Sheldon rules guide

Hi again folks, this is a small guide that explains you how you play the "Sheldon" rules:

rock wins over scissors and lizard,
paper wins over rock and spock,
scissors wins over paper and lizard,
lizard wins over paper and spock,
spock wins over rock and scissors...

Sooner or later you'll find these rules explained inside the game too,
meanwhile... ciaoooooooooo

p.s. for the folks that want an alternative funnier explanation of these rules, here you are ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kov2G0GouBw

Android version available now!

As happily announced yesterday, or as many of you may notice... quite earlier today, I just uploaded the Android version of TheSheldonChallenge. For those who already tried the PC version, it will look very familiar, in any case I'll list here the features

Very important: you need Android 2.2 or higher in your cellphone in order for it to work!

LINK: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7217397/TSCAndroid1_2.apk

FEATURES of v1.2:
- Single-player against AI games
- Translations in Albanian, Dutch, English, French, Italian, German, Persian, Portuguese and Spanish
- Score to win customizable
- Two rules available: CLASSIC (rock, paper, scissors) or SHELDON (rps, lizard, spock)
- Options are persistent (you'll find back the options you were using each time you start the game)
- Option of selecting a random move
- Option of surrendering during a game
- Option of playing a rematch instead of directly going back to the menu

You'll find notes about how to install and play the game and about the requirements on the right panel

Really hope you will enjoy my game.
Please write me any comments or problems here or at my address thesheldonchallenge@gmail.com.

Enjoooooooooooy!!
Ciaoooooooooooo

p.s.

Version 1.2 Available

Hey everybody,

Why don't you get some Christmas quality surprise for you and your friends with the release the version 1.2 of TheSheldonChallenge!

It is the equivalent version of the Android version (which you can find at this link: http://sheldonchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/android-version-available-now.html)

I've also updated the instructions to run the game for each of the most common operating systems:
- for Win users: extract everything and run the "tsc.bat" file.
- for Unix and Mac users: extract everything and run the "tsc.sh" file.

Easy right?? Have a nice holiday everyone!!
Even though I may be back soon enough ;)
Ciaooooooooooooooo

Version 1.2 and Android Version announced

Good news everybody!!!!

In great secret I've been preparing the Android implementation of my game and I'm finally happy, no excited, to announce its release for tomorrow December 14th at 11:59pm (more or less :P)  Sicilian time (which for you curious guys is still the same as the Italian one).

Since it came with a lot of code modifications and some minor bug fixes I'm happy to announce the release of the plain version for PC no later than December 18th, just to give me some time to manage other things too, like my masters thesis... you know ;)

For both of them I'll announce the release and put the links in the upper right section of the blog, which will also go under a little restyling to let everything fit well!

I can't wait for you to test it and tell me what you think :)
New languages are welcome too!!

See you soon!!!
Ciaooooooooooooooooooo

Version 1.1 Available

Hello everyone, I'm happily announcing the release of a new version of TheSheldonChallenge (link available on the uppermost box to the right).

Here are some of the new features:
- Modified graphical interface.
- Fixed synchronization problems between rounds.
- Fixed some in-game bugs.
- Full support for left to right languages. Available (in alphabetical order) in: Albanian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish.
- Partial support for right to left language: the mix with latin characters is to be fixed. Available in Persian.

I'm planning to add full support for right to left languages and I still welcome anyone who'd like to help me in the implementation of languages in the game (30 words set... very small)

Other than that, I'm planning to add the possibility to play a two players game and to change a little bit the graphics again.
I'll take it a bit cooler till December because I'm about to complete a master's thesis, but I hope to make some updates soon.

Meanwhile... enjoooooooooooy!!

p.s. thanks to my friends Ade, Ali, Juliane, Mennan, Sven and Valeria for helping me with the translations.

Version 1.1 announced

After a good load of work, I'm happy to announce the release of version 1.1 for Nov.1st. It may come with a surprise...
Stay tuned!

Translations needed

At this point I can translate my game in any language quite easily but I can do it only in the languages I know. I you'd like to contribute to the transtlation please send me a mail (thesheldonchallenge@gmail.com) with the languague you could traslate it for and I'll send you my set of words and sentences (about 30 elements overall) to translate.

So far I translated my game only in English and Italian and I prepared translations in French, Spanish and Portuguese to be corrected.

I'd really appreciate your help!
Thanks!

Ecco a voi TheSheldonChallenge!!

Eccoci!! Sono molto emozionato!! Finalmente il mio primo gioco è nato!! Non è il migliore ma chiaramente potete utilizzarlo quando siete particolarmente annoiati e avete bisogno di una pausa da qualunque cosa stiate facendo :P

DESCRIZIONE: TheSheldonChallenge è un gioco di Morra Cinese (carta forbice pietra, per intenderci), è in parte ispirato allo show the Big Bang Theory da cui trovere alcune immagini e le regole usate nello show.

DOWNLOAD: I link si trovano nella sezione in alto a destra, all'inizio del blog

COME INSTALLARE e GIOCARE: basta estrarre il contenuto dove vi pare e piace e aprire il file "theSheldonChallenge.jar". Funziona su sistemi Windows con Java installato.

CARATTERISTICHE della v1.0:
- Partite a singolo giocatore contro l'AI
- Traduzione completa in italiano e inglese
- Punteggio per la vittoria personalizzabile
- Due regole disponibili: CLASSIC (carta, forbice, pietra) or SHELDON (cfp, lucertola, spock)
- Le opzioni e il nome del giocatore sono persistenti (ritroverete le opzioni che stavate usando ogni volta che riaprite il gioco)
- Opzione per scegliere una mossa casuale
- Opzione per la resa
- Opzione per chiedere la rivincita senza passare dal menu principale

TheSheldonChallenge è un gioco molto semplice, ma in continua evoluzione (solo abbiate un pò di pazienza visto che lavorandoci solo io, ci vorrà tempo per nuove release)

Spero tanto che il mio gioco vi piaccia.
Per favore scrivetemi tutti i contenti qui o al mio indirizzo thesheldonchallenge@gmail.com (già presente)
Spero di ritrovarvi presto con nuovi aggiornamenti e caratteristiche del gioco!!
Ciaoooooo

p.s. per gli utenti Linux: purtroppo la grafica non viene mostrata bene ancora. Ci sto lavorando. Ciao!

TheSheldonChallenge is born!!!!

Given the importance of the event I'll write this post either in Italian and in English (I would love to do it on other languages too, but I just don't have time)

Here we go!! I'm so excited about it!! Cheer up for my first game that just came to life!! It's not the fanciest of course but you can use it when you're bored and you just need a pause from whatever you're doing :P

DESCRIPTION: TheSheldonChallenge is a Rock-Paper-Scissor game, it's in part inspired from the Big Bang Theory show from where you'll find some images and the rules used in the show.

DOWNLOAD: you can find it on the uppermost right section

HOW TO INSTALL and PLAY: just extract the content of the archive wherever you want and open the "theSheldonChallenge.jar" file. Works on Windows systems with Java installed.

FEATURES of v1.0:
- Single-player against AI games
- Full translations in English and Italian
- Score to win customizable
- Two rules available: CLASSIC (rock, paper, scissors) or SHELDON (rps, lizard, spock)
- Options and the name of the player are persistent (you'll find back the options you were using each time you start the game)
- Option of selecting a random move
- Option of surrendering during a game
- Option of playing a rematch instead of directly going back to the menu

TheSheldonChallenge is a simple game, but it will be evolving (just be patient because since it's only me working on it, it will take some time for a new release)

Really hope you will enjoy my game.
Please write any comments to me here or at my address thesheldonchallenge@gmail.com (yeah, it's already on)
Hope to see you soon with new updates and features!!
Ciaoooooo

p.s. for Linux users: unfortunately the game should not display correctly. I'm working on that. Ciao!

Almost ready

Yes, The Sheldon Challenge is almost ready to be release, at least on its first version.

Hopefully I'll be able to complete it by the next week.

See you soon!!

Welcome!

Welcome to The Sheldon Challenge blog. Here you will find all the information about this awesome game.
The release date is about to come and I will certainly keep you updated about it progress.
Until then... have fun!
Ciaoooooo