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Familiar. Hedgewars was for about half a year on the top page of free apps before Apple demanded that the GUI be rewritten in something other than Qt, something no one had the time to do, so it was pulled.

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What Apple policy bans Qt-based apps from the App Store?

They have every rule you can think of but don't always apply them.

Sorry, you were looking for any kind of consistency or actually well written rules or consistent, rational, or timely enforcement of said rules?

I haven’t seen it.

Only the US DoJ or FTC could make a dent in this joke of a review process.

The reason given was that it needed to use a native GUI toolkit. I don't know why this was the case. Maintaining separate GUIs for Linux, Windows and OSX was definitely not practical though.

When was this rejection? They don’t have any rule like this currently, and the App Store is full of apps not using Cocoa/Carbon/SwiftUI.

Shortly after launch of the app store. It was posted within a month or two of launch, and pulled about six months later.

I feel like enforcement is rather random though. It seems like submitting updates draws their attention.

But you could be right. It may be it's a rule they abandoned.

In any case I don't think there's anyone around with the heart to try again.

Ah, yeah, there was a rule requiring apps to use a native GUI toolkit when the App Store first launched over a decade ago, but that rule is no longer there.

Has it been that long? Time flies. Regrettably the person with the time, energy and familiarity to invest into OSX is now gone. Oh well.

Did it coincide with Team17 porting WORMS to the platform? Perhaps Apple lawyers werent feeling comfortable telling Hedgewars creators they dont want a pure ripoff in the store.

I mean lawyers don't tend towards subtlety. Either something has legal issues or it doesn't. But. Heh. Ripoff. Might as well call the original worms a basic mashup of lemmings/scorched earth, or every 3d shooter interface post wolf3d/doom a ripoff of those. In the genre would be more accurate, and it definitely has a lot of unique elements. Also, Super Tux Kart appears to be in the store.

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