Adult iPhone game Action Babes tackles censors, gets 'hot' version
Brings a whole new meaning to iPod 'touch'
This isn't just sensationalist reporting here - Action Babes for the iPhone is an important development for the handheld device, so try to approach this application in a mature manner, okay?
Outbound City has somehow managed to get its live-action video mini-game approved. It stars two physically attractive women who do their best to obey your commands. Type in a keyword and the Action Babes will perform one of 42 amusing actions depending on what you ask of them.
But there's a serious side to Action Babes. Over on the official page there's an open letter (reproduced in full below) to Apple criticising the iPhone manufacturer for wasting developer's time and money with its prudish attitude - an attitude that doesn't govern movies released on iTunes, the letter points out.
But by censoring the babes here and there, Outbound City has got a 'hot' version of Action Babes through the approvals process.
Outbound City's open letter to Apple: Dear iPhone Developer Program, and dear Apple,with the launch of the new iPhone OS 3.0 and the "parental control" in your upload procedure you request a self evaluation of the product and there's the explicit possibility of marking it with "Sexual Content or Nudity", "Mature/Suggestive Themes", and the possibility of a "Frequent/Intense" label raising the age rating to 17+. What does this self assessment mean? In our app we considered what Apple already sells on the iTunes Store, movies like "American Pie". American Pie is on sale in iTunes with a "Rated R" We created an app with some silly comedy scenes, with a bit of malice maybe. The most exposed is a topless like in the movies we mentioned, but nothing that can be considered obscene or pornographic as in violation of Section 3.3.14 from the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. Are there two scales to evaluate apps and movies? isn't the auto-evaluation confusing for the app producers? We believe that at this time a lot of developers are wasting time and money since the introduction of the parental controls and this is Apple's responsibility. Please forgive the tone of this email but you need to see the developer's point of view for once. We'd like to have a clear answer on this matter, to share it with other developers and avoid the same situation for them. It's for this reason that we chose, as a protest after Apple first refusal, to send our application again with the censored scene covered by black stripes. Outbound City
