And the award for “Quickest Conversion of a News Headline into an iPhone Video Game” goes to… - Macenstein

And the award for “Quickest Conversion of a News Headline into an iPhone Video Game” goes to…

Sniper vs. Pirates, where you need to blast the evil (Somalian?) pirates off their raft and free their hostage crew members.

A rowdy crew of heavily armed pirates has kidnapped your crew, and their fate is in your stalwart hands! You have limited amunition [sic] and a tattered bullet proof vest. Battle the bloodthirsty mauraders [sic] across three intense levels of difficulty.

Touch the screen and drag your finger to zoom in and line up your scope, then tap to fire precision shots. Earn extra points by punishing the pirates creatively.

The game ends if you are killed, run out of ammo, lose more than four crewmates, or you successfully fend off the pirates. Good luck!

It was only two and a half weeks ago that captain Richard Phillips was rescued from Somali pirates by Navy Snipers (although it is unclear if te Navy gave their snipers any extra points for “punishing the pirates creatively”. Assuming this game took a day or two to make, it looks like Apple’s approval process has come a long way since the days developers complaining about months-long waits. This turnaround easily beats the game “Sully’s Flight” which allowed you to reenact captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s January 15th USAirways landing in the Hudson River. That app appears to have since been pulled from the App Store.

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2 Responses to “And the award for “Quickest Conversion of a News Headline into an iPhone Video Game” goes to…”
  1. Justin says:

    And I think South Park was the quickest show to turn this around. I love the end when the US Navy takes out 22 pirates in like 5 seconds… “Clear”.

    Seek to 20:40 http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/220764

  2. Aldo says:

    The ‘more browner* the skin of the bad guys, the faster a game based on it will come out.

    Or something like that.

    *It’s deliberate, kinda like “think different” or “funnest iPod”

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