Goodbye Angry Birds. Make way for Bubble Ball.
Unfortunately for Rovio there's a new kid on the block; fourteen-year old Robert Nay.
The programming prodigy built the latest smash-hit iOS game with the help of his mother Kari.
During the past two weeks Bubble Ball has been downloaded more than 2 million times and last week, it nabbed the top spot on the list of free games in Apple’s iTunes store, knocking the ever-popular Angry Birds to second place.
“I was pretty astonished; I didn’t think it would do so well" Nay said about the game’s success.
Nay’s mother, Kari Nay, said that like most young teenagers, Robert and his friends enjoy playing games on their iPods. But Robert started building a game of his own after a few friends suggested he give it a try.
“Since they know Robert’s good with computers, they suggested he make one,” she said.
So, after he did some research in the public library and found a program, Ansca Mobile’s Corona SDK (software developer’s kit) Robert spent a couple of hours each day on the game for a month (writing more than 4,000 lines of computer code.)
If you're interested, Bubble Ball is a “fun, new physics puzzle game, where you will test your ingenuity and thinking skills to get the bubble to the goal” according to its market description.
All that's stopping us from worldwide gaming fame and ultimately thousands of dollars is a few thousand lines of computer codes.
Source: ABC