The Shoebox. A place for lil' apps to live in peace and harmony.

This is a game which offers practice and competitive play with Multiplication Tables! It has some quirky artwork and keeps track of score.

It has some bugs (noted in the code) and needs serious improvement.

  • WARNING * Some testers have found that the logo is cooler than the actual game.
  • FAILS * The last time I tried this, it no longer works (probably due to updates in shoes code). No time to fix it right now, I wish there was a way to remove it from the-shoebox.
Versions:
.rb
v0.1


Speak now or forever hold your peace:

Tim
April 18, 2008

My server is not working right now, so the images won’t load. Please wait to try out Multiply.

Jesse
May 7, 2008

Yo Tim, for the images, unless they need to be served online for dynamic reasons, you can pack them into a .shy file with your rb, then distribute the shy file.

Use my shymaker to make shymaking easy. :) put the images in a folder with your rb file, or in a subfolder like “images”, and then refer to them relatively: like “image.jpg”, or ”./image.jpg” or “images/image.jpg” or ”./images/image.jpg” (whichever form works the best for you).

Tim
May 24, 2008

Thanks, Jesse,

I have followed your good advice, as you can see above.

tanuki
July 16, 2008

Appears to be a copy of the class-book.rb sample??

Azrael
August 5, 2008

I know this will sound incredibly harsh, but the only nice thing about this application is the logo here on the-shoebox.org. (It is a very nice logo, by the way.)

Tim
August 11, 2008

Tanuki – no not a copy.

Azrael – I’m glad you liked the logo. Admittedly it is a very simple app and not even finished properly. It’s kind of Ironic that the logo is better than the app. Maybe I should have a disclaimer.

Tim - Author
September 15, 2008

Probably due to changes in shoes, this no longer works.


How do I use this?