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BaDaBoo bounces to 600,000 downloads

Picks up traction now it's free

BaDaBoo bounces to 600,000 downloads
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It's all go at French developer Bulky Pix.

It's announced its iPhone version of web brawler My Brute has clocked up 25 million games in three months.

And now it's revealed its viral snooker-like game BaDaBoo has been downloaded 600,000 times.

Perhaps this isn't as impressive as the My Brute figure though, as BaDaBoo is a free download.

When I reviewed the game, I thought it was a nice concept but couldn't really see how it was going to build up the community momentum required to keep people playing for long periods of time.

But it was a paid app then.

Apparently the trick was to make it free and get people updating their scores to their friends via Facebook Connect.

You can check it out by hitting the Buy It! link, although you won't be buying it, of course.

Jon Jordan
Jon Jordan
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