{"id":51,"date":"2013-12-04T19:44:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T19:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2014-01-02T20:32:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T20:32:22","slug":"unique-our-first-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Unique: our first app!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/unique-a-winter-game\/id772369252?ls=1&#038;mt=8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/w.3pxh.com\/static\/img\/appstore.png\" alt=\"Get it on the app store\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learning Corona has been lots of fun, especially given how many opportunities it&#8217;s making for us to create new ideas quickly. In one of our game brainstorming sessions last week we came up with a game which we&#8217;re calling Unique, in which snowflakes fall from the sky and the player tries to collect as many as possible without ever catching the same one twice.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to sleep one night for the snowflakes in my brain, I got to coding up a prototype of Unique and the next day we pulled an app-shipping marathon where we created (or took via creative commons) all of the media (background music, sound effects, 50 unique snowflakes, custom font) and put the gameplay together in a polished and finished app. The result is a wonderful and ambient meditative experience which tests your memory, patience, and intuition.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vyv6iZcBUos\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>We submitted it to the app store and are waiting for Apple to review it and we&#8217;ll follow up here when it goes live!<\/p>\n<p>In the future we&#8217;d like to extend the gameplay and add a few more features and we&#8217;re thinking of instituting an &#8220;app download stretch goal&#8221; type system, where if we hit various download milestones we&#8217;ll add new features.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, enjoy the winter and the snow! (Even if it&#8217;s only simulated on your phone because you live in California.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Corona has been lots of fun, especially given how many opportunities it&#8217;s making for us to create new ideas quickly. In one of our game brainstorming sessions last week we came up with a game which we&#8217;re calling Unique, in which snowflakes fall from the sky and the player tries to collect as many &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/?p=51\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unique: our first app!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.3pxh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}