Show HN: Tapotron – An iOS game where you just tap buttons

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a year ago

I made a game for iOS called TAPOTRON. It's a game where you tap buttons. That's all. But wait – there's more!

It's actually 16(!) buttons in a grid! You can tap them as fast as you can, slow and zen-like or in sequence. Three exciting game modes! In addition there are some secondary buttons to tap too. Like switching themes, view stats and leaderboards and even a settings-button!

All jokes aside. The concept is stupid simple, that's why I've tried to do the UI as fun as possible with inspiration from favorite retro electronics and implement haptics and satisfying sound and music. I've included a mascot called TAPTRONBOT that will encourage you with messages. You can also engage "Bad Robot Mode" and TAPOTRONBOT will be slightly disappointed and bored with you.

So you tap buttons and it will store your taps, best times, tap streak e t c. You choose a faction to join (I'm "HARD G. GIF" for life!) and your taps will contribute to your faction. You can also watch the global community's taps count upwards live as other tappers tap.

Your taps will earn you achievements and you'll unlock more visual themes as you tap along. If you tap every day your score multiplier will increase. The score multiplier is also based on you TPM (taps per minute).

And since it's such a silly concept (tap a button!) I've doubled down on comparing it to Tetris, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Minecraft, Fortnite e t c. TAPOTRON has ambitions of a AAA title but on a AA battery budget.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/6738282470

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZb_vG3nXao

Website: https://tapotron.com

It's only for iOS at the moment since it started out as a silly side project, but quickly snowballed to what it is now. Would be fun to port it to Android later on.

Also note: It's completely free to play and you can unlock stuff via progression. If you're lazy (or just want to support TAPOTRON) you can also purchase an unlock.

But, idea is to have it completely free. No third party trackers and completely ad-free.

If you have any feedback or questions just shoot! Stack is SwiftUI, Firebase Realtime database, Firestore database, Telemetry Deck for analytics.