Well, I managed to prepare my app for submission to the intel appup store.<\/p>\n
I first had to figure out bugs: Sound doesn\u2019t work. Also fonts don\u2019t work. This was very disappointing considering that I\u2019ve been working with a musician on sound effects and music. So we\u2019re not able to use any of that work we did until they fix sound. I even tried to use a flash based sound player, and use the embed tag. None of it worked.<\/p>\n
Also the lovely font we selected does not work. Trying to use a font-face crashed the browser completely. So instead I had to use \u2018Arial\u2019. arg.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure what sort of html5 games and apps they expect if fonts and sounds aren\u2019t working?<\/p>\n
It seems they are using a 1 year old webkit implementation, so I hope they will upgrade their encapsulator soon. One year in web browser years is about 70 human years.<\/p>\n
Anyway, we decided to submit the app anyway. The font makes it look a bit ugly, and without sounds it looses a lot \u2013 but at least the game play works.<\/p>\n
Then I filled out a few pages of forms, prepared images, wrote copy, and did all sorts of guff so that I could upload the app. For some reason they required silverlight or google gears to upload the file (weird). Not sure why they couldn\u2019t use a normal html upload form, or even a flash upload form.<\/p>\n
Anyway\u2026 all that got done until I had to apply for a security certificate to sign the files. I fill out another form of my personal details, press submit and I\u2019m greeted with a great error message: \u201cAn error has occurred. -1\u201d<\/p>\n
Oh well. Sent off an email for support, and now I wait.<\/p>\n
Finally blocked after a couple of long days and nights \u2013 stopped by the error \u201c-1\u201d.<\/p>","time":"October 8th, 2011 8:37 am","title":"Battling Intel Appup submission"}