Do you support me to dev OpenTTD for iOS?

[jfs]

Remember there's been cases of major game developers releasing almost-copies of successful/good indie games, and because of the major developer's higher marketing budget their game ended up drowning the indie game. Despite the indie game being on the market first, and possibly being a better game too.
I think Apple did later change their policy to attempt to prevent that behaviour, in effect being something akin to patents: First on market gets to be exclusive.
It sounds very much like that kind of policy they're shooting you down by.

[orudge]

Also, under what name are you trying to submit the game? (Ideally not "OpenTTD" on its own!) Prior experience would suggest you will not succeed due to the GPL issue, anyway, but yes, it's possible the presence of regular "Transport Tycoon" may be an issue too.

[HiTTd]

I use name "OpenTTD: Transport Tycoon" in App Store, but now they just tell me mine is a spam, not details are given.
It will be good if they tell me how to fix to pass the review, they just let me guess :<
I've asked if they could tell me the details, now wait for the reply.

Also, under what name are you trying to submit the game? (Ideally not "OpenTTD" on its own!) Prior experience would suggest you will not succeed due to the GPL issue, anyway, but yes, it's possible the presence of regular "Transport Tycoon" may be an issue too.

[HiTTd]

Yes. the Transport Tycoon By 31x Limited for example. now I think I need to do a try, since OpenTTD is a great unique game, not a SPAM.

Remember there's been cases of major game developers releasing almost-copies of successful/good indie games, and because of the major developer's higher marketing budget their game ended up drowning the indie game. Despite the indie game being on the market first, and possibly being a better game too.
I think Apple did later change their policy to attempt to prevent that behaviour, in effect being something akin to patents: First on market gets to be exclusive.
It sounds very much like that kind of policy they're shooting you down by.

[kamnet]

Aha. Yeah, your inclusion of "Transport Tycoon" is what did it. Leave it out. The game's official title is OpenTTD. It's not an acronym, it isn't shorthand for anything.

I wonder if there would be any objection if you renamed it "Locomotion"? (No, don't actually do that).

[jfs]

The names "Transport Tycoon" and "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" are trademarks, and OpenTTD has no right whatsoever to use them.

[HiTTd]

The Apple review team gave me a call and said:
1. Someone has uploaded OpenTTD(app base on OpenTTD source code) to AppStore. But they denied all of them.
2.Lots of apps in the AppStore have similar game play.
3.I can not upload anymore, or they'll terminate the account.

:<

[kamnet]

Okay, so develop it for sideloading. We can advertise the heck out of it ourselves.

[HiTTd]

Here's my source code. Hope someday I can see OpenTTD available on the iOS App Store, and merge into the trunk
https://github.com/dreammakerwh/OpenTTD-ios

As things stand, no, you won't be able to. However, if you can release the source code, dedicated users can build it themselves and deploy it to their own devices. We can also look at merging the code into trunk. Thanks for your work!

[kamnet]

Awesome! Work on fixing any outstanding bugs, build a binary, teach people how to sideload it, and you're in business.

[HiTTd]

:>. Hope some day we can free to get the OpenTTD from the iOS App Store.

Awesome! Work on fixing any outstanding bugs, build a binary, teach people how to sideload it, and you're in business.

[orudge]

That’s unfortunate, but not unexpected. I’ll clone your repository and take a look at it when I get a chance, see if I can get it working on my iPhone!

[pelya]

Sideloading is not user-friendly, ideally it should be working after single button tap.

Another option is WebAssembly, this way we don't need to use Apple Store at all (and pay them $100/year)

Can someone please try to open WebAssembly version on their iPad? If that works, all we need to do is compile touch-optimized version and add multitouch handling.

https://milek7.pl/openttd-wasm/

[jfs]

Trouble with browser versions: Savegames, mods (NewGRF, AI, GS), multiplayer are all difficult to support well.

Anything implemented via file storage in a native version would either need some odd integration with the browser's file picker, and probably be difficult to navigate, or would need to work with HTML5 localstorage which has no good way of importing/exporting saves to files.

Multiplayer will need to proxy through the server hosting the app.

[kamnet]

Sideloading is not user-friendly, ideally it should be working after single button tap.

It may not be user friendly, but hundreds of thousands of iOS users (maybe millions?) do it every day. It's the most direct method of getting the game out on iOS.