Description
* Selected by O'Reilly Media as a Best iPhone App, and featured in O'Reilly's upcoming book, "Best iPhone Apps: A Guide for Discriminating Downloaders"
* Voted "Best Kid Distraction App" from the 2008 Best App Ever Awards
************** NEWS *************
Announcing the first release of SPARTICLE, an iPhone / iPod Touch game that takes iChalky's physics to the next level.
Visit www.metois.com/Sparticle for more information.
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Chalky is a stand up guy, or at least he tries very hard to be.
Chalky is a simplistic stick figure whose posture and behavior result from the mechanical constraints that define him. He consists of a set of 8 masses connected to one another through a series of damped springs with various coefficients. Gravity and instantaneous acceleration are estimated from your iPhone's X and Y accelerometers and transferred onto Chalky's virtual world.
Friction was further added to the edges of his frame along with some rudimentary stepping heuristics to give him a fighting chance to maintain his balance as you rotate your phone around or take him on the bus with you. You can also grab, stretch and throw him with your multi-touch screen if you feel he's not getting enough abuse.
Chalky also thinks he can dance and he'll start busting his moves if he detects music through your phone's microphone... so crank up the tunes! Unfortunately you can't use the iPod application on your phone as I couldn't figure out how to make that work.
Chalky is not artificially intelligent and none of his gestures are choreographed. He illustrates the fact that humble perceptual measurements and simple constraints set in a physically meaningful environment can lead to interesting and sometime unexpected behavior.
A video demonstration is available on iChalky's website.
NOTE: This application monitors your microphone audio input. In order for Chalky to dance you must be using either an iPhone or a 2nd generation iPod Touch with a set of headphones that include a microphone. Contrary to some reviews iChalky works on any iPod Touch.
What's New in Version 1.4
Added scale control and limited the number of clones to 20 in response to user feedback.
Customer Reviews
ipod touch
plz make it were the person dances on the ipod touch more people will buy it clik yes if u agree
Warning! Does not work with Ipod Touch!
Well I just lost a buck. The program looks cool and I can't down it on that level but this program doesn't work with an iPod Touch. The developer needs to make that clear in the documentation or make the program work with the Touch in an update for those Touch owners that bought the app in error.
Ipod touch
needs ipod touch compatibility
- $0.99
- Category: Entertainment
- Updated: Feb 15, 2010
- Current Version: 1.4
- 1.4 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 0.7 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Eric Metois
- © 2008 Eric Metois
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.
