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Reminds Me So Much Of Myself

When you were 14-years-old, what were you doing? Robert Nay is 14, and he's programming a hit game.

The eighth grader programmed the free physics-based puzzle game Bubble Ball for the iPhone, which knocked Angry Birds from the top spot on Apple's free app chart after being released on December 29. It's clocked over 2 million downloads.

Angry Birds was created by professionals. Bubble Ball was not. Nay, who built his first website in the third grade, created the game over the course of a month at the suggestion of a friend's dad, using software called Corona SDK, which he taught himself how to use.

"I had no idea that it would do so well and become the number one game," says the young game developer.

Nay is coy about what he's working on next. There are plans for possible paid Bubble Ball add-ons. With the money he earns, Nay plans to save for college and graduate school.

For Bubble Ball, Nay's mother drew some of the puzzles for the game, as well as washed his clothes and cooked his food, but says her son did the rest on his own.

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14 Year Old Creates Hot, New iOS Game

Angry Birds has finally been knocked down as the #1 game in the App Store. The game in question to knock it off? Bubble Ball.

Created by 14-year-old Robert Nay, Bubble Ball has only been out for a month and has already hit two million downloads. It was released under Nay's production company, Nay Games. With little assistance from mother Kari Nay, the 14-year-old used the Corona SDK from Ansca Mobile to create the physics-based puzzle game, and he also picked up the programming language Lua.

Young Nay worked for about a month and wrote 4000 lines of code for the game. According to an interview with ABC News, Nay was always great with software as he created his own website in the third grade.

Nay also says he's interested in adding an in-game currency and purchasing options for revenue in the future. He's also planning another app, which is classified. Here's the trailer for Bubble Ball.

[digitaltrends.]