actually move the cards.

[ket_the_jet]

I don't think a Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game Database is a reason to go out and get an iPad, right chompers?
-wtk

[MR. Lurtzy]

I dunno, it would be a major selling point for me.

[Cw0rk]

LOTRTCG on the Ipad sounds like an interesting idea. Is it possible to make a GCCG-like game on the Ipad? I think that it would be more useful than a simple database.

[bennibrightside]

Of course it would be possible, but insanely difficult to do...
The main difficulty lies in the complexity of the rules of each single card. This is extremely difficult to program, at least for me^^
I simply don't have the time to create such a game, but I agree, it would be really awsome on the iPad!

[Smeagollum]

Do we need an Ipad? And if so.. why?

[bennibrightside]

To run the program I'm writing you will need an iPad because it is an iPad app, which doesn't run on a PC.

[Faelach]

To run the program I'm writing you will need an iPad because it is an iPad app, which doesn't run on a PC.

Is there any way you could make it compatible with a Touch?