Mobile Pals Best Friend on the Line jason.dang jon.keto CSE 403. Spring 2003
Gigapets. Tamagotchis Digimon Single User Toys No interaction between pets Device is useless besides housing the pet People get tired of carrying an extra device on them Digimon: can battle between pet but not enough users.
Introducing Mobile Pal Based on the original concepts of digital pet Virtual Buddy that “live” on your cell phone This virtual buddy shares many features with a regular pet: aging, eating, competing… Allow interactions amongst users i.e., pets. There will be a mobile pal community that allows the users to train and improve their pet.
Tamagotchis vs. Mobile Pals Eating Sleeping Playing Cleaning Training Discipline Getting Sick/ Injure All the features on the left plus: Academic learning Group interactivity Multi-Player Games “MOBILE” pals Color Improved graphics
Mobile Pal Land A virtual world created just for mobile pals Include: - training center: improve your pals - shopping center: buying equips - arena: battle against other pals - academy: improve IQ for your pals - double jeopardy: compete - mating garden: you know…
Who wants a pal? Cell phone has been very popular and it’s still spreading to the younger generation Young people 9-24 Majority will be at the lower end of this range. Especially those pokemon lovers Upper range will be for those that have a Gigapet when they were younger
Typical Cases: While waiting for his ride after baseball practice, Billy trains his Monkey Pal to play baseball or how to fight. Kim and her groups of friends sitting in the lunchroom boasting their pets’ status. They are testing to see whose pet is the brightest by asking various math questions.
How does it work? Handheld device will speak to the servlet Servlet will interpret the requests according to its pal profiles. Servlet will then call the specific module to complete the request. These modules update the database Database send information back to update the handheld screen.
Interaction Diagram
Who would supports such a thing? Original creator of Gigapet Pokemon wanting to expand its territories Certain Mobile phone carrier wants to upgrade their features to make their product more attractive. Broke cse grads looking for a job
Is this possible? TOTALLY!!! Interaction between the handheld device and server is simple Real time animation won’t be a problem Biggest concern: TIME See you Soon!!!