I’ve no idea why something as dire as Red Bouncing Ball Spikes is zooming up the chart, and it sets off my suspicion alarm. “The iOS games charts have always been of dubious quality,” says Craig Grannel, an iOS games journalist, “but the paid charts historically been harder to crack. It takes around 4,000 downloads to hit the top 10 paid apps on the app store, meaning that, including Apple’s 30% cut, the developer of the app has made back their money 277 times over. That hasn’t stopped thousands of users downloading the app, at a cost of a dollar each – although after nine reviews, it only has a three-star rating. But Red Ball Template was designed as more of a tutorial, demonstrating a key feature of GameSalad to other developers. More complex packages, such as the “Super Mega Game Pack”, can cost hundreds of dollars. Red Ball Template is one of the simplest assets available on the GameSalad site, sold for just $9.99. Red Bouncing Ball Spikes is at number three in the US paid-for apps chart.
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