Hello everyone. I'm the creator of Gif Jam.
I made this app as an experiment in collaborative gif-making.
- Login with your Facebook account.
- Connect with a friend or with a random player
- Make a 10-frame gif and send it to your friend
- Your friend creates a 10-frame gif and sends it back to you
- Both separate gifs are then exported as a diptych gif.
I worked on it for the past 2 years as a side project. The app has gone through a lot of changes in that time.
At first I planned on using Apple's own Game Center as a way to connect people with each other. It worked really well because I didn't have to write any matchmaking backend or do any account creation. Unfortunately Apple didn't like me using Game Center for a non game app. They refused to approve the app. I spent weeks, months even, trying to appeal and re-appeal, to no avail. I got fed up and gave up working on it for about 6 months.
I then discovered Parse and I decided to rewrite the backend of the app with the Parse API. I'm quite happy with how Parse handles things.
I could spend at least another year working on the app. But after all this time I think it's best to just put it out there and see how people respond. I hope some people will have fun with it.
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