#ios dev

Hey everyone! I’m super excited to announce that my labor of love, Big Tech Tycoon, has officially launched on the App Store worldwide!

💡 What is Big Tech Tycoon?

Big Tech Tycoon is a retro strategy/simulation game where you take control of a tech startup in 1975 and guide it through decades of innovation, competition, and platform wars.

As a student developer obsessed with software engineering and especially computing history, I built this game to give tech enthusiasts a deep, authentic simulation experience without all the predatory cash-grabs seen in modern mobile gaming. I took time to make sure that the game has interesting mechanics that'll get you hooked for hours.

Key Features:

🖥️ Deep Tech Tree: 218 researchable tech nodes, 660 dynamic events, and handcrafted historical scenarios.

💾 Design software, hardware, and operating systems

👾Compete against rival tech giants

⚡ Native Apple Tech: Built 100% with SwiftUI, seamless Dark Mode support, and full Game Center integration across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro (through iPad layer of compatibility).

🚫 No Ads or Microtransactions: A traditional premium game. Buy once and play forever (also works offline btw).

⚙️ Custom engine: This game features a custom simulation engine built from ground up for this type of gameplay. This is not some random asset flip. This game was engineered from ground up to provide the players with a unique gameplay formula.

🌱Seed for the future: The launch won't represent the final state of the game. I'm commited to adding more FREE content/updates to this game for at least a year. Expect more scenarios, gameplay quirks and improvements along the way. We care deeply for user feedback, so leave some on our Discord server! We'll publish roadmaps of content planned for the game shortly after the release.

System requirements

Big Tech Tycoon is currently only available for Apple platforms. Read more about other platforms in the next section.

Current system requirement:

iOS 26.2 or newer

iPadOS 26.2 or newer

macOS 26.2 or newer

More platforms

We're looking forward to port it to other platforms such as PC/Linux/Android after the Apple release. But before we do that, we wanna suplement the game with a lot of content updates, so don't expect a new release for a while.

Our first focus is Windows. We've already got a early prototype of the game engine running on Windows. It's very bare bones but the simulation does run. It might take few months before the game is ready for a gold release.

Where can we see the game in action?

I'm gonna be soon recording and releasing small gameplay bits, developer commentary on some features and small video essays about this game. Expect video/text content talking in-depth about the game soon!

💬 Join the Official Discord Community!

To celebrate the launch, the Big Tech Tycoon Discord server is now officially open!

Whether you want to share your top-performing operating system builds, discuss 80s/90s tech history, report bugs, or pitch new features, come hang out with us!

📲 Get the game on the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/big-tech-tycoon/id6782679607

💬 Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/Z7DndZaFjm

Thanks to everyone who supported this project during development! Let’s build some tech empires.

It’s that time of year again, when the leaves change color, the air gets colder, and us coding nerds curl up with some new project to work on and post about for a month.

In previous years I’ve attempted to make games using Unity, but I always chose things that were too large to complete in a month on top of work and other life things.

I considered doing another game this year, (an even smaller project that I could possibly finish) but after talking with @delightedcrow we are considering collaborating on an open source project together!

So we are looking to contribute to Habitica, specifically the Habitica iOS app since ‘Crow has experience working with iOS and it is an app that we both use. There are a handful of tickets that they have opened to the community, and it sounds like a fun way to get involved in open source development, and once we finish one ticket we can choose a new one to work on.

蘋果今天向開發人員發佈了iOS 14.6的第一個測試版，儘管它尚未向公眾發佈iOS 14.5。雖然我們仍然不知道本次更新中有什麼新功能，但iOS 14.6發佈說明證實，該公司已進行了一些更改，以便在正式版本發佈後更容易退出測試版程序。 在蘋果開發者網站上分享的iOS 14.6 Beta 1發佈說明中，該公司提到，運行測試版操作系統的用戶現在可以將其iPhone或iPad升級到RC版本，而無需刪除測試版面圖。安裝了RC構建後，用戶可以選擇留在測試版程序中接收新更新，也可以退出程序，只接收官方更新。 軟體更新—— iOS和iPadOS 14.6 Beta版的新功能。您現在可以直接將 iOS 或 iPadOS 設備更新到最新的 Release Candidate，而無需刪除 Beta…

Battery is not draining as fast as on the last update (iOS 13.3 Beta 1), and that was in part due to a faulty Lightning Connector (if you are going to purchase a 3rd Party Lightning Connector, invest in a good quality one).

Otherwise noting else to report. If anything changes, I will post it here.

— J