Today we added a new Tower Defense game on Braineos! The objective is to defend the eggs of a golden dragon from some evil aliens. In order to build towers, you must earn cash … and to earn cash you need to answer questions from your flashcards. It’s harder than it sounds, and harder still [...] Read more »
A Braineos JSON API is now available! Now you can build your own games and apps which use Braineos flashcards. There are three open API methods: Deck Search, User Decks and View Deck. Continue reading to find out how to use them. Deck Search Description: Search for all the flashcard decks with ‘searchTerm’ in [...] Read more »
Thanks to your great feedback on Braineos, we’ve added some new features for maintaining your decks of flashcards. It is now possible to add a description to a deck and to edit all the deck’s information including name, description and tags. Read more »
Latest improvements to Braineos have gone live! Since our beta release in June, we’ve focused on performance enhancements and reducing defects in the application; thanks very much for your help in reporting issues you encountered when creating your flashcards and playing games. We think we’ve gone a long way towards improving the speed and reliability [...] Read more »
Braineos is in beta! We are very excited to bring you Meerkat, our beta release, which includes several exciting new features: - Challenges: dare your friends to beat you on your favorite decks- Following: build a network of friends interested in your subject area- Log in with OpenID: log in with your email account, no [...] Read more »
Another week, another Braineos iteration in the bag. We’ve released 0.5 Consolidating Kangaroo, which includes bug fixes kindly reported by our community as well as functionality for a new multiple choice game; we’ll be building the interface and releasing the game over the coming weeks. We’ve torn down a few card creating features, in order [...] Read more »
Braineos 0.4: Particular Possum (Paging Release) is now out! Over the course of the holiday period we focused – between mince pie and mulled wine binges – on further critical enhancements to the app: - Paging: all search results are retrieved in batches (Meg Smitley’s notes on paging in GAE are here)- URL slugs: much [...] Read more »
2010 is nearly here and it’s that time again, time to make new year’s resolutions. Braineos is all about self improvement and helping you to do more and better. The Braineos team is entering into the spirit, and will be using the app to prepare for the Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) 6 examination. What’s your resolution? [...] Read more »
Presenting Braineos 0.3, the Speedy Spider release. The past week we’ve focused on essential optimisations in order to enhance performance and balance the CPU load, while dealing with a few non critical bugs. We’d hoped to include pagination of search results, but we’ve pushed this until next week and will manage one more 2009 release, [...] Read more »
Braineos aims for quick iterations and on Sunday 13 Dec 2009 we released Braineos 0.2: Dangerous Dog. Thanks for all the super feedback on our Get Satisfaction community. Dangerous Dog includes:- Shuffle: mix up your quiz cards before playing games- Data import: you can now include commas and line breaks in your data when doing [...] Read more »
