Can you make toggles? Looking at your menu, it seems like that would condense things a lot.
As you predicted, the first need is a blank box to input lists.
Next is the menu of prompt lists. I would like to reconstruct ours as much as possible. You already have a great set of lists, though, so it's not a disaster if we can't get them all back.
Consider also size of list. To make a 5x5 card with no repeats from one list, the list needs at least 24 prompts. Looking at yours, they're often 21. Some of ours, like Cottoncandy, have many dozens of prompts. That's good for variety, so people can play the same list repeatedly without getting all the same prompts.
Configuration options: "Allow repeated values for lists with fewer than 24 items?" would make those shorter lists a great deal more useful.
The original one had options for background, text, and border colors or transparent. I don't see that as a top need, although it's nice if easy to do.
Card size went by squares of 1 through 7. That's super important. Your single-prompt option is basically the 1x1 but other than that it's set on 5x5.
Another toggle for center space went free space, wild card, normal prompt, other. That's extremely useful. It's not quite required. I remember it being a little tricky to code because the process has to automate skipping it for cards that don't have a center (1 and the evens).
One thing we always wanted that didn't quite make it into that generator, that you have a version of, is combining prompts. You've got something very close in "X met Y at Z" (two characters, one location). What I'd love to see is "character + location + (action, object, etc.)" John on the beach running for his life. Mary in a spaceship with a gorilla. We had some prompt lists that would mix great but only if it was possible to insert each one in a specific position. Like types of family, time period, emotions.
If we wind up having to rebuild our generator into yours, I'd be happy to put out a crowdfunding call for you.
Thank you!
Okay, here is the Wayback Machine's copy of Magibrain's Bingo Card Generator:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180302161652/http://an.owomoyela.net/fun/bingo_generator
Can you make toggles? Looking at your menu, it seems like that would condense things a lot.
As you predicted, the first need is a blank box to input lists.
Next is the menu of prompt lists. I would like to reconstruct ours as much as possible. You already have a great set of lists, though, so it's not a disaster if we can't get them all back.
Consider also size of list. To make a 5x5 card with no repeats from one list, the list needs at least 24 prompts. Looking at yours, they're often 21. Some of ours, like Cottoncandy, have many dozens of prompts. That's good for variety, so people can play the same list repeatedly without getting all the same prompts.
Configuration options:
"Allow repeated values for lists with fewer than 24 items?" would make those shorter lists a great deal more useful.
The original one had options for background, text, and border colors or transparent. I don't see that as a top need, although it's nice if easy to do.
Card size went by squares of 1 through 7. That's super important. Your single-prompt option is basically the 1x1 but other than that it's set on 5x5.
Another toggle for center space went free space, wild card, normal prompt, other. That's extremely useful. It's not quite required. I remember it being a little tricky to code because the process has to automate skipping it for cards that don't have a center (1 and the evens).
One thing we always wanted that didn't quite make it into that generator, that you have a version of, is combining prompts. You've got something very close in "X met Y at Z" (two characters, one location). What I'd love to see is "character + location + (action, object, etc.)" John on the beach running for his life. Mary in a spaceship with a gorilla. We had some prompt lists that would mix great but only if it was possible to insert each one in a specific position. Like types of family, time period, emotions.
If we wind up having to rebuild our generator into yours, I'd be happy to put out a crowdfunding call for you.