Meet SaruTobi, the flying bitcoin collecting monkey
In this interview, we speak to Christian Moss of indie game developers, Mandel Duck, about their upcoming game SaruTobi. This is due for release in mid/late November on iOS devices. You are Tobi, a monkey living in a jungle. You must swing from your vine, building up momentum before releasing yourself to fly across the retro 8-bit jungle landscape,....
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Apple has approved a retro-styled iOS game that tips players in real bitcoin, recently releasing it onto the iTunes store. The game, SaruTobi, lets users swing a monkey from a vine, building up momentum before releasing him to collect power-ups and bitcoin tokens as he frolics though the air. Speaking to CoinDesk, developer Christian Moss said: "SaruTobi is literally Japanese for 'Monkey Fly', and this is pretty much the premise of the game. The user ... flings him across an 8-bit jungle collecting floating bitcoin along the way." Introduction to bitcoin. Moss says he was in the process of....
Apple has approved an IOS game that tips players in bitcoin. Known as SaruTobi, users play as a monkey that collects bitcoin tokens while swinging from trees and vines. Sure, the graphics seem like something out of the original "Mario Bros" venture, but who cares? For old-school fanatics who also happen to be bitcoin enthusiasts, the game is right up their alley. Forget the look of the game... It's the bitcoins that players likely care about. Developer Christian Moss describes the game: "SaruTobi is literally Japanese for 'Monkey Fly', and this is pretty much the premise of the game. The....
The notoriously difficult Apple App Store approval process has given its blessing to a game that tips users directly in BTC. Ad-supported, Super Mario-style game SaruTobi, which is Japanese for "flying monkey," lets users earn BTC by playing well or simply by playing a certain amount of time. According to Reddit user bubbasparse, this length of time was "after a few tries of playing." Also read: Bitcoin Gaming Cryptocurrency HYPER Launches 10 Game Servers. The obvious benefit to the Bitcoin ecosystem is the introduction of unassuming iOS gamers looking for a free game to play becoming....
SaruTobi creator Christian Moss has confirmed that the iOS game has been temporarily removed from Apple's App store. Speaking to CoinDesk, Moss said that the tech giant had removed SaruTobi over concerns that users could mistake its in-game bitcoin with real bitcoin. The game, which lets users swing a monkey from a vine in a bid to collect bitcoin tokens, tips users in real bitcoin and allows them to purchase animated coins with no real-world value for use in the app. Moss said that the issue had now been fixed and that the app is currently awaiting Apple's review. Apple and bitcoin. Moss....
In a shocking turn of events, developers of the popular mobile Bitcoin game SaruTobi have changed the in-game currency to bitCoin. For as long as SaruTobi was using “Bitcoin” as an in-game currency, there have been multiple reports of confusing and outrage among players expecting to earn a lot of money by actively playing the game. That matter has been resolved now to make it clearer to everyday gamers. The latest update to the SaruTobi game- version 2.10 – includes a few interesting changes. The most obvious change is the removal of “Bitcoin” as the in-)game currency name, and replacing....