Windows Phone App: LoL Assistant

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LoL Assistant

After 2 simple apps made to discover the Windows Phone development (Simple Ping & WindChill Calculator), I started a month and a half ago to code a tool for League of Legends in order to assists me during ranked games.

First of all, « What’s League Of Legends? » some of you may ask.

League Of Legends is a very popular game, published by RIOT, gathering more than 10 milions of players. Its ancestor is a game called DotA (actually a mod for WarCraft III)

You usually play it 5 versus 5 (one player handling only one unit: his hero). During a match, you can’t have any information on your mates or your ennemies (there’s no « /stats X » command or those kind of tools).

LoL Assistant allows you to fill your mates & opponents names, and the app will gather every useful stats you need to know (level, ranking, ranked Wins/losses, normal wins/losses, ratios..)  so you are:

  • Ready to own unskilled enemies. Focus them will give you the lead.
  • Careful versus strong enemies. You know you should play safe versus them, and gank them hard together.
  • Helpful with unskilled mates, don’t let them feed!
  • More aware of what good mates could say

Development:

After I coded 85% of the app, a friend of mine (http://www.who-is-ohw.com/) helped me getting a good design. I learnt quite a lot working with him, about how a team project can work out in a « friendly mood » without defining too much who is responsible of what precisely. Definitely not the same as my professional position!

Here you can see some screenshot of the app:

And here is the link to the marketplace page.

Give it a try and increase your rankings!

Windows Phone App: Simple Ping

I recently bought a Windows Phone device (the very well known Lumia 800. Thx Microsoft&Nokia for all the advertisement in the Paris’ metro)

The idea was to build some apps for the windows market before it gets overcrawded like the IOS & the Android one are.

For a start, I decided to build a very simple app, in order to publish and to have info on the process.

I noticed they were no simple app allowing a user to perform a ping on an Url or an IP and get the delay. That’s how Simple Ping was born!

Screen from the Windows Phone Emulator : Simple ping in action!

The logo is from my friend ohw (http://www.who-is-ohw.com)

Number of total downloads + ad related crashes after 3 weeks (yeah, so popular ;))

Ad provided by Microsoft adControl can sometimes bring some crashes (caught though), which make my dashboard looks like my app is not robust! I will work on a solution to avoid getting those useless reports during the next developments.

More Infos:

Link to the app on the Windows Market