iLightning: my first iPhone app

I went to check my e-mail this morning, and was thrilled to see a message from "iTunes", notifying me that iLightning was ready for sale! Wheee! I've been checking my e-mail every few hours for a couple of days now.

Interestingly, the app is already available through the iTunes store. I was wondering whether I would get a chance for final confirmation, first, to allow me to upload the iLightning web page. Apparently not, although this could be because of my release date settings. I see that 3 people bought the app overnight, while my web-page was still a place-holder. Ah well, that's done now, and you can access it here.

So, this is a very simple app. It does one thing, and one thing well (I hope).

A buddy of mine had introduced me to the infamous Youtube Lightning Bolt Ogre Battle video. For a few weeks, whenever we were in a silly mood, we'd mime casting lightning bolts at each other, doing our own sound effects. Then, one Friday, we were doing it, and someone half-jokingly said "you should make an iPhone app out of that." We just looked at each other for a beat, then did some frantic web-searching. He did the art, and I did the coding, and a few days later iLightning was born!