![]() ![]() I’ve no idea why something as dire as Red Bouncing Ball Spikes is zooming up the chart, and it sets off my suspicion alarm. “The iOS games charts have always been of dubious quality,” says Craig Grannel, an iOS games journalist, “but the paid charts historically been harder to crack. It takes around 4,000 downloads to hit the top 10 paid apps on the app store, meaning that, including Apple’s 30% cut, the developer of the app has made back their money 277 times over. That hasn’t stopped thousands of users downloading the app, at a cost of a dollar each – although after nine reviews, it only has a three-star rating. But Red Ball Template was designed as more of a tutorial, demonstrating a key feature of GameSalad to other developers. More complex packages, such as the “Super Mega Game Pack”, can cost hundreds of dollars. ![]() Red Ball Template is one of the simplest assets available on the GameSalad site, sold for just $9.99. Hit a pipe and your bird dies … just like in Flappy Bird.īut wait, there’s more! There are eight other games riding the Flappy Bird train into the Top 40 on the iPhone Games charts.Red Bouncing Ball Spikes is at number three in the US paid-for apps chart. It’s got a bird and you tap the screen as it flies forward to avoid Super Mario Bros.-style pipes that get in your way. ![]() (And not a talented 3rd grader.) But the gameplay is strangely comparable to Flappy Bird. I’ll give you a short review: It’s exactly like Flappy Bird, except it looks like it was designed by a 3rd grader. But its spirit will live on through the absurd success of Fly Birdie – Flappy Bird Flyer, which is now the number one game on iTunes as of this writing.īecause I’m too curious for my own good, I played Fly Birdie – Flappy Bird Flyer. Flappy Bird, a game that gained astronomic popularity over the last month, was removed from the Android and iOS app stores. We now know just how desperately people want what they can’t have. ![]()
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