The making of Tap Tap Dance, part of the popular iPhone Tap Tap Revenge series [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XmWPATbkeM

by doomlaser • 2 years ago

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ClassyJacket2• 2 years ago

This link is working!

doomlaser• 2 years ago

There is other discussion in the thread with the broken link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41157136

The main thing is the funny anecdote about Lua that I shared over there. I'll post it here too. We used Lua for all of the visual programming for the music tracks. This was not allowed by the 2008 App Store policies. We decided to just rename all our .lua files as .cfg (.config?) to obfuscate our rule bending. After the app blew up in popularity, Apple eventually reversed course on this rule.

Here's another fun link. This is Steve Jobs playing Tap Tap Revenge 3 during an iPhone keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXQT19gl1eg#t=14m50s

And here's a fun photo album of interesting stuff, our Palo Alto HQ, and more: https://photos.app.goo.gl/WDUfEV7ivAqyJ1rFA

ClassyJacket2• 2 years ago

Seeing the creative ways developers got around Apple's rules, which were even crazier back then, was interesting. I recall downloading HandyLight, a supposed app that lit up your screen in different colours... that was actually a secret mobile hotspot app that allowed wifi tethering before Apple did. Everyone had to scramble to download it in the narrow slice of time between word getting out what it did, and Apple removing it.

I had fun Jailbreaking too and installing Cycorder so I could record video on my iPhone 3g. Good times.

The making of Tap Tap Dance, part of the popular iPhone Tap Tap Revenge series [video]

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