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Tapulous CEO Bart Decrem touts new Riddim Ribbon game

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decrem1Tapulous is one of the primary beneficiaries of Apple’s AppStore. Its various Tap Tap Revenge games have been downloaded more than 10 million times. Past stats have shown that more than one in three iPhone/iPod Touch owners have used the app. As such, the company dominates the music rhythm game market on the iPhone, striking deals with music companies even as giant game companies loom on the sidelines with franchises such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero. Bart Decrem, chief executive of Tapulous, went up on stage at Apple’s event in San Francisco this morning to tout a new music game, Riddim Ribbon. We talked with him about it and the benefits of Apple’s new Genius feature, which can automatically group similar apps together and recommend new apps to users, based on their tastes.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.