Sat, Feb 14, 2009 | 09:28 GMT
Self-taught coder takes $660K in one month with iPhone game
Ethan Nicholas, a bedroom coder who created an iPhone game called iShoot, has raked in more than $600,000 in one month from Apples App Store.
Shoot’s a tank artillery game, and was launched in January. The title earned Nicholas $37,000 in its first day.
“I’m not going to be a millionaire in the next month, but I’d be shocked if it didn’t happen at the end of the year,” he said in a phone interview with Wired.
“If it weren’t for taxes I would be a millionaire right now.”
Nicholas is an engineer at Sun Microsystems, and after pulling an eight hour-shift he would come home and work on iShoot another eight hours. The self-taught coder held his one year-old son in one hand and coded with the other until the game was finished.
iShoot has been the number one iPhone app for 26 days straight.
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Posted in: App Store, Apple, Arcade, Casual, Development, Shooter, iPhone, iPod
Tags: ethan nicholas, ishoot, tank artillery game
6 comments
#1
Mike
14/02/09, 11:38 am
The dictionary definition of the word “winner”
#2
scuz
14/02/09, 11:51 am
amazing what you can do with one abandonware title on a new platform
#3
Quiiick
14/02/09, 1:26 pm
No, we’re not jealous at all …
#4
Cort
14/02/09, 1:49 pm
Noooooooooooooooooooo. Another iPhone article!
:O(
Sorry, guess I’ll have to deal with this.
#5
brennan40
14/02/09, 2:25 pm
All these popular iPhone/iPod games seem to be remade flash games anyone could find for free on the net.
I’m not knocking him, just suggesting to anyone who can code, to go rip off some of those flash games and pay me a small 20% amount for giving ya the idea.
#6
odessa
14/02/09, 6:53 pm
But no one will download Death Tanks on XBLA when it finally arrives