Firemint, which is probably best known or its wildly popular Flight Control game for the iPhone, posted some cool figures from its social gaming platform Cloudcell that is now connected to over 1 million gamers.
They talk about two games, Real Racing and Flight Control, with most attention going to the latter. Real Racing drivers have covered 3,283,078 km in time trials and a further 1,106,445 km in league races, for a total of 4,389,523 km (2,727,523 miles). That’s almost 3,000 laps of the Monaco Grand Prix circuit, or about 2,400 laps of the Indy 500 circuit per day!
As for Flight Control, players who have uploaded their scores to online leaderboards have landed a total of 2,482,735,870 aircraft in 57,235,375 games. That’s about 5,000 times the air traffic handled by LAX (Los Angeles International Airport)!
In the original Greenfields map scores drop off rapidly after about 70 landings, with a very long tail of higher scores. By contrast, in the Beach map scores don’t reach nearly as high. Finally, in the most-challenging Carrier map far more players have lower high scores. In that sense, Firemint suggests you should pick this map if you’re keen to show off your Flight Control skills…
Flight Control ($0.99) [iTunes link]
Real Racing ($4.99) [iTunes link]