Friday, May 7, 2010

Most-downloaded iPhone game sets the bar very low

A cartoon game called Ow My Balls has skyrocketed in demand since the developer listed it as free last weekend. The app stars an average-looking guy in jeans and a sweater, who the player guides toward, you guessed it, repeatedly getting hit in the crotch.

"I find the whole game genuinely entertaining," developer Josh Michaels said in an e-mail. "Our goal for the game was to make people laugh, and I think we accomplished it."

There are no stats on how many people chuckled, but the audience was certainly huge. On Monday alone, it was downloaded 233,000 times and has remained in the top spot practically ever since, Michaels wrote. In its first four days as a free download, the game added half a million new players, he said.

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