Time for some bit of transparency. We released our game, Not a Clone last Thursday, but that journey wasn’t without some bumps. As you would expect from a satirical game, we did receive a rejection from Apple once, and had to make a few minor changes to the game so they would approve it on the AppStore. Their concern was that our app mimicked the home screen and AppStore too well. For reference, here are the two screens in question:
In response, we’ve made the following changes:
- Skip the starting animation, and jump right to the end of it.
- Make all the icons squares.
As such, the two new screens looks like as follows:
Fortunately, that’s all that we needed to do. We were surprised ourselves.
There’s also been a long lull before we started making weekly updates again a few weeks ago. We were actually spending most of that time asking professional help on legal matters. We didn’t think it was particularly interesting for most people. Still, it did lead to this funny joke on the start screen:
And hey, it gave us a little time to add in an Easter Egg as part of the completion bonus! Have you found it yet? Let us know!
