daGrind » Tomato Factory http://dagrind.com Technologically Unchallenged Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:28:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Sheeple On The iPad http://dagrind.com/2010/02/03/sheeple-ipad/ http://dagrind.com/2010/02/03/sheeple-ipad/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:32:50 +0000 Todd Casey http://dagrind.com/?p=191 Like all of the other iPhone developers, I too have been scheming planning how I can take advantage of the iPad with existing and new applications. As for my company, Tomato Factory, we plan on going down the Universal Applications route discussed here. The lack of information in the current iPhone SDK 3.2 beta seed is a bit frustrating. Also, the lack of information around when developers will have access to submit iPad native or universal applications is frustrating. I am sure that Apple doesn't want a horde of overly eager developers to submit iPad native applications without having ever tested their applications on a physical device. As all experienced iPhone developers know, the simulator is not the same as the physical device. I typically do not even bother using the simulator.

I decided to see how my application Sheeple looked on the iPad simulator. Here are screenshots of Sheeple running in both native iPhone 480x320 resolution (left) and scaled 2x resolution (right).


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It really doesn't look so bad at first glance, but it won't be long before users will not accept this compatibility mode. As soon as developers are taking advantage of the additional pixels they have access to on the iPad, this compatibility mode will probably be something that we will see less and less of. I am developing several games currently and we are using vector graphics, so creating a universal application should be a very straight forward process.

]]> http://dagrind.com/2010/02/03/sheeple-ipad/feed/ 0 Tomato Factory http://dagrind.com/2010/02/03/tomato-factory/ http://dagrind.com/2010/02/03/tomato-factory/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:32:09 +0000 Todd Casey http://dagrind.com/?p=121 The past year has been extremely busy with the birth of my son, moving back to Texas, and getting into iPhone development. In July of 2009 I started an iPhone game development company. Tomato Factory released its first game Sheeple on September, 18 2009. It has been an incredible experience learning about both the development (easy) and the marketing (hard) aspects of the iPhone app marketplace! I have gotten to know some good indie iPhone developers and look forward to what 2010 has in store.

We are currently working on two other games and have some exciting plans for 2010. I will be posting regular development related news on this blog. If you haven't already tried Sheeple, then please do so. There is also a Lite version available.

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