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The most surprising and the least well reported story of 2009 was the removal of Codeminion and Playfirst's StoneLoops! of Jurassica from the App Store. StoneLoops! of Jurassica (Codeminion/Playfirst)
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These combined with a price of $1.99 meant the game didn't get launch traction.ĭropping the price to 99c three weeks later certainly did boost sales, gaining it top 10 status in the UK, German and Italian markets, but with a US peak of #51, iBlast Moki's failure to crack the most lucrative iPhone market (especially when compared to the likes of Skee-Ball), demonstrating something of the disadvantage of arty, indie developers operating outside that territory. Obviously neither the obscure name nor the inexperience of the small French development studio in terms of press and marketing helped in terms of spreading the word. In 2009, that game writ large was Godzilab's iBlast Moki.Īll the websites loved it ( Pocket Gamer slightly less than the others), but various factors meant it failed to find mass appeal. The saddest tale has to be the old, old story of a game that glows with critics' praise and fails to make much of a dent commercially.
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It will be much harder to replicate this success in more standard iPhone games, but if nothing else Tap Tap Revenge 3 - which is now available as a free game - will provide inspiration to others. Of course, the music-centric format of the gameplay makes the in-app purchase of additional music tracks a virtual no-brainer.
What is important however is the news that over one million tracks have been downloaded as in-app purchases since its October release, raising an estimated $350,000 in net revenue for the publisher.įor while many companies have been using the IAP mechanism, Tapulous has been the first to publicly reveal hard figures rather than talk anecdotally about success.
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The fact that the latest game in the 20 million selling Tap Tap Revenge rhythm-action series has been a massive success doesn't come as a huge surprise. It ended the year in the #1 position, and proving that when an iPhone game resonances with its audience, it doesn't matter what the industry thinks. So despite similar and better reviewed (if more expensive), games of this sort being available, Skee-Ball has remained a firm fixture in the US top 20.
On release, the game didn't review particularly well, and has only been updated once since its late September debut, but has been massively successful, netting publisher Freeverse a reported $180,000 within a month of release, despite its 99c price tag. The remake of a previous flop called 10 Balls 7 Cups, Skee-Ball added features in the form of a virtual store and integration of the Plus+ social gaming networking, but the biggest change was the acquisition of the official Skee-Ball licence. No game in 2009 better defined William Goldman's quote about the film industry that 'No one knows anything'. Now it's time to get stuck into the real meat. Previously, we counted down the most significant iPhone games from 10 to 6: from Terminator Salvation to Rolando 2. Only that they encapsulate an important trend in the iPhone games business. Of course, this doesn't necessary mean these games are great, or even good in terms of the offered gameplay experience.
While gamers and critics love to spend their time debating top 10 lists of the best games of the year, what's more interesting to consider is those games that for various reasons can be defined as being most significant.
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