iShoot, an independently developed title for the iPhone and iPod Touch that emerged as one of the iTunes App Store's biggest indie success stories to date, is now available for mobile phones worldwide.

Developer Ethan Nicholas introduced the Scorched Earth-inspired artillery sim iShoot in October of 2008 to an initially cool reception. Following the release of the extremely popular free trial version iShoot Lite in January of 2009, however, the paid edition of iShoot quickly took off in popularity.

At its peak, iShoot generated over $21,000 in daily revenue, and earned over $800,000 in its first five months of release. Following his app's success, Nicholas quit his day job to focus exclusively on iPhone development.

The new mobile version of iShoot is developed by Hands-On Mobile, and is available for download on all major carriers and application stores in the United States and worldwide through a distribution agreement with mobile publisher I-play.

"The success of iShoot is still amazing to me considering this was a game I developed in my free time because well, blowing up things is fun," said Nicholas. "With Hands-On Mobile bringing iShoot to other mobile platforms and making it available to so many more people, I will be very interested to follow the game's success. I can only hope that it follows the same path as the iTunes version."