We started designing it at the end of 2020 and released it in Jan 2022. We met over word games, and love playing them together so we wanted to make one with all the polish we could put into it
It's inspired by the 1970s, old Atari game packaging, VHS tapes, Beach Boys albums, etc. We spend time making the puzzle together each day and put quite a lot into it in terms of stories for the different words, themes, and curating words based on upcoming events. You can see what I mean from our Twitter[1] or Instagram[2]
Our goal was to have it cover its own costs, to earn about $500/year (Apple Dev expenses, font licensing, hosting, Firebase). This would allow us to justify working on it. It has earned $1000 in January so far (probably because Apple featured it) so we consider it a success for this year and next year
We started designing it at the end of 2020 and released it in Jan 2022. We met over word games, and love playing them together so we wanted to make one with all the polish we could put into it
It's inspired by the 1970s, old Atari game packaging, VHS tapes, Beach Boys albums, etc. We spend time making the puzzle together each day and put quite a lot into it in terms of stories for the different words, themes, and curating words based on upcoming events. You can see what I mean from our Twitter[1] or Instagram[2]
Our goal was to have it cover its own costs, to earn about $500/year (Apple Dev expenses, font licensing, hosting, Firebase). This would allow us to justify working on it. It has earned $1000 in January so far (probably because Apple featured it) so we consider it a success for this year and next year
[1] https://twitter.com/RetrogramApp
[2] https://instagram.com/retrogram.app