Today was an interesting day. I started by watching the OpenAI keynote on the new ChatGPT 5 version rolling out soon (it’s 1:56 AM now and I still don’t have access, but that’s okay). That got me pretty excited to get my feet wet, so I set up my development environment and started the project.
- Installed iOS 26 / MacOS 26 beta on my iPhone, MacBook, iPad, and Apple Watch.
- Created Kyle Incremental in Xcode and backed the project up to a private GitHub repository.
- Tested deploying the default project to all devices (Mac, iPhone, iPad) that I’m worried about for now.
- Added some basic save game functionality.
- Added iCloud integration utilizing SwiftData.
- Tested save data syncing across devices.
- Created an incredibly simple incremental game that rewards you for how many seconds you were offline to further test save syncing between the phone, tablet, and laptop.
- Generated a basic icon for the game with ChatGPT and added it to the project.
Overall I feel like it was an incredibly productive first day. ChatGPT was wildly helpful with every step of this process, and the direct integration with Xcode has been pretty eye opening. Excited to see where this all takes me. Not sure I’ll get back to the project tomorrow or not, but I already have some ideas on what I want to do next. I may look into what tool are available currently for music generation, as I plan to use ChatGPT for now for images and help with the actual development/programming.