Not surprisingly, he is keen to work in computing and is thinking of ways to make money from his talent. Having dispatched the Angry Birds with vulpine ferocity, Nay is now giving some thought to his future. Ten days ago, Ansca chose Bubble Ball as its app of the week and it began creeping up the apps ladder. "You go 'yeah right', and then you realise there's a lot of little tricks to make this actually work." "Because it's so simple, I think I can beat it," he said. The key, he told ABC, was the game's apparent straightforwardness.
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Within a fortnight, the game had caught the eye of the industry.Īccording to Carlos Icaza – the co-founder of Ansca Mobile, the company which makes the software developer's kit that Nay used, Bubble Ball quickly "brought the entire staff to a halt". On 29 December last year, his company, Nay Games, launched an Apple-compatible version of the app.
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"But then there were times when things just worked and I would be like: 'Maybe I can actually do this'."Įventually, after more than a month and 4,000 lines of code, he cracked it, and Bubble Ball – which "will test your ingenuity and thinking skills to get the bubble to the goal" – was born. "There were some times when I felt like, 'Can people seriously do this?' It seemed impossible," said Nay. The teenager accepted their challenge and went to the public library to investigate programs that would help him build his game.Įven with a little design help from his mum, however, it was not easy. "Since know Robert's good with computers, they suggested that he should make one," Nay's mother, Kari, told ABC News. On paper, Robert Nay's Bubble Ball – described as a "fun, new physics puzzle game" – does not look quite as thrilling as Angry Birds, which ushers players into an inexplicable realm where they can catapult feathered missiles into a variety of structures that shelter the green pigs who have stolen their eggs.īut the Utah wonderboy's brainchild has now been downloaded more than 2m times and last week knocked Angry Birds off its perch at the top of the free games in Apple's iTunes store.Īnd whereas the bird bombardment was devised by the 17-strong team at the Finnish game-making company Rovio, Bubble Ball was the result of little more than peer pressure and some serious after-school dedication.
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