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'Beer Pong' iPhone Game Creators Making $7K Per Month

by Evan Shamoon on July 17, 2009 at 10:15 AM

Another sure sign that our capitalism system is broken: While PhD-educated physicists take jobs at Wal-Mart and single mothers hold down four jobs just to put factory-farmed food on the table, the creators of the iPhone game Beer Pong Challenge are making more than $7,000 a month in money from in-game advertising.

Business Insider broke it down, and figured out that for every 1,000 impressions, the company Super Experiment gets $3.21 -- which means that it's getting over 2.3 million impressions a month. Which means that a lot of people are playing Beer Pong Challenge.

Did we mention that this rendition of beer pong doesn't even get you drunk? [From: Business Insider]

Tags: apps, appstore, beer, business, iphoneapps, top

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elebenJul 17th 2009 12:21PM

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Actually this shows that capitalism works. You PRODUCE something that works and people pay you for it. Should they be PUNISHED for making something that people want to buy and use or maybe they should be taxed more.

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JodyJul 18th 2009 6:32PM

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This is simply incredible. There are hundreds of developers who are making thousands and thousands of dollars.

I really need to get my butt in gear, and get an application and/or game up on the iPhone App Store, free or not, so that I can get me some extra income on the side.

This can turn into a full time job EASILY.

http://www.bfn.im

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THJJul 21st 2009 5:35PM

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For every one dev you read about that is making 4K+ a month, there are several thousand devs that are making

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Savage1stJul 25th 2009 8:08PM

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what programs are used to create mobile phone games?

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MitchellDec 2nd 2009 10:11AM

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7k a month for a program that could not have cost more than a few thousand dollars to develop. Not too shabby. Since I have no life now that I'm old, and I haven't played a decent game of beer pong in years, I may just check this one out. The site where I usually get my iPhone app reviews liked this one as well, so maybe it's time to pull the trigger..

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