Category Archives: Features / Abilities

The features and abilities of the new Talking Moose. This topic includes basic features, as well as new features that are finished and will be included in the new product.

Errors and Omissions Insurance – Publisher agreements

There was a good article on Gamasutra today, about things that are important about deals with software publishers. Most interesting and new to me, was the idea that “Errors and Omissions Insurance” can protect me in cases of lawsuits.

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Cross-promotion marketing

Today I’m reading articles on Gamasutra about how mobile apps for iPhone and Android are getting hard to market and promote, because of the crowded thousands of similar products on the on-line app stores. So, some people are saying that … Continue reading

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Breast Cancer Awareness month

Here’s an idea, from Kristen, for something to attach to the moose during May, for breast cancer awareness month.

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Magnifying Glass mode

Here’s a fresh idea, but not sure if its a good idea, or a bad idea. Let me jot it down here, and think about it. This Moose model has a lot of details in it, including some currently-ugly eyelashes. … Continue reading

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iPad talking moose

Apple’s announcement of a new iPad with its “Retina Display” with resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels, has finally convinced me. A big display that is big enough to host the Talking Moose. So I’m convinced. After a PC version … Continue reading

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PortableApps.com

I definately want the new Talking Moose to be usable from a USB drive, and not require running “an installer”. I need this feature because I’m intending for people to be able to use the Moose at work, regardless of … Continue reading

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The Moose will need an “Intro” for new users

Taking a lesson from computer games, and Making your Intro not Suck, (a fine article on Gamasutra), Most good software automatically shows new users some Easy and Interesting instructions on how to get started. I’m going to need to give … Continue reading

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The Moose as WebSocket server.

Gamasutra had a short but useful article about implementing a WebSocket server. It’s apparently kindof like making the moose be a Web server for HTTP, except it ends up being faster and for custom messages.

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Give the gift of Talking Moose – flirting – a monitization idea.

From this article on gamasutra about techniques to monitize free-to-play games, I read that people are willing to pay, to give a “gift” of a free-to-play game to someone else, that someone being the target of their affections, who they … Continue reading

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Face tracking with Kinect

As a pleasant side effect of some work we just completed on eye-gaze, we’ve succeeded in coding the ability to correctly adjust the viewing angle of the Moose, as if he truly were a 3-dimension object in front of the … Continue reading

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