I was seriously, I kid you not, dreaming about golden tickets while I napped at around 4:30pm this afternoon. Tuesday I had submitted my registration to attend Apple’s WWDC 2015 conference in San Francisco (June 8-12). Acceptance (or rejection) of my submission was now up to Apple’s lottery process.
That would explain the golden ticket dreams I guess.
I awoke with one thought in my head, “Apple said to let my bank know that my card might be charged for the registration fee.”
As promised, I will get into some of the nitty gritty details of creating a successful app in this post, but as you can imagine, I won’t be able to cover everything.
However, I will complete this series of posts as quickly as possible and give you as many resources as possible to turn to.
I realize we haven’t even scratched the surface of what exactly it takes to create an app, such as what language to use, what design tools to use, etc., etc.
I assure you I will get to those, but I need to continue to give you a broader overview first.
Let’s start with an exercise.
Many people approach the idea of creating an app with the following belief, “If I create an app and price it at one dollar, if 1,000,000 people buy it, I’ll be a millionaire.”
So you wanna make a mobile app? Excellent! Welcome to the exciting world of app development!
There are a lot of great reasons to create your own app. Perhaps you have a killer idea or a need which no one has created an app to fulfill.
Perhaps you’ve heard of the large sums of money independent developers have earned in just months, with just a few employees.
The 13 employees at Instagram shared a $100 million stake when Instagram was bought by Facebook.
Donkey Kong Country (DKC) was released on November 21, 1994 for the Super Nintendo system. I bought it the week it was released and was absolutely enthralled.
One level in particular, “Snow Barrel Blast” still stands out in my mind as perhaps the perfect combination of beautiful graphics, fabulous level design, spot-on gameplay, and rich, atmospheric music.
I’m incredibly surprised that one of the most enjoyable development tasks for our upcoming iOS app has been localization.
To many, the term localization is defined as translating an app into another language. Yes, translation is part of localization, but translation alone would be internationalization as opposed to localization.
We’re incredibly busy working to bring our newest iOS app to market. We’re somewhat stingy with details at this time, but I can tell you four exciting details about this project:
Personally, point number 4 excites me the most. We hope to have the game ready in time for the launch of the Apple Watch.
Stay tuned.
Here I go again. Same framework, new features.
When we created Spirit Story Box* in 2013, I used the Cocos2D game engine to handle the graphics and particle effects. It was a great choice to pull off some of the eye candy, but integrating native iOS views (like the tableview and carousel) proved to be a tricky marriage between two different methodologies.