Jovelyst

Jovelyst (this is the old version: click here for the new version) is an open source programming language used for developing dual user tutor/student Android apps. It is also used (potentially) for developing single and dual player Android games. The Jovelyst game/app editor runs on Android, Windows and Linux. The students pay the tutors by credit card or PayPal, and the tutors pay 10 percent to Jovelyst.com and 5 percent to the lesson-writers.

Both game players, as well as both the tutor and the student, must be at the same physical location since the respective Android devices communicate using Bluetooth. Some tutors choose to use the web-based whiteboard, interacting with students remotely. Jovelyst rhymes with novelist and is implemented in Java.

Game Engine

The Jovelyst game engine has the lowest priority of all Jovelyst-related projects. If and when it becomes operational, Jovelyst will have a freemium business model. Subscribers pay $10 per year and have access to web-based versions of the dual player games. They also have access to paid games and games which include in-game purchases. Yet another feature accessible by subscribers is the ability to interact remotely with volunteer tutors. Those tutors use a web-based whiteboard. Finally, subscribers can deploy games/apps to the Jovelyst app store.

Join Our Team

Jovelyst is a completely open source project. If Jovelyst makes any money, most of the profits will be allocated to funding a website for consumer/survivors called Psyvaspace.org. Therefore your labour, as a Jovelyst team member, will help support Psvyaspace members.

Lystagger Syntax

Screen layout definition language. Doubles as HTML replacement for Jovelyst web development framework.

Tags:
- (tag)
- (tag; body)
- (tag (fld val)*; body)
Body:
- text
- (; text)*
- ((fld val)*; text)*
Notation:
- * repeats
- a; b; c = (a)(b)(c)

Android Keyboard

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
Q	W	E	R	T	Y	U	I	O	P
A	S	D	F	G	H	J	K	L	;
SH	Z	X	C	V	B	N	M	&	BK
SP	(	)	-	"	\	#	:	FN	CR

SH - Shift
SP - Space
BK - Backspace
CR - Enter
FN - Functions
& - Symbols

History

I am Mike, the founder, and got the idea for Jovelyst on Canada's 150th birthday. I was at my brother's cottage and used the memo feature of my phone to make a to do list. (Prior to April 2017 I had never owned a cell phone.) Realizing that a phone can actually do more than just call/text, I then got the idea of using the programming language I had previously designed and begun implementing, as it was ideal for a small screen. I then resurrected my old games program idea (make your own games), just for Android.

About Me

I am Mike Hahn, the founder of Jovelyst.com. I was previously employed at Brooklyn Computer Systems as a Delphi Programmer and a Technical Writer (I worked there between 1996 and 2013). At the end of 2014 I quit my job as a volunteer tutor at Fred Victor on Tuesday afternoons, where for 5 years I taught math, computers, and literacy. I'm now a volunteer math/computer tutor at West Neighbourhood House. My hobbies are reading quora.com questions/answers and the news at cbc.ca. About twice a year I get together with my sister Cathy who lives in Victoria. She comes here or I go out there usually in the summer. Prior to starting Jovelyst I used to lie on the couch a lot, not being very active. Now I'm busy most of the time. I visit my brother Dave once a month or so and I also visit my friends Main and Steph once or twice a month.

Contact Info

Mike Hahn
Founder
Jovelyst.com
2495 Dundas St. West
Ste. 515
Toronto, ON M6P 1X4
Canada

Phone: 416-533-4417
Email: hahnbytes (AT) gmail (DOT) com
Web: www.hahnbytes.com

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