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Tuesday, 18 January 2011 19:09

14-Year-Old Whiz Kid Knocks Angry Birds Off Its Roost

Written by  Nathanial I. Jackson
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At the age of 14 this young man has managed to create something that many have dreamed, knocking off top seated Angry Birds off of its roost. Robert Nay toils away at game development. The 8th grader not only learned how to program his own iPhone game, but actually released it to hugely successful results.

This kid'sBubble Ball has floated to the top spot in the list of free downloads on the App Store, unseating former heavyweight champion Angry Birds. Bubble Ball was released on December 29, 2010, and has already been downloaded over 2 million times. It's also available for the Android, but is much more popular on the App Store.

Nay is apparently a computer genius that figured out the easiest path to releasing an app. He created Bubble Ball with the help of Ansca Mobile's Corona software development kit (SDK), which required the 14-year-old to learn the Lua programming language. Admittedly, Nay did get help from Mom as a level designer.

"I was pretty astonished," Nay told ABC News. "When I released it, I didn't think it would do so well."

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