Singapore-MIT game Dark Dot hits 448k downloads; popular in Asia

December 27, 2011 by  

Dark Dot, a Singapore-developed top-down shooter that offers a refreshing take on the genre, has achieved success.

Downloaded over 448,000 times, the app became the top action game in 48 countries, including China, US, and Singapore, and also the top free app in Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia, reported TODAY.

All this in just three months after its launch in October.

The game is a product of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, a program supported by the National Research Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA).  Read more