Megan Elizabeth Morris (aka MEM, Megan the M.) is a bonafide professional catalyst and adventurer. As the Ideaschema instigator, orchestrator and autodidact, she is hopelessly addicted to Making Things Happen.Why on earth is there no “ball pit” app for the iPhone? We searched and searched, but found nothing.
I guess we’ll just need to built a real one. But still… I’d pay money, app developers. I really think I would. Let’s think about this just for a moment, shall we?
This is all xkcd’s fault, of course.
What could a ball pit app do?
Okay, I know this is ridiculous. I don’t care. I’m going to explore the subject anyway.
You could drop items into the ball pit.
You could lose small animals in the ball pit, and click with your mouse to poke around to try to find them.
You could send smaller animals into the ball pit to be eaten by the previously mentioned animals, and hear sounds of crunching doom as they are devoured.
Completely different tack: There could be small entertaining children in the ball pit, and poking them could elicit different reactions (like in Pocket God).
You know, I think my initial impulse was flawed. We just need a ball pit version of Pocket God!
You could alter the color scheme of the ball pit.
Poking the middle of the ball pit could cause balls to fly out and hit the “camera” / “inside” of the screen, making little pocking noises. It would be like a bubble wrap app, but of course ball pits are far more entertaining than bubble wrap.
You could drop an explosive into the ball pit.
Or the whole app could be specifically about constructing your own physical ball pit — helping you to calculate the necessary purchases and pricing and space/placement logistics, how many people could be accommodated, and a suggested set of rules for your ball pit depending on how concerned you are about grossness. Once you’ve set your parameters and done your figuring, the app would visualize the resulting ball pit.
And then you could play with it!
Someone had better let me know if something like this exists — or is subsequently built. I’ve worked up a real itch. Is there a Chuck E. Cheese around here? I don’t imagine they’re open on Christmas…
Added later: Why can’t we have a ball pit app… but instead of filled with colored balls… it’s filled with… iPhones?? Would that not be awesomely… something? Tell me that wouldn’t be entertaining.
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