How a Washing Machine Led to a Top Free iPad App -- Chrome Gekko's Bowmaster HD

It was the unlikeliest of beginnings for what became the top free iPad app last week in nearly 40 countries — an archery game called Bowmaster HD by German studio Chrome Gekko.

Thirty-one year old artist James Qureitem had just moved from Australia to Berlin to join his younger sister and brother in 2008. On a cold November day, he was carrying a washing machine across the street with the help of his mom, who had flown in to make sure he was settled.

Another recent Berlin transplant, Polish programmer Tore

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