Bubble Ball by 14-year-old Robert Nay has been downloaded more than 2m times from Apple’s iTunes store
The time may have come for those irate avians and thieving pigs to cease hostilities and join forces against a new and even less likely enemy.
Angry Birds, the time-wasting phenomenon that has ruled the smartphone roost for the last year, has finally been vanquished by a 14-year-old boy and the game he devised with the help of his mum and the local library.
On paper, Robert Nay’s Bubble Ball – described as a “fun, new physics puzzle game” – does not look quite as thrilling as Angry Birds, which ushers players into an inexplicable realm where they can catapult feathered missiles into a variety of structures that shelter the green pigs who have stolen their eggs.
But the Utah wonderboy’s brainchild has now been downloaded more than 2m times and last week knocked Angry Birds off its perch at the top of the free games in Apple’s iTunes store.
