The outrageously entertaining and addictive `Cut the Rope' app - among the first apps to have made its way to Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview - is a big title which, originally available only on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99, has been downloaded over 60 million times thus far.

`Cut the Rope' app, which has landed on the Windows 8 Metro interface, is one of the apps which are presently available `for free' in the Windows App Store for the desktop OS update which has been downloaded by nearly one million people in 24 hours.

Developed by ZeptoLabs, but ported by a five-person development design shop called PixelLab, the `Cut the Rope' app gameplay essentially involves a rope, a famished green blob, and the players' ability to feed the blob as well as hit the floating stars.

Noting that `Cut the Rope' was not initially meant to ported for Windows 8, Robby Ingebretsen - founder of Creative Director of PixelLab - said that the title landed on the Windows platform only after Microsoft helped connect PixelLab with ZeptoLabs for an Internet Explorer 9 port.

Further adding that a large part of the heavy lifting of the `Cut the Rope' app, including taking its C++ code and changing it to HTML 5 and JavaScript, was done in 2011, Ingebretsen said that the final process of bringing the app to Windows 8 Metro was a rather trifling task which just took around 10 days to be completed.