{"id":87,"date":"2014-09-20T21:03:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T21:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nbodyphysics.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2015-03-06T12:41:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T12:41:04","slug":"thank-you-apple-for-rejecting-my-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbodyphysics.com\/blog\/thank-you-apple-for-rejecting-my-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Apple For Rejecting My App"},"content":{"rendered":"

One way I cling to the notion that I still know something about physics is to create oddball mobile physics apps. Since this is a side-project my goal is to spend most of the time on physics and less on the time-intensive UI tuning. I have moved to Unity and while learning Unity I decided to try and make a mobile game inspired by a spinning magnet office toy I had had for years.<\/p>\n

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When I look at something like this I wonder what might happen if I could change the number of arms, number of \u201cpropellers\u201d and a game\/simulation seems like a good way to explore these ideas.<\/p>\n

In my initial enthusiasm for Spinor I decided that adding leaderboards would be a good idea. It would encourage people to share their love of my awesome game and take me on the road to self-sufficiency as an indie developer. This meant that I needed to add code to track login state and provide options on the level select screen and game over screen. I found a way to spooge it in. What I had was \u201cworkable\u201d and I went ahead and started to submit Spinor for Android, BB10 and iOS.<\/p>\n

Google will take pretty much anything. Within hours my app was up on Google Play.<\/p>\n

Amazon approved it.<\/p>\n

Blackberry approved it.<\/p>\n

Apple rejected it.<\/p>\n

They rejected it on the basis that the level select and game over screens were \u201ctoo ugly\u201d.<\/p>\n

They were right.
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\nThe level select screen was one of those things that is not the fun part of developing the app, and I had just plopped in some touchable tiles and some hacky strings using the Unity OnGUI() approach. It *was* ugly. I then decided this was a great time to search the Unity asset store. I quickly discovered the Mad Level Manager and decided to grab it when it went on sale. The end result is a cleaner looking game that is more presentable.<\/p>\n

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The chaos of magnetically interacting systems *is* cool – and I enjoyed watching some of the odd interactions that result.<\/p>\n

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Next time I\u2019ll be submitting to Apple FIRST. They give the best feedback.<\/p>\n

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