Step aside Angry Birds, Bubble Ball is on the rise in the Apple App Store. Now featured as the number one free game, Bubble Ball was created by a 14 year old boy from Spanish Fork, Utah. Now that Robert Nay has taken the App Store crown, what’s next for the 8th grade prodigy?
4,000 lines of code, 2 hours a day of programming per day and a month’s time was all it took for Robert Nay to dominate Apple’s App Store. During the past two weeks Robert’s game, Bubble Ball has been downloaded more than two million times. The massive spike of downloads culminated in the number one position among free apps, ousting Angry Birds from the pole position.
Robert’s mother, Kari said that he started building the game after some of his friends suggested he give it a try. He began his journey in the public library where he found a program, Ansca Mobile’s Corona SDK, that helped him simplify the process. A month later, Robert has completed the puzzle game which he describes as a “fun, new physics puzzle game, where you will test your ingenuity and thinking skills to get the bubble to the goal”.
As a programmer myself, I find the news of Robert Nay extremely inspiring. So much so that I think it’s time to pay the $100 fee and submit my application to begin developing apps for the App Store. Thank you Robert, you’ve inspired us all. Anyone else out there going to join me and get off the bench to enter this App Store phenomena?
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