Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets App Engine Meetup

Fluffy Puffy Cloud PetsBirthday: Feb 22, 2009 Sun

Birth Place: Google campus, Mountain View CAGrandparent: Weekend App

Google App Engine MeetupPalo Alto CAMar 17, 2009

Why Clouds?• Cloud concept is coming from Audrey

• “Fluffy” = Cute

• “Puffy” = Cute

• Join the “Environmental Movement”

• Healthy Clouds = balanced ecosystem

• More Rains = More Cooling

• Generate awareness on Global Warming

http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.comFluffy Puffy Cloud Pets

http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com


Cloud Parents• Audrey Roy, Pretty Cloud Officer

• Bess Ho, Pinky Cloud Officer

• Waleed Abdulla, Weekend Cloud Officer

• Dave Doolin, Admin Cloud Officer

• Jeff Roberts, Architect Cloud Officer

• Hitesh Parashar, Money Cloud Officer

• Bill Overstreet, Virtual Cloud Officer

• Nicolas Kokkalis, Idea Cloud Officer




Cloud Machine• Extreme Agile Development Cycle

• Work on the same table

• Divide the work

• Design & Layout

• Product Definition & Application Design

• API Integration & Server-side

• Database Design

• Server Admin

• Acceptance Testing





Adobe IllustratorHand-draw

Drawing Tablet

Sleepless Hours

Art of Making Clouds



3 Day MadnessFRI SAT SUN

Team Building

Product Definition

Select TechnologyMySpace

PHP/MySQLOfferpal

Server SVNDatabase

Business Logic

MySpaceCanvas/Profile/Home Surfaces

JavaScriptHTML/CSS

MySpace v0.8Orkut v0.8

APIs

Offerpal API

Optimize Surfaces

Acceptance Testing




Sun Twilight• Bite Me if we get rejected again?

• Happy Ending

• Launch Official at MySpace 6:15PM

• Singing and Dancing in the RAIN

• RAIN IN SPAIN STAY MAINLY IN THE PLAINS

• DEMO at 8PM




Sun Night Delivery


• Let’s fluff ‘n puff a virtual cloud pet! Get together to adopt, care and nurture pet cloud, let it grow and then rain on someone. Hey, that’s a cool way to save our planet. Show your carin’ and sharin’ side by loving this little cutie. Adopt and get going. Feed it water and it would swell with affection. Give it colored water and see its beautiful character. After eating the animal crackers it cracks up to shape like camels and hippos.

Sky (Virtual Pet)Shop (Virtual Good)

Gifts (Invite)Stars (Virtual Currency)






10 from Hungry (Feed)10 from Loneliness (Fluff)

= 20 Happiness (Daily Max)

Gift = InvitationMySpace allow to invite

1 friend per click Food (Feeding)Water, Purple Water,

Animal CrackerEmotion (Fluffing)

Fluffy Hand

Virtual Good


Stars = Virtual

Currency

Drops = Points



Invitations / Gifts


Design DecisionEngaging Invitationvia Virtual Good

FREE Gifts

Technical ChallengeMySpace

v0.7 != v0.8



Virtual Currency


Design DecisionIntegrate Social App with Virtual

CurrencyOfferpal



MySpace Platform Day 1

MySpace Platform Day 3


Weekend Launch 2 Weeks After LaunchMySpace Container

Not ScalablePHP / MySQL (LAMP)Working PrototypeMinimal Animation

2 GiftsSVN

DomainFluffy Puffy Cloud Blog

Fluffy Puffy Website

ScalableGoogle App EnginePython / Datastore

Add GraphicsAdd AnimationsImprove Scoring

Improve Installation PageAdd up to 9 GiftsProject Mgmt Wiki

Add Facebook GroupAdd Facebook Fan Page

Add Twitter






Joy Luck Club

• over 3,000 users in less than 7 days

• move from private shared web server

• move to Google App Engine

• Continue to work for fun

• Happy Donut at Wee Hours




Fluffy Puffy Cloud PetsOpen for ideas FROM YOU

Cloud Sky BackgroundsActivity FeedsImprove UIFocus on UXP

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