In fact, Temple Run was the work of a husband-and-wife team, Keith Shepherd and partner Natalia Luckyanova.
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Atari will no doubt take a page from the Temple Run playbook as they concentrate on mobile games.
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"The success of our game Temple Run in 2012 was nothing short of astonishing, " said Keith Shepherd, co-founder of Imangi Studios.
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The recently released iOS title Temple Run 2 was downloaded more than 20 million times within four days since its release on January 18.
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But as Temple Run keeps racing to more fans and money, the franchise is marking a course for other entrepreneurial game makers to follow.
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Should Temple Run 2 show the same legs as its predecessors, and the franchise would reach more total downloads than there are people in the United States.
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Another draw for "Temple Run" is its colorful imagery.
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The success of "Temple Run" has taken over Imangi.
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Temple Run has its own games, apparel and comics.
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To some degree, the time people were using to play first-person shooters on consoles has been sucked up by people playing Words With Friends or Temple Run 2 on their mobile phones.
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We had a chance to play a bit of Pac Man and Temple Run on an iPad and the control was really quite good, though, the device's housing isn't complete as you can plainly see in the pic above.
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The Windows Phone Store has 120, 000 apps to choose from, with hundreds added every day and hits coming this holiday, such as "Angry Birds Star Wars, " "Cut the Rope Experiments, " "Disney's Where's My Water, " "LivingSocial, " "Temple Run, " "Urbanspoon" and many more.
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Notables we're still waiting for include: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Dropbox, Mint, PageOnce, TripIt, NPR, NYTimes, Angry Birds, Draw Something, Words with Friends, Temple Run, Spotify, Springpad, Remember the Milk, Amazon, Instapaper, Pocket (formerly Read it Later), Flipboard, Steam, Instagram, Nook, Zinio and Rdio.
But given how diverse the market has grown with drugstores like CVS and Walgreens winning, small teams like the husband-wife duo behind Temple Run, and even high-end malls developing luxe apps of their own running a free scan still seems a worthwhile step for many companies getting into the native app game.
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Along with a current line-up of more than 90 compatible games, including the five star No Gravity, Outfoxed, Silverfish, Temple Run, Super Crossfire HD, Air Attack HD and Terra Noctis, Gametel for iOS devices also supports iCADE's suite of classic retro games with over 100 titles available to download from the Apple iTunes App Store.
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For now, there are no first-party apps for Facebook and Twitter, which remains true on Windows 7 as well. (Twitter, at least, says it will have an app in the coming months.) Other missing biggies include: Foursquare, Mint, PageOnce, TripIt, NPR, Draw Something, Words with Friends, Temple Run, Spotify, Springpad, Remember the Milk, Instapaper, Pocket (formerly Read it Later), Flipboard, Steam, Instagram, Nook and Rdio.
Many of the stores and market stalls near the temple are run by Chinese migrants.
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In 1961 he met Zen master Shunryu Suzuki, who was running a small Buddhist temple in a run-down former synagogue.
The tours of Temple Square are run with small vans departing and returning from each terminal from 11AM- 5:30 PM and are free to anyone holding a boarding pass or ticket.
The soft-spoken eldest son of a Buddhist monk, Oshima grew up on the grounds of the Nagoya temple his family has run for 27 generations.
There is no reason why defending the right of money changers to operate free from onerous regulations should translate into letting the counterfeiters run amok and the temple priests loot the public treasury.
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The planned routes run from Ashton Vale to Temple Meads, and from Hengrove to Cribbs Causeway.
On a trip to Pompeii to study the Temple of Apollo, they stayed in a family-run hotel and dined on wonderful food in the hotel's courtyard at night.
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