RoboDancer! Coming Soon to an iPhone near you.
This is really nothing but a fun app that I had a fun time making. It hearkens back to a small Flash piece I saw on the web close to ten years ago (which you can see here).
Basically, you have a robot on your screen. Fire up some music and start clicking and dragging to change the way the robot dances. Or shake the device to come up with a random dance. There are 10 interchangeable heads, tops, bottoms, and sets of hands, meaning 10,000 possible different robots, plus a few different backgrounds.
And yeah… that’s about it! But hey, it’s free! It was submitted to the app store about a week ago, so hopefully it will be released in the next week or two.
Early on, I started looking for someone to do the graphics for me. Then I wound up pulling out my old Wacom tablet and fooling around with it. Went through a a few tutorials and picked up some neat drawing tips and finally banged out all the graphics all by myself. I’m sure a pro could have done better, but I like the raw feel they ended up with. Had a blast doing it too. Had various ideas for additional features – allowing you to use your own photos, backgrounds, maybe in app purchases of additional parts. But you have to ship at some point, and it’s a pretty fun app as it is. We’ll see where it goes and how much I end up adding to it.
