Seaman DS in development, Apple denying iPhone spin-off Gabo?
Since late November, I've been doing at very least twice or thrice weekly App Store checks to see if Yoot Saito's previously mentioned Seaman spin-off caveman sim Gabo has sprung to life, and apparently my checks were all in vain.
In a post-script to a long and otherwise unrelated blog post, Saito has said (as best I can tell, I'm currently working on a more official translation) that the app has long been finished, but that Apple had "expressed displeasure" at the interactions with its perkily umbilical Peking man and denied its release.
Though this part's even more shakily translated, the post also seems to suggest that because the iPhone app's developers are currently preoccupied with Seaman DS (which might itself be the even bigger news; it's the first Saito has hinted at the idea since the beginning of 2008), they've given up on making changes to satisfy Apple's demands for now, but in the long run hope to return to the project and ensure its release.
Something else [rough pass Google translation]
Previously:
Seaman dev going iPhone with Gabo - Offworld
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Blaine
#1 – 7:15 PM January 15, 2009
That's tragic. Yoot Saito, if not a pure artist* in the standard way, is certainly an artistic game designer. It'd be a terrible shame if Gabo doesn't see the light of day - and I don't even have an iPhone!
Seaman DS sounds like it'd be a wonderful time-suck. I still play the Dreamcast version every so often. You can almost get into a beta-like state watching the little Gillman swim around.
*Note: not to incite "are games art" debate.
gobo
#2 – 4:40 AM January 16, 2009
So iFart and its ilk are perfectly fine (and bestsellers), but a highly sophisticated app that lets you feed and toss around a fake caveman is verboten?
Apple needs to stop trying to protect people.
Anonymous Anonymous
#3 – 5:13 AM January 16, 2009
I would encourage them to try again. Apple recently lowered the bar when it comes to their mysterious criteria. There are now two "jiggly boob" apps and perhaps a dozen or more farting apps. The world needs Gabo. Sad to see someone throw up their hands and abandon a project because of a couple of rejections. They should consider talking to one of millions of freelance writers who live by the query and die by the thousands of rejections slips they get.
No one ever got anything by just walking away from a challenge.