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Press event bingo on your iPhone

by Dave Caolo Sep 8th 2008 at 1:30PM

Are you excited for the Sept. 9 press event? Do you like to play bingo? Are you an iPhone application developer? Then this post was delivered from on high directly to your visual cortex.

We've played bingo here on TUAW before. Who could forget iPhone Bingo or MWSF 2008 Bingo? Those were good times. Today, Ernst-Jan Pfauth at The Next Web wants to create a Let's Rock! bingo game, and he needs your help.

Forget PDFs, he wants a full iPhone application, and has posted some possible mock-ups on his site. It would be fun to play collaboratively over Wi-Fi or even upload additional cards for future events.

A web-based version is available here, but let's help Ernst-Jan realize his dream. iPhone developers -- can you give the guy a hand? And while we're at it... speaking of "limited utility..."

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Chuck Smith

Great... now I expect to see 5 Bingo apps appear in the App Store in a week. :)

September 09 2008 at 4:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Aaron

Be great to write this as a generic app to be used for any event like this: political conventions, Apple events, corporate meetings, etc. Make it so the phrase choices are placed online as an XML file or something that you pull in from the app via a URL. And, yes, having it report winners online to a central scoreboard would a riot.

All the resources are there to do this. Could be fun.

September 08 2008 at 4:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Shunnabunich

I like the sound of this. :)

Perhaps a "description" attribute should be available in the XML for each item, so when the user holds their finger down on a square for a second, a bubble will pop up above it with a description or clarification, a la John Siracusa's Keynote Bingo cards.

September 08 2008 at 10:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom Craft

It wouldn't be ready for tomorrow, but I think the mock up on this article is perfect.

And making it past the Apple censors would be easy: just make it a general Bingo app that can read cards from a server. It'd be approved, then just add the Apple event cards as applicable. :)

September 08 2008 at 4:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SubGenius

Especially considering the time constraints a web app would be more appropriate.

September 08 2008 at 2:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gmark2000

At the June keynote we had a drinking game with every time iPhone 3G was mentioned.

September 08 2008 at 2:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marcos

Well, not a lot of time to do a proper app, even if Apple would approve it. Jailbroken app? Nah.
If someone puts together a decent web app that might be fun.

Bingo!

September 08 2008 at 2:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
macxprt

Boom! is the free square. Funny because it is a given he will say this.

September 08 2008 at 2:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MarkM

Jeez - TUAW continues it's downward spiral....

Please stop the anal polls - you are making yourself look like idiots.

September 08 2008 at 2:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cameron

Make a native iPhone application, test it, have it approved, and ready to download in one day?

I'm sure an iPhone developer would be happy to make this ... but give him/her a little warning.

September 08 2008 at 1:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
joshua

My favorite part of the mock-up is the upper-lefthand corner that says "T-Mobile." Ooops!

September 08 2008 at 1:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Steve

The dev could be from Germany, where T-Mobile is the iPhone carrier.

September 08 2008 at 2:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
netgem21

He's in The Netherlands - T-Mobile is the iPhone network there.

September 08 2008 at 2:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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