Good news everyone!

I heard back from Atari today, and the response was actually pleasant. Apparently the only infringing aspect of my app quadropong was the name itself, and the inclusion of their trademark name, 'PONG'. Atari said they have no claims to the graphics assets or even the gameplay mechanics, so if I renamed my app and resubmitted it, there would be no further problems. Sweet!

This is a slight pain, and will take a few hours of work to change some graphics around, but I am worried that I will have to resubmit to Apple as a completely different app ID. I haven't poked around iTC yet to see if I can keep the same bundle ID but just change the name slightly. We'll see how big of a headache that side of this ordeal will be.

Which brings me to my next point, and an outreach to my dozens of readers; what should the new name be? I had some funny suggestions on Facebook from my friend Greg, including 'quadro-ping' and 'comparewithactiveingredientsinatarispongx4'. I kind of like the idea of a long ridiculous name like 'Happy Fun Four Sided Bouncing Ball Game', but a simple tweak like 'quadropUng' would be funny too. Any suggestions? Leave a comment or a tweet (@jonnysuave) with your ideas.