A video game you've never heard of has turned three teens into multimillionaires — and it's just getting started

in videogame •  8 years ago 

Source: Business Insider

This past February, Alex Balfanz spent much of his 18th birthday on an important phone call discussing the future of his video game business. 

About three weeks earlier, Balfanz and his business partner had published a cops-and-robbers video game called "Jailbreak" on Roblox.  Although Balfanz and his partner had created Roblox games before, "Jailbreak" was their first overnight success, hitting about 75,000 simultaneous players on the day it launched and maintaining that level afterward. "Jailbreak" is on track to generate "seven figures" in revenue this year, and Balfanz said he's already made enough to cover the entire four-year cost of his undergraduate education at Duke University, where he plans to study artificial intelligence starting this autumn. 

Now, Roblox's developer relations department wanted to pick Balfanz's brain about the game's success and figure out how they could work together. It was just the exclamation mark on a period where he had to manage both the last few months of his senior year of high school, and a growing community of paying players.

"That was pretty crazy," said Balfanz, who lives in Florida "A lot of things happening at once." 

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He must be a genius to be so successful in what he does. Congratulations.

This sounds amazing. I'm going to check out the game and see if it's worth the hype.

P.S. My kids will definitely be coders! lol...

Having you kids to be coders is the ticket! :) Have to start them out young! Lol :)

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