Blood Bowl Dice roller app for Android Phones

[ninjahamster]

Hi guys, I was recently made redundant, and whilst i've been job searching i've been trying my hand at app development and i've come up with a little android app that simulates all the dice rolls involved in a game of Blood Bowl and also gives you the text for the weather/kick off/injury rolls.

• D6 & D8 Dice
  Block Dice
  Weather Rolls
  Kick Off Rolls
  Injury Rolls

There's a free version, or if you want to support a struggling developer and Waterbowler you can buy an 'enhanced' version for £1.50

You can get it searching on the Android Market for 'BB Dice' or 'Blood Bowl' and look for the app from Ninjahamster Studios, or click the link below, or scan in the below barcodes on your phone.

Paid version - https://market.android.com/details?id=c ... oid.BbDice


Free version - https://market.android.com/details?id=c ... BbDiceLite


Should work on all Android phones/tablets - let me know if there are any problems/comments/features you'd like to see.

More details and screenshots can be found on my website: http://ninjahamsterstudios.wordpress.com/

Thanks for looking and hopefully some people will find it useful/interesting - I'm open to further ideas/functions, and will be updating regularly.

I've also cross posted this into the General Chat folder, as I wasn't sure of the best place to put it.

Cheers

Jimmy

[ninjahamster]

Darkson - thought this would be the better place - cheers

and inkpwn - if you press menu, and go into settings you can turn the sounds off - yeah the stock sound effects are a bit naff, but I wanted to play around with using multimedia

[Sandwich]

Lovely little app there

One thing though - I was having a play around (Galaxy S2, Android v2.3 I think) and it seems like if I do 7 or 8 rolls on the same screen in a row it crashes...

[ninjahamster]

Thanks,

Hmmm I did hear that from another user, tried to recreate it, but it only happens if I repeatdly press the roll button quickly about 20-30 times.

did you have the sounds on when it crashed?

[ace_of_jase]

I was doing the same on a Galaxy S, Android 2.2 and wasn't being excessive about pressing the roll button but was continuously rolling dice via the app and I also found that about 7-8 or so rolls it Force Closes.

That aside.....nice app...and I find the sound of dice rattling somewhat reassuring so I guess that feature is a tad marmite amongst the user community.

Good work!

[ninjahamster]

After a bit of testing, it seems it wasn't stopping the sound properly.

An update will be released shortly

[Magic Dave]

Would be good if we could roll 2 die 6's for armour.

[dines]

This is neat, played a game a couple of days ago and we couldn't find a d8, so thanks Ninja.

One idea though, it could be cool with a 1-16 roll to determine random MVP postgame.

[ninjahamster]

New version just released - now with an armour roll tab, enter the target av and what skills you have and it'll tell you if you break through.

Good idea about the MVP roll - will try and add that in for the next version

Cheers

[Darkson]

Just had a quick play with the update, and it's combining modifiers it shouldn't (Mighty Blow and Dirty Player for example).

Also, the Injury Roll needs renaming as Casualty Roll, and a separate Injury Roll added, with modifiers.

[mubo]

I have this, and it's pretty neat.

If it's not too much effort, would it be possible to display dice pips rather than digits... for some reason I find those easier to read!

I'll buy it if you do...

[Purplegoo]

I downloaded the freebie for a go. Good stuff.

If I ever use it in real life, I'll stump up the readies.

[ninjahamster]

>Darkson

yeah, I could add the logic in to stop the illegal combination of skills, but the problem there is deciding which run through, although I suppose I could 'grey out' certain selections if certain ones are clicked - hmm, I'll investigate.

Renaming it Casualty roll is a good idea, that'll go in the next update - and I was going to add the injury roll in the next update too.

>Mubo

I guess adding a more visual element would make it a bit funkier looking

>Purplegoo

As long as you occasionally click on the adverts the free version is fine