Super Political Dodgeball - NOT Coming Soon
We’re sad to report that Super Political Dodgeball will not be seeing the light of day. After weeks of waiting, conversation and re-submitting, Apple has informed us that there’s no way our game could be released under the terms of their Community Standards. They’ve stated that “Defaming, demeaning, or attacking particular political candidates, specifically hitting Barack Obama or John McCain with a ball, is not appropriate.”
We here at downfallout worked long and hard to make Super Political Dodgeball a stellar and timely release and we truly believed it would have been a success. Finding out that our work would never be released was incredibly surprising and disappointing, to say the least. We sincerely hope that someday, Apple will change their application submission policy to be more transparent and accommodating to developers.
We’d like to thank all of our friends and beta testers for loading the game on their phones and giving us such great feedback. Now that the game won’t be released, you have the added incentive of having a rare jewel on your iPhones. ; )
About the game
Description of Super Political Dodgeball for iTunes App Store
Below is the description we submitted to accompany the game in the App Store:
The year is 2008. The US presidential election has ended in an unprecedented and statistically confounding perfect tie. After weeks of wrangling and exhausted debate, the US Supreme Court takes the suggestion of Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia and orders that Republican candidate John McCain and Democratic candidate Barack Obama be immediately flash-cloned (a process recently invented by Senator Byrd). The clones are then to participate in a prison-rules match of dodgeball to determine who will be the next president.
Players can determine the election by taking control of their candidate’s clones and guiding them to victory. Super Political Dodgeball, set in various locations around Washington D.C., is the first and only action sports game for the iPhone to feature two former–and at least one future–US presidents, cloning, flaming dodgeballs, innovative analog controls, sweet sound effects and…did we mention cloning? Awesome.
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What you missed
First and foremost, we designed Political Dodgeball to be a fun and comical throwback to some of our favorite 8-bit “sports” games from the NES and arcade era. We also designed the game to be a voter registration tool. 
Through an affiliation with Rock the Vote, users could access a section of our website from the opening menu of the game and fill out a voter registration form. We also designed the game to be completely bipartisan. John McCain played from the right of the screen and Barack Obama played from the left. Aside from those points, both sides were exactly the same.
The game was “Super” in that it was the sequel to our original hit from 2004 for cell phones and PDAs, Political Dodgeball. Guess who the players in that game were.
Below is a somewhat blurry demo of Super Political Dodgeball in action.
What do you think?
Thoughts, questions, comments? Would you like to see the game distributed from our website? Please feel free to leave your input below.