Hatchlings Match is the first app to be released in the Apple App Store by the Hatchlings team.
Brad Dwyer, founder of Des Moines-based startup Hatchlings, announced via Facebook this morning that the team’s first mobile app is now live in the Apple App Store. As of Tuesday, Hatchlings Match—a game that challenges players to pair Easter egg tops with their bottoms before time runs out—is now available for free to iPhone and iPad users.
“We’ve been working really hard to get Hatchlings Match and Alphabrawl in the App Store before the Christmas rush,” Dwyer told Silicon Prairie News. “Match just happened to be the one that was ready to go slightly sooner.”
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In September, Dwyer shared the story behind Hatchlings Match, and just two months its launch, the game attracted more than two million users globally.
Dwyers says the work the team has already done on Alphabrawl—an “anti-word game” that came out of a 2012 Startup Weekend, which is currently in beta—helped the launch of the team’s first mobile app.
“We learned a lot from developing Alphabrawl,” Dwyer said. “It wasn’t actually too different. We were able to share a lot of the code with Hatchlings Match since we designed it with mobile in mind from the start.”
So far Dwyer says the response to the app’s release has been a positive one.
“It’s a bit challenging to sort through the noise right now but it sounds like people are enjoying it so far,” Dwyer said. “By far the loudest voices have been those requesting an Android version.”
For now the Hatchlings Match app is only available for iOS users, but Dwyer says an Android version of the app is in the works.
“It’s a bit challenging to make sure the game runs properly on all the different Android phones out there, but we’re making a lot of progress,” he said.
Read more about Hatchlings Match through our most recent coverage: “Hatchlings Match listed as top 200 Facebook app with 2M global users“
Credits: Product screenshots from Apple App Store.
