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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.
Incidentally,Finger Footie was the first game Yellow Monkey Studios started work on when they started developing games for the iPhone last year. But being a small start-up and with a lot of client commitments,we had to work on it slowly. So the game was delayed by six months. But with the launch now coinciding with the World Cup,things have worked out quite well, says Prabhu.
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.
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