Getting up shots at an outdoor basketball court has always been one of my favorite things.

So I made an iPhone game trying to replicate it: live weather, endless play, chill.

Endless Basketball, a one-hand portrait-mode basketball game.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6748888531

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5 in a row!

Do Apple have no weather API that avoids asking location permission?

Feels excessive for casual gaming.

Art, interface, animations look clean as usual.

You’re on fire!

No Apple weather API that avoids asking location permission, sadly. I hate that too (and also they made me put the Apple Weather text at the bottom too 😑)

Thanks for saying the art+animations are clean, appreciate ya

That Weather tag feels unwarranted.

What if you just approximate with date, season and daytime?

Any free online resources you can pull, with an above method fallback?

Yeah if someone doesn’t allow weatherkit api then I approximate based on time of day and stuff

Just tested no Location access.

Would you remove the Weather tag with that setting?

I thought I was, but it was a last minute add because of App Store review so good heads up I’ll check my logic again to make sure it removes the tag if no location access

Some ambient audio would liven it up

Totally agree. Let me try to do that because I’d want that too

*rebound

yay