Grats to Mr. Demeter! I can only hope my company will follow in his footsteps ^_^

djgeki

@Lazlo: She works for cnn.com. If you go to the article page it mentions her name in the photo caption.

kpugs

I'm just curious as to how this game exactly plays.

I don't have an iphone or anything but from the quick glance, looks like a variation of bejeweled or any other pick some matching shapes and watch them disappear game.

exkon

71,500 downloads, does anyone know how many downloads games like Castle Crashers or Braid received?

aboruch23

That bastard. He's living my dream ;_;

*breaks out XNA software for the hundredth time*

Xagest

I loved the demo in Installer, i haven´t bought it in App Store, but i´m glad he´s getting recognition. He and Aurora Feint developers are the ones who really made App store relevant when it came out...

Daisuash

@tonkTONK:
I was wondering the same thing. But she sure is purrtyy.

Lazlo

Yo, who's the chick in the top right corner?

tonkTONK

@Ramza69:
I think they already have those.
...although I think you need to have a hacked iPhone.

MR. FAP☆FAP!

@Ramza69: What's great about the disemvowler is that you can still read it.

RageKage

wndr hw lng t wll b bfr sm prv crts mstrbtn gm fr th Phn.
Th phn wld fly t f thr hnd nd nl smbdy n th y.

Ramza69

@kpugs: Looks like some big ol' boobs

IndustrialJones

@mellowspaz:

I was thinking the same thing, all the most better for skullfuckage?

Biff_McFresh

I absolutely love this game. And hate it at the same time. Mainly because my wife soundly trounces my scores with ease. It really is an awesome game, though, and a GREAT time-waster when you're in the doctor's office, on the bus, wherever you have a few minutes to spare. Achievements built into the gameplay for accomplishing certain feats give it solid replay-ability. One of the first games I bought for my iPhone, and one of the most played for sure. It's the only game on my wife's iPhone - she's tried some others but keeps coming back to Trism.

AZTriGuy

@Lazlo:

She has an enormous noggin

mellowspaz

Very nice success story, I'm surprised he quit his job to start a small mobile game company. Seems like a gamble, but maybe if he already has other ideas then he can succeed with other games.

"I get e-mails from 50-year-old ladies who say, "I don't play games, but I love Trism.' That's the coolest thing."

But Trism is a game, so now she does play.. >.>

ChalkdustTorture

@nonpareil: You had to ruin the moment nonpareil...you just had to =P

Jonbo298

@aboruch23: Castle Crashers supposedly has over 345k downloads and Braid over 177k..

toneroni

@undefined: @Lazlo: She's not as hot in higher resolution: [www.topnews.in]

nonpareil

@Fuzzy Logic:

I'm just interested on how this "developer" will do with some original titles.

Seems to me just reworking current casual games or maybe "porting" some flash-based games would just be as good.

exkon

@exkon: It pretty much is. The only thing is that gravity is determined by which way you hold the iPhone. It's one of the better games in the app store, but that doesn't say much. I found scoring to be far too dependent on combos.

It was my most played game on my iPod Touch until I found Numba, which has more depth to it.

Fuzzy Logic

Wooty, my tip became a story with a disemvoweld commentator. Made my day.

lordhewlett

@nonpareil: thanks for the scare

gonz

@gonz: You must have incredibly high standards. :)

GohanGVO

Deju Vu? CNN did this exact story XD
*checks source*
OOOH
hahahaha me and my liberal RSS feeds :P

anyways, that's a lot of money.

Shockadin

@toneroni: I'm sure Jonathan Blow has only seen a fraction of the cash this guy has seen, though. iTunes probably pays incredibly high dividends to developers per sale.

Doomstink

@tonkTONK: well, that chick sure make me click this link..

abhakam

Is that the same Demiforce who released EarthBound 0 to the Web, and Help work on Mother 3?

FabronBriseis

$250k is striking it rich? What planet do they live on? I'll grant the guy the fact that he made that in two months which is more than I have made this year, but I would consider that to be far from 'rich.'

Qu33f_Machine

@FabronBriseis:
I think so, I recall this game being mentioned on the Mother 3 blog a long time ago, when trism was still developed.

I'm so glad he found sucess =)

shirokiryuu

@tonkTONK:
Those are the girls you get when you're making 250g.

Gam3r

@Qu33f_Machine: Rich considering he created a game and sold it for only $5. Also, the average annual income per American household is around the $30k mark - I'd say he's doing well.

MrMcdoobie: I don't do drugs

@Qu33f_Machine: That could buy you a small house/apppartment, you know... It doesn't mean you're swimming in money, but imagine not having to pay a mortgage, that's enough relief to make any paycheck damn worthwhile

Inzoum

@FabronBriseis: Yes it is, Mato had been talking about how demiforce was getting a little busy putting the finishing touches on Trism, and didn't have much time for the Mother 3 Fan Translation project.

Demiforce is a very talented guy who has taken part in several fan translation hacking projects. He knows his way around several platforms, programming-wise. It's good to know that Trism is a success for him!

Inzoum

@mellowspaz: still nogg-able tho! :)

NinjaWilliams

@RageKage: ...somewhat.

AstralSymphony

Congrats, demi. You freakin' deserve this.

Kitsune Sniper