u/gordonmcdowell

As per usual once I finish the purchase, I don’t have a good way of getting the visuals.

If anyone else can confirm that would be great. I did spend $20 (despite already owning a season) is a great show except for that one season which is just meh.

Maybe this community could use a Canadian deal flare? Also, I think we need a TV 4K flare option.

https://tv.apple.com/ca/show/community/umc.cmc.4nernxq22u93vwrjpt6kfk3m5

This was a direct flight. Yes, Calgary/Toronto flies over Michigan.

During most of time over USA (over Lake Superior) nothing worked, usual Canadian AirPods Pro (3) settings experience.

WestJet mapping would be accurate, but iPhone seemed unaware of where it was. I’m not sure why. Finally over some land Google Maps was aware of my location, and Settings / APP3 (my name for my AirPods) suddenly included Hearing Assistance under Hearing Health. (It is NOT inside Accessibility any more like older documentation suggests.)

I don’t know if that difficulty in me getting to Hearing Assistance was firmware downloading. I don’t know how GPS works either, apparently, as I thought GPS would work during the whole flight.

At the moment it worked I had free WestJet WiFi on, and also cellular data on. (Was toggling everything.)

Anyone trying this, I suggest you have a fake hearing test image (such as I included) so that you can plug SOMETHING into Hearing Assistance… Until someone can chime in no hearing test needs to sit inside the phone or else we lose this feature when re-entering Canada.

I dare not turn off Hearing Assistance at the moment. I can’t use the AirPods as they now sound like crap (and might damage my ears?) until I can run my own hearing test.

Can’t run a hearing test in the plane, too much noise.

If anyone else tries this please share any other notes. I was hoping to come up with simple instructions for family members who also have APP2 and APP3. Going so far as submitting fake hearing test results might be unnecessary… would love to know minimal steps actually required as opposed to my paranoid keeping-wrong-hearing-test approach. (I can add a proper hearing test before deleting the bogus one, I just need a quiet space to take the test.)

Assuming everyone is familiar with Joust, I think the multiplayer changes I've made will be interesting to anyone with an APPLE TV... yes, all 5 of you out there. A hardware Apple TV set-top box.

Apple TV supports up to 4 bluetooth controllers (typically XBox or PS4), but only ships with a single Siri Remote. A typical multiplayer game will max-out at 4 players because most games can't be played with Siri Remote. Joust, being a 3-bit input game (Left, Right, Flap) CAN be played perfectly fine with Siri Remote so can support 5 players via Bluetooth control.

What I think is innovative controller support is Joustine also runs a web server, and anyone on the same LAN can follow the on-screen QR code to a javascript client offering a simple LEFT RITE FLAP interface. (Which I'm not sure is out-of-scope of this subreddit, this IS a LAN feature, but is only needed to get beyond 5 players if one has game controllers.)

So it is both a conventional local multiplayer, the console being "Apple TV" and also a LAN game of minimal footprint... no app install needed. One CAN install the app for every client, but absolutely no need to.

As far as I know, this javascript-client is unique on Apple TV to Joustine? Think such flexibility is important to the platform because so few people buy controllers. This approach gets to full-on 2 player joust with just either a single game controllers, or a single (via LAN) iPhone of any sort. Anyone who owns an Apple TV will certainly own an iPhone.

Game is completely free for 2 players, giving a classic Joust experience.

Multiplayer innovations (beyond 3+ players) are that eggs are skipped over in favor of riders who can move about... you get knocked off your bird, you become a rider looking to jump off a platform onto another bird from above. Riders don't last long, as anything other than another player will kill them. But it does enable much more co-op than just not killing each other in original Joust.

Also, game does not end until last player runs out of lives. Further multiplayer innovation is Ghost state. (Inspired by PixelJunk Shooter not ending until both players die.) Ghosts appear where a player lost their last life, and can be ushered upwards to Heaven by a mounted player.

With multiple players, it can become a crazy mess of interaction, but following the extremely basic rules of Joust. I mean... don't get knocked off your bird from above, that's all you really need to know.

The game also runs on Apple iPhone and iPad and Mac. That wasn't really my original intent, as it is Apple TV that is underserved by Siri Remote + iPhone multiplayer, but Apple TV purchases are a world apart from reading Reddit. So if you buy it (free) right now on any reading-reddit platform, it can be later downloaded onto your Apple TV. (And all Apple devices can also host multiplayer, but I don't think is as fun without the shared big-screen experience of Apple TV.)

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/joustine/id6761520201

Please let me know what you think. There's 100 levels with moving platforms, so if there's some weird Joust platform idea you'd like to see implemented I can stick it in any level I'm not fond of.