Amazing what one can vibe-code these days. I am not an iOS dev, but I am pretty technical, focused mostly in cloud infrastructure and architecture. I like playing video games, and this new Forza Horizon 6 is fantastic. While going through the menus, I saw that it can send telemetry data to any IP over UDP, so I was curious how far I can get with creating an app that would serve as a server and visualize this data. Hours of having fun tweaking it (good thing is that to test this app, I need to play Forza), and 3 weeks of waiting for Apple approval, the app is out and is free to use with no ads. Hardest part was to build a race log, detection whether that car is on a particular race/track in the game, and attributing race attempst to these tracks - but I managed to do it!
Amazing what one can vibe-code these days. I am not an iOS dev, but I am pretty technical, focused mostly in cloud infrastructure and architecture. I like playing video games, and this new Forza Horizon 6 is fantastic. While going through the menus, I saw that it can send telemetry data to any IP over UDP, so I was curious how far I can get with creating an app that would serve as a server and visualize this data. Hours of having fun tweaking it (good thing is that to test this app, I need to play Forza), and 3 weeks of waiting for Apple approval, the app is out and is free to use with no ads. Hardest part was to build a race log, detection whether that car is on a particular race/track in the game, and attributing race attempst to these tracks - but I managed to do it!