Trump Hair Matters Game (Photo : Google Play)
Even before he was elected 45th president of the United States on Wednesday, Republican candidate Donald Trump had divided the nation. A lot of American voters disliked him – from his hair to his racist comments – that naked statues of the billionaire showed up in key cities to show voter disgust for America’s next president.
During the campaign period, a young Filipino developer who beat Pokemon Go with the “Flippy Bottle Extreme” video game also developed the “Trump Hair Matters” game. According to Google Play, the game has so far between 1,000 and 5,000 installs since version 1.5 was updated on Sept. 11, 2016.
Costing P45, or a little less than a dollar, the game is rated 3+ and requires an Android 4.0 and up to play on devices. The developer is 29-year-old Derrick Alain Mapagu, founder, CEO and all-around developer of Most Played Games.
Mapagu is known in the games world for “Flippy Bottles Extreme” which was a global hit in October when it became number 1 in Google Play in the UK, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Estonia. The game beat more popular games in the U.S. such as “Temple Run 2,” “Pokemon Go” and “Color Switch” with 2 million downloads in just 10 days.
It was number 1 in the action and arcade categories and number 2 in the games overall category, Entrepreneur Philippines reported.
In “Trump Hair Matters,” the gamer plays as Trump by dropping hair bombs over the rallyists and turning those opposed to his rule into Trumplets who would rule the world. “Your hair is an epitome of greatness and each time they touch your hair, they magically turn into your supporters,” according to the description on Google Play which appears to be “prophetic” because a day after Trumpet’s win, protest rallies took place in a lot of US cities.
Perhaps Trump should start having wigs of his hairdo mass produced and start lobbing the hairpieces at the protestors to neutralize them.
Other games developed by Mapagu include “No Bad Selfies,” “Make Pana Blue Eagle,” “Make Tuka Green Archer” and “Make Tusok the Fishball” which are based on iconic symbols that Filipino gamers could identify with.
