I just read a story on CNN Tech about the developer of Trism. It was an excellent story that really captured the opportunity that the App Store offers. Many of you may feel as connected to this story as I do. If you have been around the jailbreak scene for long, you will remember that Trism first came out as a jailbroken application. Even in it’s first release it was a game worth talking about! We saw it go through a few updates and once the App Store arrived, we saw it merge into the App Store. The game has always been well developed and a fair price ($4.99 – as both a jailbroke and App Store app. Though, it is currently available for $2.99). The CNN story talks about the developer’s success in the App Store.


It seems that in the first two months after Trism was released in the App Store the developer, Steve, made around $250,000 in profit…not too bad! It goes on to say that he basically developed the application by himself in his spare time (which means he didn’t have a lot of overhead). He now has a “salaried staff, five games in development and two coming out by Christmas, including a spinoff to “Trism” called “Trismology.” I was actually very impressed and slightly proud of his accomplishments! Though, I do appreciate the point that CNN makes at the end of the article saying,

“Many of the overnight successes we’ve witnessed enjoyed the benefits of timing and visibility, advantages quickly being eroded due to market oversaturation,” Steinberg added. “Let’s put it this way: I wouldn’t tell anyone to quit their day job just yet. As with any Cinderella story, chances of recreating this kind of success are few and far between.”

Overall, Trism is an excellent game (it always has been) and I was very excited to hear about it’s success!

You can check out the full article by CNN HERE.

You can see all of our articles on Trism HERE.

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Check out our Trism page for more info, screenshots and a video demo of Trism.

For more information on Trism and how you can get it on your iPhone now…check out our Trism Page.

Your Level, Score and the number of matches you have left are all displayed on the lower menu bar. You will also notice a little dial in the lower right corner…that displays which way the triangles are going to fall but, I will talk more about that in a minute! If you wait long enough trying to find a match (which seems to happen to me a lot!) it will give you a little hint by putting a quick sparkle on one of the triangles that can be moved to create a match. When you do get a match, it will display the number of points for that match. If you move the blocks and do not make a match you will get a nice No Match overlay. There are a ton of other cool features like rainbow triangles, bomb triangles, black triangles…etc. But, I will let you figure out what they all do, that is part of the fun of playing!!

Now, as sweet as this game already sounds…it gets better! It uses the accelerometer to make the game even more mind blowing. However, this is much easier shown than explained so, I’m going to refer you to the video below for that! Trism Demo is available through the ModMyiFone.com source. After the video…check out the screenshots below. Oh, also, it does not save your game when you close and reopen that app…just an FYI.