29 and had a million downloads in the first two weeks.
Corona was easy to use, he said, and also let him write once and publish for both Apple and Android devices.īubble Ball showed up in the app store on Dec. In the end, he settled on the Corona tools from Ansca Mobile. He tried another tool called GameSalad, but didn’t like the results. At first he tried the standard Objective-C programming tools, but found the learning curve a little steep. Some months back, a friend suggested that if Nay liked his iPod touch so much, perhaps he should try his hand at programming for it. When he’s not at the computer (or school) he also likes reading, especially science fiction, and playing the piano and trumpet. He also has some other ideas for games he’d like to write down the road.Īlthough it’s his first game, Nay has been into computers for some time, including Web programming and helping others with their computers. Nay said he plans to add more levels to the free game and then eventually add still more games as an in-app purchase. “I was pretty surprised by how well it was doing,” Nay told Mobilized. In recent days, though, it has been rivaling Angry Birds Lite atop the list of most downloaded free games.
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Nay spent the better part of a couple of months writing the game, which debuted in the App Store late last year and is also available for Android devices.
The game challenges players to use objects and gravity to guide a ball to its destination.
While Angry Birds is still the top paid iPhone game, a game written by an eighth-grader has spent the last few days atop Apple’s free charts.īubble Ball, a physics simulator, was coded by Robert Nay, a 14-year-old from Spanish Fork, Utah.
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