For as active as iPhone application development community is, achieving success in iTunes has been an elusive affair for those who participate in this vertical. The two main obstacles presented to anyone who wants to create an iPhone applications are: one, finding resources/developers with the right skill set; and two, marketing the application after the application has been submitted. The bad news is Apple keeps iTunes a black box. Unless your application has been reviewed or mentioned on review sites or blogs, no one will be able to find your application outside of iTunes. This makes marketing your application relatively difficult. Here’s the good news: the cost to build an iPhone application should come down substantially as it no longer requires a developer with an exclusive knowledge to a specific technology to build an application for iPhone.
In compliance with Apple’s seemingly random censorship, the Campaign Trail is finally ready for sale. After swapping out the original avatars that resemble somewhat like Obama, Mccain, Clinton, and Palin, the folks at Apple finally relented. Here are the altered and original game screenshots:
Basically, we changed out some hair and skin tones, hairstyle, accessories. But I am still floored by the fact that the application was rejected the …
For the most part, I would like to believe the Apple employees in general have pretty good heads on their shoulders. If anything, you would have expected some open-mindedness from a company that claims to be dynamic and innovative in nature. Sadly, the opposite is exactly what we’ve experienced from the folks at Apple.
No one will argue that last presidential election is historically insignificant. In many different ways, the entire election campaign, …
There is very little doubt to the historical significance of 2008 presidential campaign. Not unlike most people, we at RightSprite are also raveled in this political intrigue with unabated enthusiasm. In the spirit of this event, we felt that we should create a game to commemorate this historical landmark. And we call it Campaign Trail.
The concept of Campaign Trail came from a popular game Puzzle Quest. Campaign Trail utilizes a very …