{"id":59516,"date":"2013-10-21T15:55:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=59516"},"modified":"2013-10-21T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T13:56:56","slug":"sa-game-snailboy-features-in-itunes-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/59516-sa-game-snailboy-features-in-itunes-charts","title":{"rendered":"SA game Snailboy features in iTunes charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SA developed Snailboy has made it onto the iTunes charts since the side-scrolling platformer made its debut on the international and local store over three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by Thoopid, Snailboy was featured as one of the \u201cbest new games\u201d on the US iTunes store, and has since reached the \u201cTop Paid iPhone Games\u201d list on the SA store.<\/p>\n<p>It has also received some great reviews from gamers, who seem to love the gameplay, visuals, and soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>Since the launch of the games section in the SA iTunes store, games such as Angry Birds, Worms 3, and Sonic the Hedgehog have made it to the top-paid games section.<\/p>\n<p>In August, <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57206-sa-dev-on-snailboy-and-evolving-demographics.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyGaming caught up with the Cape Town-based Thoopid<\/a>, to discuss the popularity and dynamics of mobile gaming, along with the elements of physics-based platforming, which helped conceptualise the idea for Snailboy.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SA gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59346-ps4-sa-pre-orders-can-you-risk-waiting.html\">PS4 SA pre-orders: can you risk waiting?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59191-rand-exchange-leap-and-its-sa-retail-effects.html\">Rand exchange leap and its SA retail effects<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/59075-ubisoft-dev-refuelled-by-sa-love-at-rage-2013.html\">Ubisoft dev \u201crefuelled\u201d by SA love at rAge 2013<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59102-top-games-in-sa-that-arent-the-sims-3.html\">Top games in SA (that aren\u2019t The Sims 3)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/58965-alienware-cases-and-bags-confirmed-for-sa.html\">Alienware cases and bags confirmed for SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African developer Thoopid\u2019s game makes a splash on iTunes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":57209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2752,5793,5794,10980,10982,10981,10983],"class_list":["post-59516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-sa-gaming-market","tag-sa-gaming-news","tag-sa-news","tag-snail-boy","tag-snailboy","tag-thoopid","tag-thoopid-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59518,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59516\/revisions\/59518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}