Gaming Centre

Gaming Centre

1. Profiles

   • Customization
     • Custom Background Colour
     • Option to chose games and consoles that you own
     • Custom Image as profile picture
     • You will need to specify if you want your account on private or public.
       • Private means people can not see your posts unless they accept a friend requyest that you can send them
       • Public means anyone can friend you and view your post at any time without a friend request from them
   • Signing in
     • You can sign in with gaming profiles
       • Xbox - Gamerpic and details automatically transfered
       • Playstation - Info transfered over
     • Automatically signs in when returning to the app
     • Need to state your age and D.O.B when signing up to let the app know what chat rooms you can go in to.
   • Recent activity saved for easier access
   • Emoticons
     • Custom made ones can be imported from images on the device (Max. of 5)
   • Friends has own menu link where you can see all the people who follow you, who you follow and all the friend requests you've sent or recieved

2. Features

   • Public chat mode
     • Each game has own chat servers for around the world
       • Modes
         • Kid Modes - For Children under 13 years old, no bad language or pictures. Just people talking about the game they're playing.
         • Tennager Mode - For people over 13 years old. No bad language allowed but images are able to be put in the chat
         • Adult Mode - You must have confirmed your age in your profile to use this page. No rules.
     • A chat bot is used to stop bad language at get players banned for a day if using bad language in teen or child mode as well as images in child mode. If this happen 10 times then they will get banned from the app. An alert will tell you how many times you have left until getting banned from app on entry when screen is loading
   • Search
     • Able to catogorise between people and games for easier searching
   • Private chat mode
     • You are able to create a private chat room where you and your friends can talk to you without the stress of other people
     • You will need to invite your friends using the bar under the header saying 'invite'
       • People can only join if they are your friends so you will need to except their request for them to join

3. Layout

   • Bar at the top including Name of current area and also a search box
     • Green with white writing
   • Colour Sceme
     • White Background with images and black writing
   • Able to scroll through the main page
   • Live chat mode just shows current writing and deletes anything above the screen limit unless sensored by chat bot.
     • Type box at the bottom - When clicked it brings up standard phone type box
     • Special emoticons added when entering chat rooms for specific games
       • Custom emoticons can also be used in chat
     • Emoticons added if you are signed in with a xbox or playstation account
   • Main page layout
     • Main screen displays recent friend posts aswell as game updates on games that you follow. There is also a recent bar underneath the main header to help you get to the recent things you've been on.

4. Friends

   • You can find friends via searching in the search box
     • You click on there profile and send a friend request. You will have to wait for them to accept your request unless they've turned their account on to public.
   • If you have people added as friends you will see their posts on the home screen and also what chat rooms they are in so you can join them.

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