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“It was then rejected for something else and at that point we just gave up and never bothered to resubmit.” This would be an interesting post if we had even the

by ummonk 4y ago

“It was then rejected for something else and at that point we just gave up and never bothered to resubmit.” This would be an interesting post if we had even the slightest bit more detail.

dmix 4y ago
Must be nice to not have to deal with this shit, at least until you feel like it, because you're doing so well otherwise. Successful indie game devs are living the life.
- armadsen 4y ago
  Panic, the company this is about, is (still) a Mac software company. They definitely still have to deal with the App Store.
  - dmix 4y ago
    Yes... Surprisingly that would still matter for their other (Mac only) software. Yet they still could choose to kick the can for this video game. Which is what I was talking about.
hn_throwaway_99 4y ago
> This would be an interesting post if we had even the slightest bit more detail. The bigger piece of background is that Untitled Goose Game is (previously unbeknownst to me) a wildly successful game. I think the point he's getting across is that first the game was rejected for something trivially stupid (not being able to skip credits, which you could actually do), and then again for something probably equally trivially stupid (point being Cabel couldn't even remember it, and they apparently took a "this is BS, why bother?" approach). It's like if some NFL team had the ability to pick a star quarterback in the NFL draft but decided against it because they didn't like his shoelaces or something. Point of the post is that the Mac Store review process is so arbitrary that successful developers just take the approach of "Why bother?"
- hoseja 4y ago
  Also, "not being able to skip credits" seems like a really weird rule to have? Only sane interpretation I have is "not being able to exit game while credits are rolling."
- bitwize 4y ago
  "The font size on the pause screen is er, uh, half a point too small. Some of our users uh... might not be able to read it! Yeah, that's the ticket!"

by ummonk 4y ago

“It was then rejected for something else and at that point we just gave up and never bothered to resubmit.” This would be an interesting post if we had even the slightest bit more detail.

dmix 4y ago

Must be nice to not have to deal with this shit, at least until you feel like it, because you're doing so well otherwise. Successful indie game devs are living the life.

armadsen 4y ago
Panic, the company this is about, is (still) a Mac software company. They definitely still have to deal with the App Store.
- dmix 4y ago
  Yes... Surprisingly that would still matter for their other (Mac only) software. Yet they still could choose to kick the can for this video game. Which is what I was talking about.

hn_throwaway_99 4y ago

> This would be an interesting post if we had even the slightest bit more detail. The bigger piece of background is that Untitled Goose Game is (previously unbeknownst to me) a wildly successful game. I think the point he's getting across is that first the game was rejected for something trivially stupid (not being able to skip credits, which you could actually do), and then again for something probably equally trivially stupid (point being Cabel couldn't even remember it, and they apparently took a "this is BS, why bother?" approach). It's like if some NFL team had the ability to pick a star quarterback in the NFL draft but decided against it because they didn't like his shoelaces or something. Point of the post is that the Mac Store review process is so arbitrary that successful developers just take the approach of "Why bother?"

hoseja 4y ago
Also, "not being able to skip credits" seems like a really weird rule to have? Only sane interpretation I have is "not being able to exit game while credits are rolling."
bitwize 4y ago
"The font size on the pause screen is er, uh, half a point too small. Some of our users uh... might not be able to read it! Yeah, that's the ticket!"