Admit it, you were getting a bit sick of those little slingshotting fowl. Well, a new champion has arisen, taking the much-coveted top spot on the iTunes free apps list. The game Bubble Ball follows a pretty simple premise–the user place a series of simple machines in strategic spots on the screen, in order to roll a ball to the finish line.
But where many of the titles that have snagged the top spot have been the work of a team of experienced programmers and game designers (like, say, Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds), Bubble Ball is largely the product of a single designer–Robert Nay, a 14-year-old eighth grader from Utah.
Nay did most of the game development using a few tools like Corona DSK, a $349 program that lets the user create a game and publish it to the App Store. Nay also got a little design help from his mom.
The 14-year-old started work on Bubble Ball back in November, launching it on December 29th. Since then, the app has been downloaded 1.5 million times. Over the weekend, it beat out the free version of the incredibly popular Angry Birds.
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