Pult

Pult ( i.e "remote controller" in estonian ) is HTML5 app that turns any device with modern web browser into a game controller.

It's designed for FirefoxOS phones with touchscreens, but it works also on a desktop or on the RaspberryPI with keyboard.

Motivation

I love retrogames and a laptop is not the most comfortable gaming device when a game is streamed onto a bigger screen.

8bit games look much better on 27" screen or on a projector - pixels are bigger. So i built this app to get away from a laptop, play on a couch without being tangled into wires.

How it can help you?

Pult gives you opportunity to control old DOS or Nintendo games running on openEMU without buying extra hardware or being attached to a computer.

Being wireless gives you longer range than your average USB remote controller and with WIFI it reaches even further than your Wii or EggsBox controller.

Few things that make pult unique:

• it runs on a mobile & a desktop
• can share game without swapping remotes (for example a parent can help her kids out from darkest corner of Dungeons&Dragons)
• free as speech

Usage

Using the app should be as simple as following:

• FirefoxOS owner can install it from app-store, or from pult-server or installing manually with Firefox webIDE. Users of other mobileOS or desktop should open pult-server url with Firefox browser and follow instructions from there.

• check does a correct keymapping in an app configuration is activate. If there's no keymappings yet, then click "+" button on the right-top corner, it will show a mappings editor with a default configuration.

• activate your WIFI

• connect to pult-server by using its public IP.

Pult-server is web-server (written in Clojure) that listen incoming messages from pult-app and turns them into native keyboard actions.

Contributing

Pult is currently in alpha stage:

• full of technical debts - will be solved in the next release 0.2
• a lag is bigger than it should be - planned for 0.2
• design is made by programmer - will be solved in ?
• no localization yet
• better & more comprehensive documentation will be added after beta release;

It's my personal fun project and i made code publicly available so you can also learn more about Clojurescript and maybe fix some bugs, open tickets - it's much more effective than trolling on app-store;

The sourcecode is available on github https://github.com/tauho/pult.

Basic contribution workflow

• open issue or send message on Gitter
• Let's discuss about it.
• Forked it.
• Make changes on new branch;
• Dont forget to add tests.
• Make pull request.