Tap Tap Revenge, a Guitar Hero-like game for the iPhone where the user taps colored dots in time with the beat of a song, is surging up the iPhone App Store rankings despite having launched a few days after most of the original apps.
The game, which was released by new startup Tapulous, is currently number 7 on the list of top free applications overall (ahead of AOL Radio and MySpace Mobile) and number 1 on the top games list.
And there’s a good reason for the surge - the game is a ton of fun, particularly the two player version with both users playing simultaneously, head to head, on the same iPhone.
The game was originally created by Nate True for hacked iPhones. Tapulous bought the game from True and added a number of features, like the two player mode.
Tapulous, which hired a team of “all-star” developers to create applications, raised $1.8 million in capital from a number of high profile angel investors. The company has another six applications coming soon.
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Amazing game at iPhone…..I like because poison for 2 player
Haven’t tried it yet.Must check it out today
is it just me or is the first frame of the video eerily reminiscent of goatse…?
Thats awesome. And in 2 more years well see it in australia
It’s a nice application.
I wonder how the ranking is made. Is it a worldwide ranking of downloads or a national ranking (by country) of downloads? I ask this because all countries have different applications. In France, eBay, Pandora and Loopt are not available for example, it would make more sense to have a ranking per country then.
Anyone has any idea how the ranking is made then?
fucking cool…. i cannot wait to have a try!
but… i’ve sold my old iphone, wonder when can i buy the 3G version.
why couldn’t the video have included the audio from the game instead of that cheesy track from 1982?
how does tapulous make money?
Nice work, Bart & team!
@9: How about this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLCQxJZndxM
@10: We plan to sell a premium edition as well as premium tracks in the next few months.
Just tried it out. I was a bit disappointed that the user-interactions did not trigger sounds when I tapped. In Guitar Hero, the end-user actually contributes to the song. Is that because the iPhone SDK doesn’t have sound-synthesis and/or mixing capabilities? If not, Apple really needs to add that to the SDK/OS.
For those who had JailBroken phones and were running apps on their iPhone last year, there was an identical app called “Tap Tap Revolution”, looked almost identical, had two songs. Did they steal it, or are they the same authors?
Kudos to you Bart and team. Thanks for the Starbucks demo!!!
@14: read the posting, yo.
Tapulous is one of the hottest companies in the valley. All of their Apps were huge hits on the iPhone/Pod jailbreak world. They’re all clean fun applications that people of all ages loved. An all star development team and backed by some of the smartest people in the valley. Bechtolsheim, Theis, Motwani, Clavier have amzaing noses for building great companies.
Hope those next 6 apps make some money for them, or their investors can kiss that 1.8 mil goodbye!
An awesome idea for using the iPhone’s functionality, but the end of the video says it all… you lose. Imagine being near to someone in a public space or whatever, playing this. The thought makes me want to go off the grid entirely.