It’s a project I’ve been wanting to make all year, and I finally got around to slapping it together in a weekend a couple weeks ago. Part irony and part social and political commentary, Buy the Leaderboard is an app about the state of mobile gaming and the overwhelming power of wealth in our culture.
Buy the Leaderboard is exclusively available on Android since Apple rejected the app on the grounds that ‘paying money to get points for a leaderboard is something [they] are fundamentally not okay with’. The reveal of blatant hypocrisy is almost as satisfying as any other outcome, but Android users are still able to buy points to add their name to the leaderboard.
Although (to the credit of humanity) the leaderboard has remained relatively silent, I’ve been extremely pleased with the reviews on the Google Play store, which all seem to understand exactly where I’m coming from. Benedict Hobart sums it up perfectly in his review:
I was once corrupted by dreams of a big house and a nice car but that all changed when i found this game! I’m so happy I have something so much more worth while to invest all my money in and teach me the glory of capitalism! This game teaches you how to easily destroy you enemies and lead the world using nothing but money 11/10 will play again
