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Need for an online service to find weekly timeslots to play?
razmoduck
Member Posts: 5
I'm working on the following idea for making it easier to arrange a play-session for a group of people, e.g., a RPG guild.
Each player enters the weekly time-slots where he is available for playing online, e.g., Mondays 20-24, Thursdays 19-24, Sundays 16-22. The service can then show the best times to play in the coming week and allow the users to send a mail to all that we are playing at a certain time. Optional addon - the players can enter a role, e.g., 'warrior' so everyone can see what the available group consist of.
I have not started the project yet, but I'm interested in the need for such a tool before I invest a couple of hundred hours in it.
Please tick your answer here:
http://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id=2203bf4f01a2cebf6
Each player enters the weekly time-slots where he is available for playing online, e.g., Mondays 20-24, Thursdays 19-24, Sundays 16-22. The service can then show the best times to play in the coming week and allow the users to send a mail to all that we are playing at a certain time. Optional addon - the players can enter a role, e.g., 'warrior' so everyone can see what the available group consist of.
I have not started the project yet, but I'm interested in the need for such a tool before I invest a couple of hundred hours in it.
Please tick your answer here:
http://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id=2203bf4f01a2cebf6
Comments
Doodle is for single-occurring events. In my tool, you just give your available times once and the system will show the available slots in the coming week (or two). Thus, you won't need to have someone propose a new set of possible times again and again.
Ideas are very welcome - I haven't written a single line of code yet :-)
Like E-Harmony.
But for MMO's.
I would almost be tempted......
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No - note quite. It's no a "dating" site for finding a guild, but a site where your guild members can note down their available times and then the system will help you to find the best time where your guild can play.
Me and some buddies already do this using Google Calendar. We will each log in and set out blocks on the Calendar to show which days (right down to the hour of that day as well) we are available, and when one of the days lines up thats the one we go with (or choose out of a couple).
Maybe your idea can still work... you'd just have to find an interesting way to tie in other features. Google calendar already does notifications/emails... also links a chat... maybe if it were all way easier to access from one screen? Maybe make it easy to add a games list too so you could sort by which games to play? (Would make it handy for a lan party too).