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Fruitful Technologies Launches Mobile Cricket Game, Tappy Cricket

Announcement posted by Fruitful Tech 20 Nov 2014

New free to play casual Cricket game launches for iOS and Android in time for summer of cricket
Fruitful Technologies, a mobile development firm has just announced the official launch of its first mobile game, Tappy Cricket just in time for the biggest summer of cricket. 

Tappy Cricket is a fun take on the popular sport of Cricket and is aimed primarily at the casual gamer. Gameplay involves tapping on the screen to keep Tappy the ball away from obstacles in typical social cricket settings, including the alleyway, beach and backyard. Runs are scored as the player progresses through the world and statistics kept that mirror the more formal game of cricket. 

Tappy Cricket features both single player and multiplayer modes.  In single player mode, players vie for the highest number of runs in the game’s international leaderboard.  In multiplayer mode, players can challenge family and friends to a variety of Cricket matches such as Twenty 20, One Day International and Test Matches. 

Other special features include:

Basic Features
Multiple game worlds with unique obstacles
Customizable game profiles
Achievements that can be shared online through social networks

Leaderboards
Tappy Cricket keeps track of each player’s game statistics throughout the course of their careers.  Logged statistics include:
Total Games
Total Runs
Average Score
Highest Score
Number of scores above 50
Number of scores above 100

Multiplayer Mode
Tappy Cricket allows players to hold matches against family and friends.  Game modes include:
Single inning-games
Twenty20 games (5 games, total score wins)
One-Day International (10 games, total score wins)
Test Match (20 games, total score wins)

Future Features
Tappy Cricket will soon be launching several key features including:
A new Tournament mode to coincide with the 2015 Cricket World Cup
The development of over 50 new worlds
A new rewards program that will allow players to upgrade the ball and unlock new worlds
Multilingual functionality to feature new language support

Allan Bennetto, Founder of Fruitful Technologies and Tappy Cricket said: “Cricket is the world’s second most popular sport behind football with an estimated 2.5 billion fans in the world. Many of these fans are located in Asia, where there is an perfect storm of cheap, powerful devices coinciding with new faster networks and data plans. And they love games. 

With Tappy Cricket, we didn’t just want to create another simulation style game. We wanted to gamify the whole social cricket experience so the anyone could play regardless of age. We wanted the Grandparents to be challenging the Grandkids. 

Se we ended up creating a game with a really simple games engine, but bolted on a sophisticated stats engine to record all player details, just like in professional cricket. What you have now is a game that is really simple to play, but difficult to master. But like cricket, the longer you play, the better you get and the more 100s you score and the better your average is.”

Tran Cong Than, Chief Technical Architect of Fruitful Technologies said: “We’re thrilled to finally get Tappy Cricket out to the public.  The game is the product of the many hours of hard-work from our development team here in Vietnam.  Tappy Cricket may look simple to play, but a lot of work has gone into getting the stats engine right and syncing up scores from both iOS and Android so that players can seamlessly compete with each other.  We’re just getting started too.  We’ll be introducing new worlds and new game modes in the coming months.  We hope the players enjoy the game as much as we did making it.”

Tappy Cricket is free to download and play.  The game is available in the Apple App Store for iOS devices and Google Play for Android devices.