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When the FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa,even you can play football on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Mumbai-based Yellow Monkey Studios is launching a game,Finger Footie,on Apples App Store the day the soccer extravaganza begins June 11.
Events like these always capture the users fancy, says Shailesh Prabhu,the 27-year-old director of Yellow Monkey Studios. People would love to play matches their own way. Apple,for its part,is running a football section on the App Store where they are promoting football-related applications and Finger Footie is one of them.
He claims Finger Footie is different from other football games in the market. We saw a lot of games on the iPhone and most of them work like any other console with a soft gamepad or buttons drawn on the screen. With Finger Footie,you can play football on the iPhone screen,but with your fingers, he says.
Finger Footie will be five-ten minutes of fast-paced game where you can zoom in and out,and even tilt the phone while the ball is in the air to bend it like Beckham. Besides,its top-down view will enable players to plan strategies and implement them with greater ease.
Despite its many user-friendly features,finding a mass market in India will be a tough task for Finger Footie. India is not a huge market for two reasons popularity of cricket and non-penetrations of Apple devices, says Prabhu,who is banking on downloads from Europe,South America and parts of Asia.
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