Welcome to the BabySmash! official feedback forum. Do you have an idea? Do you recognize a good idea when you see one? We want to hear from you!
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425 votes
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329 votes
Record better audio and lose the Text To Speech voice
Status: plannedIf I made it so you could record your own, would you have the patience to do all the shapes, colors and letters?
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262 votes
Discourage "smashing"
Make it only respond if a single key is pressed and not when banging the whole hand on the keyboard.
Status: plannedGood idea, I'll see if it's possible to detect multiple keypresses at the same time. What do you want it to do? BUZZ? Big "No!" or Red X?
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201 votes
internationalization
Support other languages
Status: plannedDo we need more than just internationalizing the Options Dialog? Don't we need Sounds as well? So language-specific SmashPacks?
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127 votes
ScreenSaver Mode
be able to have BabySmash listed in the Screen Savers dialogue box.
Status: plannedWorking on this...
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119 votes
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112 votes
Add live webcam support (maybe as screen background?)
My 2-year old loves BabySmash, but she also loves watching herself in the webcam on our laptop. How about combining the two? Maybe the webcam video could be lightened and used as the screen background.
Status: plannedGreat idea! I'll take a look! Like a mirror?
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66 votes
Play notes from songs on keypress
Rather than random sounds or speech on keypresses, how about an option to play notes from songs? For example, each press would play a note from the melody of a (presumably public domain) song, possibly from a midi file. I've seen a hand-puppet that barks out notes from "old macdonald" a... more
I love this idea. My son has a guitar that does the same thing. I'll give it some thought. Feel free to email me midi files of public songs.
At what point would we CHANGE songs?
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55 votes
Make exit keyboard command more difficult
My 1 yr old played for the first time today and she was out of the app and opening up multiple instances of Windows Media Center in about 5 minutes. Any thought about making the keyboard command to exit the app a little more difficult or involved (i.e., adding additional keys besides just Alt-F4)?
Status: plannedOK, she hit ALT-F4 fast? My concern is that if I make exiting harder that *parents* won't be able to get out. ;) (I've had this complaint before). However, your point is well taken. What's a good keystroke? CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-F4?
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50 votes
Find the key game
A new mode where a letter (or key) is displayed on the screen (with speech possibly) encouraging the baby to smash that particular key.
Trying to not make it frustrating or annoying to the baby (such that hitting other keys isn't a bad experience) but that there is a rewarding experience for hit... more
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47 votes
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41 votes
create a "portable" version
I'd really love a non-installer version I can run off a USB key, so I, uh, I mean Baby can play in places where I don't have permission to install software.
Status: plannedWorking on this...
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39 votes
phonetics instead of text to speech.
instead of the voice to speech use actual phonetic sounds.
Status: plannedAre you saying like "ah" rather than a long "a" in order to encourage reading?
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36 votes
Show letters on MouseDown instead of MouseUp
My kid presses the keys and holds them down, waiting for the graphics to display. It isn't until you let go that the images show. This confuses her dearly.
Hm...interesting point. I'm using a global keyboard hook, not a KeyUp event, but I'll try!
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35 votes
multilanguage
enable seeing letters in other languages such as hebrew
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32 votes
"Playtime is over" or "Time for baby smash! to sleep"
My 18mo son LOVES baby smash! so much that it's impossible to get him off. Other than just turning off the machine, the only thing that will get him to stop is to convince him that baby smash! has to take a nap.
I think it would be great if there was an animation similar to the closing sequen... more
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31 votes
Create a version for LINUX!
cross platform is the cool thing to do....
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29 votes
allow user selected images as shape backgrounds
allow user to select images to use for shape backgrounds. e.g. I could select pictures of our kids to display back to them as background images.
Status: plannedI like this idea...so instead of gradients, randomly select pictures from a folder?
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28 votes
disable "Power" and "Sleep" keyboard buttons
My keyboard has Power, Sleep, and Wake Up buttons for the system, and the whole idea of this app is to keep toddlers from being able to do dangerous things like that, can these please be disabled?
Surprisingly, this is not possible with those exact three buttons. Vista will not allow anyone to prevent the system shutting down. I've had to cover these buttons.
UPDATE: I've looked into this, and it turns out that you can go into Windows "PowerOptions" and change the option for "When The Power Button is Pressed - Do This" to "Do Nothing." Maybe if I told the Parent that as the app starts up?
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28 votes
Connect mouse position to midi
As the mouse moves the tones go up and down the scale. You could use random instrument voices.
