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Temple Run Scores 36 Million Downloads

Posted Feb 13, 2012 at 6:45PM EST by

Listed in: Gaming, News Tags: angry birds, imangi studios, temple run

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Temple Run is the perfect mobile game – mind-numbingly simple, but incredibly addictive. Remember, this is the mobile world we’re talking about; no one is looking for story, character development, or general quality. All you need is one objective and graphics that are reasonably easy to interpret.

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As if to prove that mobile gamers will truly buy anything with flashing colors and pretty music, Imangi Studios has announced that Temple Run has been downloaded over 36 million times. The game was originally launched in August, so it’s safe to say people have been flocking to the title. Like Angry Birds before it, Temple Run has taken a game mechanic as old as time itself and turned it into piles of money.

The company also announced that dropping the game’s price from “99 cents” to “free” increased revenue five-fold. In-game purchases skyrocketed after the switch. Once again: mobile gamers.

Imangi has plans to bring Temple Run to Android phones thanks to the huge success of the iOS version. If you’re one of the six people that has an Android phone, look for Temple Run later this year. If not, you can try it free on your iPhone or iPad.

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Doesn't the Android platform have a bigger market share than iOS?

Now I don't know much about them there fancy smarty phones, but I have a friend who owns and loves many an Apple product, from ipods to ibooks and even that apple tv thingy or whatever it's called, and STRONGLY prefers android devices over iphones and pads. Maybe that means something.

As for the game and these users (let's not call them gamers), it's easy to mindlessly blow a few bucks here and there, just look at vending machines!

Anyone remember buying batteries weekly for their Gameboy (or hourly for the Gamegear)?

I hate how "indie" developers make fortunes on the smartphone market by repackaging retro/flash games, and I feel they've harmed the portable market worse than the Wii hurt the core gamer market, but even I admit that the business practice itself is ingenious, a practice that Zynga has taken to a meta level.

# RE: ... — Navani 2012-02-14 07:50

I hope this site DOESN'T exist 10 years from now, it's a joke. It's around 5 to 1 or something like that now, Android to iPhone, simply because Android is on many more phones. If you think it's such a bad idea because they make profit, you're a complete failure at business. I wouldn't buy this game, but if people would, I'd remake Tetris 8 different ways and somehow work strippers into it. Consumers CHOOSE WHAT TO BUY, which in turn makes a company work.

I'd usually tell SeRosiS to not call people cocksuckers, but I understand his point - This site was all about quality.. then overnight it just sucked. And Temple Run is fun as shit while traveling the Metro in Paris.

I used to go to this site to read news. I would go here over Kotaku, IGN, any other site. Now I check back maybe once a day to see if there are any normal articles. Registered for four years, visiting this site for .. five? six? and this is just depressing to me. Pay me two euro an article, I'll type something more awesome and less biased.

Oh yeah. I have an Android.

+1 # Not sure if I should be offended? — MetalNinjaJesus 2012-02-14 02:06

One of the six people that has an android phone?

Maybe it's because it's a "Mac" joke but I don't see any validity in that statement. I'd say my iphone friends and android friends are pretty even in numbers.

I'm assuming this poster spends most of his time in Starbucks with an iphone, thinking he's hip or he treats Steve Job's biography as his bible but dude... that joke is pretty weak.

If you made a joke about Android's lack of games, then touche. No Android user is going to argue that we envy some of the games on the iOS side of the world but all in due time.

If the poster is a ifanboy, then so be it. Being a PC enthusiast, I can enjoy real gaming on real hardware. Not a Mac. iPhones and iTouches are all good for casual haming but I'll take a controller or mouse/keyboard over any touchscreen any day.

# Awesome Game — Alex Rourke 2012-02-21 02:46

Lol everyone's so mad about the Android comment. I definetly think it was a stupid joke but it really doesn't matter. I personally use an iPhone and love it but everyone has their own opinion. An Android/iPhone owner is going to like his/her phone regardless of which one is perceived as better.

As for Temple Run, the game is incredibly addictive. I don't get the in app purchases though. I every upgrade and charchter and have all of the achievments without ever buying coins. If you love the game it really shouldnt matter who u run with.

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