The PAC-MAN 256 title has been downloaded 5 million times in a week since its release. A message about this appeared on the Twitter of the game developers, Hipster Whale company.
PAC-MAN 256 is the second project of the authors of the arcade Crossy Road. It appeared on iOS and Android on August 19. According to the studio itself, since that moment the game has been downloaded 5 million times. The first project of the team, Crossy Road, achieved the same indicators in two weeks,” said Matt Hall, founder of Hipster Whale.
In key stores in Europe and the West, the game got into the top twenty for iOS downloads. But the salesability ratings are significantly lower. In the same countries, the project did not even enter the top 500 at the box office.
Downloads of the PAC-MAN 256 game in the App Store of the UK, Germany, Russia, USA and France. App Annie DataPAC-MAN 256 sales ratings in the App Store of the UK, Germany, Russia, USA and France.
App Annie Data
Note that the authors of the game, apparently, took into account this point, or used the experience of the previous project.
PAC-MAN 256 (like Crossy Road) is monetized not so much by iAP as by motivated advertising. In order to get a “credit” – a unit of hard currency – the player can view the video.
Recall that PAC-MAN 256 is a joint project of Hipster Whale and the Japanese company Namco, who developed the very first PAC-MAN. The 256 prefix plays off the name of a little-known error in the game code, which led to the fact that at the 256-th level of the arcade, the screen was half filled with numbers and letters. Because of this, it was impossible to continue playing. A similar bug “devours” the screen in the game PAC-MAN 256.
A source: https://twitter.com