Stores: Steam and the iOS App Store, plan and lanes

The plan for getting Rusty Buns apps onto Steam and the iOS App Store (iPhone and iPad), decided with the owner 2026-10-30. Full record: notes/STORES.md (branch office/sprocket-083a until its PR merges).

Shape: one pure Rust core per app (wasm for web and edge, cdylib for desktop, staticlib + UniFFI xcframework for iOS), with a renderer per platform: three.js on web and Steam, SwiftUI + RealityKit on iOS.

Order

iOS: Park Hide & Seek, then Hippo Tycoon, then qCRM. Native SwiftUI, online only, edge first; more moves onto the phone later.
Steam: Hippo Tycoon is the pilot, in a bundled-Chromium window (Electron or Electrobun with CEF) so Steam Deck gets real WebGL.

Releases: one version per app across every store. <app>-vX.Y.Z-beta.N goes to TestFlight and the Steam beta branch; <app>-vX.Y.Z goes to App Store review and the Steam default branch. Betas any time, a stable train monthly per app. Store builds run in GitHub CI behind the drops approval.

The lanes and apps are listed in a comment below. One worker per lane or app, every PR against main.

Lanes and apps, in order. Start with the two MANUAL RUNs (Steam's 30-day clock) and the iOS and Steam lanes, which can run in parallel:

iOS lane: SwiftUI shell, Rust xcframework, TestFlight in CI #2876 iOS lane: SwiftUI shell, Rust xcframework, TestFlight in CI
Steam lane: bundled-Chromium shell, steamworks.js, SteamPipe upload in CI #2877 Steam lane: bundled-Chromium shell, steamworks.js, SteamPipe upload in CI
Edge protocol versions: old store builds keep working or ask to update #2878 Edge protocol versions: old store builds keep working or ask to update
eqosys: in-app account deletion and Sign in with Apple, for the App Store #2879 eqosys: in-app account deletion and Sign in with Apple, for the App Store
Builder control plane: builder Mac taps in to take CI jobs, GitHub is the fallback #2880 Builder control plane: builder Mac taps in to take CI jobs, GitHub is the fallback
Park Hide & Seek on iOS (first iOS app): SwiftUI + RealityKit client over the edge World #2881 Park Hide & Seek on iOS (first iOS app): SwiftUI + RealityKit client over the edge World
Hippo Tycoon on Steam (Steam pilot) #2882 Hippo Tycoon on Steam (Steam pilot)
Hippo Tycoon on iOS (second iOS app): hippo_sim as an xcframework, SwiftUI + RealityKit #2883 Hippo Tycoon on iOS (second iOS app): hippo_sim as an xcframework, SwiftUI + RealityKit
qCRM on iOS (third iOS app): a native business app over its edge API #2884 qCRM on iOS (third iOS app): a native business app over its edge API
MANUAL RUN: Steamworks sign-up, Hippo Tycoon's app fee and a build account #2885 MANUAL RUN: Steamworks sign-up, Hippo Tycoon's app fee and a build account
MANUAL RUN: App Store Connect records and an upload key for the iOS apps #2886 MANUAL RUN: App Store Connect records and an upload key for the iOS apps

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QuinnsCode commented on Oct 30, 2026

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