iGirl: The Sexiest (Apple Approved) iPhone Application

Apple is pretty notorious for keeping the iPhone app store, ahem, family-friendly (regardless of all the other ways porn may sneak onto the device)—but they can't keep everything suggestive out of the store.

iGirl, a new application from Resistor Productions, isn't exactly porny—but it's not completely innocent either. Toeing a rather suggestive line, the program allows you to download a CGI girl into your iPhone... and dress her, undress her, shake her around, and make her dance.

We took some time to talk to Tobias Batton from Resistor Productions to learn a little more about his app—and what other plans he has in store.

First off: tell us a little about iGirl. What does it do, who is it for, and what's your personal favorite feature?
iGirl is basically a 3d model of a hot babe in your iPhone, or iPod touch. She has some simple AI that makes her talk to you (in English or Russian). If you shake the phone, she will keep herself from falling over and her booty will jiggle. You can make her dance, which is my favorite feature, I like to zoom in on her booty while she is dancing. You can also change her hair, clothes, ethnicity, her language, and even name her (I named mine after my girlfriend Samantha).

Apple has been notoriously against having adult products in the app store—did you have any concerns that, even as a merely suggestive product, iGirl might get rejected?
We were very concerned that our app would not be accepted. We didn't want to make an app if it didn't have a real chance of making it to the top 50 apps though, and in our mind this was really the only thing missing. iBeer, iFart, iShoot, iCopter, hmmmm . . . . . . I know! iGirl!. Anyways, we didn't want to make an app at all if it didn't have a chance, and this was what we thought of. We built the app pretty basic, and now that we are approved and currently #68 overall, we are working on new features like madmen. Users can expect more animations, custom voices, and some new social sharing features here in the next few weeks, this app will become rather robust.

Do you have any other applications in the works for the iPhone?
We currently have a web based game we have been working on for nearly a year. This game will be playable via a web browser, and we will also port it to the iPhone. Also, if we hear a demand large enough, we will make iBoy, but so far very few people have asked for it.

Where do you see the line between suggestive and sexual? How do you manage to make something that's hot, and even arousing, that still manages to pass under the radar?
Well, what I told my dev team is to keep it PG-13. You can have pretty suggestive themes in a PG-13 film, without actually seeing anything, and thats what we kept in our mind. Apple's rules are a bit vague, but we want to respect them to the best of our ability while providing some entertainment value for their user base.

· iGirl (resistorproductions.com)