iBomb (or something like that)

Update: Site is live! Click Here (or go to http://gamersfeed.com)

Yes I need to work on the name :P.

I started work on a iPhone/iPod Touch web app in my free time the past couple of days. I have never made anything for the iPhone/iPod touch before so thought I would have some fun and give it a go.

Thought I would give a little preview of what I have been working on and what is to come. This is very early in development stages, but hopefully shouldn't take to long to get it out and in use.

So here are some screenshots of the character view page:

"If you scroll down a little you will see this list, and just lick to view one."

Oops :P, you could also click it if you like!

Looking really great so far. Are you thinking about making it open source?  I've never written an iPhone app, but I'm interested in doing so, and it'd be cool to study your app as you write it.  I'd also be a little more motivated and willing to help out with things here and there.

Looks great!  I would like the main page to look like the quick-bar on the iPhone or the bar in Sportacular.  It look alot like the iPod in the iPhone.

That looks fantastic. I've been anxious to see one of these pop up.

Just wanted to give an update and let everyone know that work is coming along great so far.

I have finished up the pages to view accessories, characters, companies, games, objects, and hard at work on the other pages.

I also have got a big chunk of the search done (which is the center of everything :P)

I will be looking for a few "beta" testers to go through the site and take a look around see if they run across any bugs, and make sure everything looks good, and give feedback. If you are interested please send me a PM and I will contact you when I am ready to have you break the site! (Please own a iPhone / iPod Touch)

NICE! I was hoping sombody would do this!

Wow, keep it up dude. If I an ipod or iphone i would get this in a heart beat.

"Will you be able to edit the wikis and post in forums?"

I'm not sure I would really want to edit a wiki article on my iPhone anyway.

"dsplayer1010 said:

"Will you be able to edit the wikis and post in forums?"

The API doesn't allow for either of those, so no.If anyone was going to make an app to do that, it would have to be the Whiskey Media guys."

So we got three different people working on three different apps?

The more the merrier I guess.

Alright, I am gonna go ahead and throw it out for everyone to start using. Still some minor things might need some work, but should be fully functional (except for the Bombcast section).

You can access it here (http://gamersfeed.com)!

There is still many features I will be adding (better filtering, advanced search, etc). But I hope everyone enjoys it, and gets some use out of it :).

If you see any bugs please be sure to email me at bugs@gamersfeed.com.

Sweet.

I do plan on doing some more mobile platforms since the site is modular (using a template engine).

It may be a possibility once I have everything running smooth.

So wait, is it out yet? It looks pretty awesome man. NIcely done

More importantly, will it cost anything to download?

Yea its out, this is actually a Web App, so just browse to it in Safari. http://gamersfeed.com

"Yea its out, this is actually a Web App, so just browse to it in Safari. http://gamersfeed.com"

Do you plan on doing something about those links? If a link points to http://i.gamersfeed.com/nintendo/65-90/ it should be possible to parse the URL to grab the ID and direct the user to the appropriate page on iBomb, no?
You'd have to keep track of stuff like 61=game, 65=company, and so on, but it would make things a lot easier for users who don't want to have to search it themselves or go to the site on their iPhone.

I sure do, that is next on my list once I get some time (hopefully tonight). That is just a temporary solution so I am not sending people to a 404 error.

Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming :).

Just an update. There was a change in the structure that the API returns results that broke my site, and I didn't even notice :P.

So everything should be up and running again, and hopefully hold you off until the official Giant Bomb app is released.

You've done a really nice job on the app! I stopped using it a while ago because for some reason it wasn't functioning on my iPod, but it seems to be working fine now.

Well I just pushed an update out.
 
It now supports the Bombcast and Videos, both you can watch/listen right from your iPhone or iPod Touch. Hope to do user reviews, new releases and some other things next.
 
http://i.gamersfeed.com

" @Freek: Do you still "plan on doing some more mobile platforms"? There seems to be demand for an Android app. "

Well user reviews are now active :)
 
Sample here:  User Reviews .

" @Freek: The scores displayed don't seem to account for the half stars that are possible with user reviews. And there appear to be some weird formatting bugs all around, most notably with some characters being turned into gibberish like "“". "

With many thanks to harris I was able to add full video support instead of relying just on the Youtube feed.
 
You can check out the videos here:  http://i.gamersfeed.com/browse/videos/ 

Whelp, since Whiskey Media is coming out with there own nice mobile version of the site for all there sites (WOOT!), I am gonna stop development on this. I was actually working on my own platform so I couldn't launch mobile sites for the other sites easily but don't see a reason now.
 
Will still leave this up and everything since I think the Whisky Media version will be part of the premium subscription.
 
Thanks to everyone that had an interest and has used the site!