Hello,

Several people who've seen me using Skritter say it's mesmerising to watch someone write characters. What I'd really like (and Xmas is so far away!) is a back-seat mode, so I can set people (friends near and far) up with a URL whereby they can watch me skrittering.

Doesn't have to be the skritter user's strokes, could be the formal strokes, but paced to when the skritter user is entering them...

Would make great eye candy!

This would require a lot of work, unless I'm missing some trick. If we did it, we could do some very cool things, but how would we do it? Hmm. I will think on it. Depending on we did it, it might be the same as a multiplayer mode.

Regardless, it's probably not high priority due to the difficulty.

I understand about the priority. I'm thinking of some kind of "read-only" slaved mode. Also, as well as being a wonderfully cosmic screen-saver, teachers could use it to see how their students are going.

Nick, you've talked about Skritter being inspired by the Nintendo DS. So yeah, why not have a Skritter versus mode? Think Dr. Mario time trial... if you went real fast you could remove squigs from your opponent's screen, or add extra words to their queue...

Multiplayer gaming at its finest!

How about a multiplayer game where you can beat others by wrinting certain set of chars quicker than the opponents? Or being quickest in going through randomly selected chars from HSK1,2...

I love all of these "game" ideas. For me i did my best on skritter when i had some friendly competition. Really helped with diligence.

I've been thinking along these lines lately... I'm not sure how many could watch at one time, but on Skype one can share a portion of the screen as a video feed. I've used this to show people how it works, my mistakes included.

The game idea would be quite cool. Google has some cool games like name the location on google earth, or playing against someone else to tag a photo. Of course they are also in many cases getting you to have fun doing their work for them.

Have you tried the GWT set of tools released by Google or the Wave sessions which do allow concurrency on a character by character mode?

I've not tried coding with these but reckon the core code is there if it can produce the wave