Australian mobile game
Coolest Girl In School is getting an international release, on the back of the publicity around its launch Down Under last year.
As we
wrote at the time, the game caused a stir for its risque content (sex, drugs, violence and suicide, apparently).
It was even condemned by a campaign group called The Family Association - although not being up on my Aussie protest groups, I'm not sure if that's one outraged bloke sitting in a room, like many of the comparable bodies here in the UK.
The game is the work of two Adelaide-based companies, Champagne for the Ladies and Kukan Studio. It sees you lying, bitching and flirting your way to the top of your high-school hierarchy, and is aimed at girls.
"It's not GTA for girls, it's better!" says Champagne for the Ladies producer Holly Owen. "Unlike other areas of gaming, well over half of casual mobile gamers are women, but very few games are made specifically for female audiences."
Anyway, gamers outside Australia can now get hold of the game from its
official website: it costs $7 (that's Australian dollars - around £3.35), using PayPal as the purchase mechanism.
