Bubble Ball by Robert Nay 14 years old developer

[Asianknight82]

He's 14? I thought he was 10 lol

[sheMan32]

I've seen a game VERY similar before this. But still great achievement, well done : 

[TheAcenck]

People like this make it difficult for people like me to make excuses. No but seriously, Very cool.

[ImagedOps]

What gets me is that I'm also fourteen, yet when I tried to submit my first game to the App Store I was unable to due to my age. What is this shit?

[narutofan9tf]

Legend!

[Thechoosenhero]

All right... I feel like a dumb now ._.

[AussieAJ16]

Wow that's some crazy stuff. o_O

If a 14 year old can do it. Why can't some big time developers? lol

Comments?

[doctorseaweed2]

looks 11

[stupidlambo]

HE IS NOT 14

[ThoughtProcesstudio]

YOU PINT SIZED FOOL WHY YOU NO CHARGE APP XP seriously though this is a insane story.

[AGentertainment]

He didn't put advertisements on it? Angry Birds is free AND for purchase, but the free version has ads on it so they still make money off of it.

[MrScrewnicorn]

Cuz hes some spoiled rich kid who had a mac, 100 $ for apples ios developing membership. $200 for corona SDK. With all that shit anyone could make a game like that im not very amused try coding only with eclipse or html 5 or sumthin like that then u have my props

[davidarchuleta48326]

I love seeing Robert nays face everyday he goes to the same school with me for the food drive he donated over 500 items to help the homeless

[GeminiSon]

If I had a dollar for everytime it got downloaded...

[GeminiSon]

I should be recognized. I know PHP, MYSQL, jQuery and

created one of the most visited social bookmarking and networking sites, plus I'm redesigning my schools website, I'm getting interview from social media consultant, and going to be on front of my counties newspaper, plus be on the box and credits of a Nintendo DS, 3DS, etc game!

[DAN5675able]

@GeminiSon are you twelve or something? The news is only after children with those talents.

[GeminiSon]

@DAN5675able Im 12 today, so yes,

[whatnottobe]

Your are so cool Robert, I love that your my age and programming! I program for robotics but Im learning corona too! Your so cool!

[GOOB3000]

Woman has THE most annoying voice.

[GeminiSon]

its not a computer game, its an ios game. the news network are technologically stupids.

[ConnorAlves]

He would not have made $2,000,000 if he charged a dollar. Apple takes 30%, and plus he got 2,000,000 DLs because it was FREE. None the less, pretty amazing.

[GeminiSon]

If only i had a library with a whole SECTION/divison for computer programming and science with sql, asp.net, c#< c++, objective-c, perl, xml, pascal, mysql, html, php, objective-c i would be their everyday with my laptop. i would be the top-notch programmer

[LmfaoReviews]

@GeminiSon the only thing that you said that was acutly programming was c# and that other c . Oh and php but it's for web stuff .

[2011projectcitizen]

Really? BYU? You can go anywhere and you choose BYU? I think a kid that is 14 and made in iPhone app is smarter then that.

[Cohnan13]

Whick book?

[msuperstar32]

@Cohnan13 lol thats what im tryin figure out 

[FsimulatorX]

U ALL FUCKING NOOBS U PLAY XBOX AND PS3 10HR. A DAY AND YET CLAIM TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE GAMES LIKE THIS BUT HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO USE FUK U

[acpadhi]

@FsimulatorX

as if you know it all

he is just going to make the best banking app , you know ? and then have the economy crash, life is not a game.

does media have anything better than this ?

[GeminiSon]

@FsimulatorX xcode and ios sdk, objective-c, and the cocoa api p.s im 11 years old

[DAN5675able]

people stop saying you are a younger age than him and have created better games, because i know all of you guys are jealous

[iappleshahh]

So im 13 i created à verry verry cooler game And going to res esse on Apple fuck you noob

[Reload25]

where were apples cuts factored into that 2 million dollars? hmmm

[hallmichiel]

NERD ALERT.

[DaMercce]

@shfbdfi1273: You stupid? how a person can be jealous of a children?

He is not an expert.. he is not a programmer..

Keep doing good grades in school boy,then think about your future :-)

[hamhands69]

Wow so many haters on here.....most of you could barely jerk off at that age let alone program. Its ok. He will not hold it against you when you are flipping his burgers or fixing his car.

[CasserolePlease]

Poor kid will down when he's older, like all the clever asian prodigies you seen being experts at their chosen field by 14, they're suicidal or freaks by 20.

[VncentWu]

@CasserolePlease Can't say that's not true, but it's people like you that are the cause.

[freegamers97]

wtf everybody can do that , but most of them are lazy asses basement dwellers :D. there are tons of better games/mods created by 10 year olds for endorphin , check them out

[Slickaleka]

He wouldn't have made two million dollars if the app was a dollar. People download it because it's free

[NaChoDsK]

A boy.. just a S-I-M-P-L-E boy 14 years old and he thinks he's one of the best programmers around the world just because there's a fucking app from him in 1st place in the appStore?

That's ridiculous..

[jrk987]

@NaChoDsK GEEZUS! Stop hating....

They just did a frikin' interview and sensationalized it

He doesn't brag about it?

[MisterFrosty83]

@NaChoDsK

like i said before, he is like the most humble and quiet person i ever knew. how did you even get that from the video anyway?

[failwhale22]

comment revised and reposted: not too impressive, but quite good. he used the corona framework (afaik code is done in lua script), took teh easy way out. i'd be impressed if he grasps c++ and SDL/opengl/etc for game development. he's yet to make the switch from this abstract scripting-language shit to a real language--bye bye hash tables and event listeners and hello to the headache-inducing world of pointers and memory ~13 yo coder

[aliceaspen26]

this kid goes to my school he is preety cool. he made our schools game website and is amazing with the computers. so stop hating GO ROBERT!

[MisterFrosty83]

@aliceaspen26

I went there too and he was and awesome humble dude. GO ROBERT. 

[brandonscott1999]

i live in utah so can you tell me what the book is called?

[michaelstanger]

Pretty fun game. Finished it pretty fast can't wait for more levels

[punknart]

why are people so envious. I know the game idea is not new, so go all you lazy and transform an existing game into an iphone one. I bet there are millions of games in the app store that already exist and doesnt have the same downloads. This guy chose the correct one.

[briceDew]

dude this aint no invention, this game has been existing for ages, and there wouldnt have been 2million downloads if we had to pay for it so no 2000000$

[LeonLovesIt]

cool boy!

[MrSlrrp]

what he neglected to mention was that to even begin developing an app costs hundreds of dollars

[atxagent00b]

morman.......

[Eddyperoguitars]

Good boy !

[joelhihi]

I'm a shit! lol

[GuitarYourNipples]

14!!! Poor chap looks 9.

[nobocks]

he invented nothin... ok i gonna make some iphone apps

[druidmechanics]

Cool, I'm happy for him. Even if he didn't write his engine, he wrote and published the game, and that takes discipline.

[KingMickeyROLZ]

ronoj2 ur a butt kisser. everyone rits tutorials, thats not gonna get u a partnership

[ronoj2]

i love this guy for making this game lol im soon getting partner ship for making a tutorial on it!!! XD

[KingMickeyROLZ]

and don't put down people who play games cuz he only made this to play it cuz he didnt charge

[KingMickeyROLZ]

He's 14 and he "invented" a game that has existed forever. Even so, if you couldn't be clever enough to frickin charge a dollor, u don't diserve it. Get sum puberty.

[kumbaso18]

Angry Birds were downloaded 36 million times!!!!

[AltoMangaka]

I can't believe that people becomes famous for thos idiotic things. Anyone would need just a week to learn how to program a game like that. There are people who helps the others, people who tries to help the ones who are poor and who dies...And this is what is popular, this for a stupid little game. What a shame.

[ushuaia213]

@AltoMangaka Yes, you're right, There are people who do things better than that.

Now tell me, what did you do?Are you helpiing poor people?Why don't you take a week, develop a game and then use the money to help poor people?Is that easy?really?Why don't you became rich?

Shut the fuck up, yes you are right but you are doing nothing

What am i doing?Nothing just like you, but at least i don't complain, and i believe that kid idea was pretty good

[AltoMangaka]

@ushuaia213 Yes. I always help the others. I give support to everyone, help to surpass their bad times, I do free works for the people who needs, teach what I know to kids or boys of school, teach how to program with the pc, i help them when they have problems with the pc or else. I don't need to become rich. I just like to help the others. So shut the fuck up? I do nothing? What the heck you know of what I do? You have a crystal ball so you can see what I do?

[AltoMangaka]

@ushuaia213 I don't need thanks from the people I help, cause they often answer in bad ways or leaving me. But no problem. Did I post some kind of complain? It was just an opinion. Everyone seem to have te right to have their idea of things. Well that's my opinion too. And I do not believe youre capable of a so nice thing to see what I do or not do, genious. I have things to attend, au revoir.

[AltoMangaka]

@ushuaia213 Uh, another thing. Regarding that game. Are you sure that kid made it? I didn't see him creating it. Then I have the doubt. Take care

[thegingabishouen]

@ushuaia213

Hmmm.....Guess you don't live in a free country????? Because I thought you could voice your opinions regardless of how wrong they may or may not be.

[kikohp]

You go young man..excellent!!! Nice that this kid has actually put his time to account, unlike most other kids of today that vegetate in front of the TV or on their mobile phones

[theanzer]

i like how the news makes him sound sooo nice. the only i reason i downloaded the app was because it was free, and i wanted to be the billionth person to download an app. I especially like the part when they say it beat angry birds off the top spot, like jesus christ, angry birds has been at the top of the PADI APPS for like the whole year of 2010. It must be the most downloaded game on the app store.

[henrybechtold]

It restores my hope for the future when I see a young person who can see opportunities and works to do something creative and beneficial to his future. I am also happy to see parents who are supportive and giving good direction to their children. This is a win, win, win. I thank the Nay family et al

[mercurialism]

This game is a rip-off of an existing game on the pc.

[TheXD8D]

@mercurialism Yeah, its on addicting games.

[EthanTerryTV]

Wow hes is a NERD!!!!

[EthanTerryTV]

do they even do research before making news reports? first of all, apple gets 30% of all sales. that means that would mean he would get $1.4 million. and who says that everyone who downloaded it would be willing to pay? Also you cant make it a dolar you make it 9 cents, so if it was dowloaded 2millin times he would even have 1 million dollors...... also it knocked out the light version of angry birds witch no one dowloads!!!!!!

[dootzky]

even if he sold 2.000.000 copies for $1, he would still have to give 30% to apple, so he wouldn't make $2.000.000 in any case, and like the @altay8 said, if he made the price $1 - he wouldn't have reached this popularity boost.

anyway, cute kid, best of luck to him in the future, this attention is very useful for his moral boost and inspiration for more cool future development.

[TheMedaTube]

@dootzky listen again she said more than 2 millions app!

[nonikita]

He looks like hes 7, not 14.

[nidzaPFC]

Fake

[UnlEaDeDfUels]

this woman doesn't understand price elasticity. talented kid though

[mantis84]

About research :

The only thing this young fellow did was to convert an already existing game as an iphone app. Sure, thats still some nice work, but all news credit him as the developer of that game whats wrong since you can play these "physic ball games" on flashgame-sites for the last ..i guess .. 5 years or more.

[mrmittens12]

@mantis84 not only that, but the book he got on Corona SDK likely had a similar sample application. the only reason Corona featured this is probably because they knew he was 14 and wanted this publicity.

[protobuddha]

@mantis84 A shame that none of us thought to do that years ago! Most people don't know about flashgames so when they get it on the iphone they think it's new supertechnology

[408mikedennis]

@mantis84

im sorry how many iphone apps have you made?

[CheersProduction]

@408mikedennis 12 and I am 12 years old

[warrengonline]

@mantis84 His is on the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad.... Flash what? I guess you need to apply that to Angry Birds also. As it is so true. :)

[14energy]

99 cents is money well spend to support this kid

[mrmittens12]

do they even do research before making news reports? first of all, apple gets 30% of all sales. that means that would mean he would get $1.4 million. and who says that everyone who downloaded it would be willing to pay?

[MystikalQC]

wow, even for 0.99$ i would buy any game, even if it's shit. imagine, 2,000,000$ at 14... ahahah awesome

[altay8]

If he had charge a dollar for the application he would not have had two million downloads...

[splix00]

@altay8 If he would have charged a dollar apple would take 1/3 of all profits he makes plus he'd have to pay taxes!

[shfbdfi1273]

@altay8 Jealous?

[acpadhi]

@altay8

very well and practically said :)



[whatnottobe]

@altay8 exactly, when i see a .99 cent app, i say "forget it"

[warrengonline]

@altay8 Um, you must not have played this game it is fun and I an a few friends wondered "Why didn't they charged $0.99 for this app and make some milk and snack money. We also thought it was a class of kids with teachers who made it. I'd gladly pay $0.99 for it as it blows away a lot of apps I've paid $4.99. But then if you've EVER played The Incredible Machine, you'll see why many fans would have gladly paid for this.

[aliceaspen26]

he goes to my school!! he made the most amazing gaming website for our school!!

[FsimulatorX]

@aliceaspen26 what's the website?

[alnelsurpia]

amazing

[salakast]

holy shit, $2,000,000!!! this kids got mad skillz