An iPhone App a Day - for 30 Days
by Dave Calabrese · 06/09/2009 (12:30 am) · 11 comments
Sometimes, you just gotta do something a little crazy.
No, not like doing body-shots off your uncle Henrick.
Something crazier.
I submit for your approval - An App a Day, for 30 days. I have decided out of a stroke of insanity (or possibly just from a stroke) to create and submit to Apple an iPhone App each day for the next 30 days. And for most if not all of these, I will be using the iTGB game engine.
I will be posting the rules I intend to follow tomorrow as June 9th is the first day of this personal challenge to myself. Keep up with me here: app-a-day.blogspot.com/
And if anyone has any coffee/Red Bull/Amp... feel free to send it my way. I suspect I'm going to need a lot of it.
No, not like doing body-shots off your uncle Henrick.
Something crazier.
I submit for your approval - An App a Day, for 30 days. I have decided out of a stroke of insanity (or possibly just from a stroke) to create and submit to Apple an iPhone App each day for the next 30 days. And for most if not all of these, I will be using the iTGB game engine.
I will be posting the rules I intend to follow tomorrow as June 9th is the first day of this personal challenge to myself. Keep up with me here: app-a-day.blogspot.com/
And if anyone has any coffee/Red Bull/Amp... feel free to send it my way. I suspect I'm going to need a lot of it.
#2
06/09/2009 (1:41 am)
Awesome. Digg him up people, this deserves attention! 
#3
06/09/2009 (3:21 am)
Lets see how this turns out, I hope pretty well. Keep us posted! 
#4
06/09/2009 (5:52 am)
Make it 7 days and then see... 
#5
06/09/2009 (7:46 am)
This is crazy... Are you looking for application donations by chance?
#6
@Novack: You think I'll make it 7 days? I hope I make it THAT long! ;)
@Patrick (RollerJesus): Crazy like an iron window. I'm not accepting applications, but I am accepting application ideas.
06/09/2009 (8:09 am)
@AndrewOsborne, @Konrad Kiss, @Tuomas Kaukoranta: Thanks, guys! This should get interesting, no doubt! :)@Novack: You think I'll make it 7 days? I hope I make it THAT long! ;)
@Patrick (RollerJesus): Crazy like an iron window. I'm not accepting applications, but I am accepting application ideas.
#7
Tic Tac Toe
Connect the Dots
Flash cards
A top that a swipe would get spinning.
Building Blocks
Particle fireworks - tap for effect.
06/09/2009 (10:28 am)
Some ideas...Tic Tac Toe
Connect the Dots
Flash cards
A top that a swipe would get spinning.
Building Blocks
Particle fireworks - tap for effect.
#8
06/09/2009 (1:26 pm)
Wow, craziness... good luck :P 
#9
06/09/2009 (9:10 pm)
Fun stuff. I had a goal for an app a week for a while. I'm on 3rd app submitted in 7 weeks.... didn't quite make it! 
#11
It takes me about an hour at minimum to make a game template.
Another 10 hours to make a prototype (if I'm lucky), 30 hours to make the graphics (again... if I'm lucky), and another few hours to paste it together.
06/13/2009 (2:45 pm)
A game a day?It takes me about an hour at minimum to make a game template.
Another 10 hours to make a prototype (if I'm lucky), 30 hours to make the graphics (again... if I'm lucky), and another few hours to paste it together.
#12
But now, 2 years later, I can say that I have made a profit off those games, which I in total didn't spend more than about 12 combined hours on. Profitable games don't need huge development cycles - they just need lots of caffeine and a few crazy ideas! :)
03/17/2011 (2:45 pm)
Since this hasn't been updated for awhile... while I didn't get to 30 apps in 30 days, I did get to about 6 apps in 2 and a half weeks. The overwhelming amount of feedback and responses from the experiment resulted in so much contract work that I didn't have the time to release any more games!But now, 2 years later, I can say that I have made a profit off those games, which I in total didn't spend more than about 12 combined hours on. Profitable games don't need huge development cycles - they just need lots of caffeine and a few crazy ideas! :)
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