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The first Lima Sky attempt in that field was a game called Eat Bunny Eat. “Three months into the process we were still working on it and it turned out to be more difficult than we thought.” But it was one of the first titles on the App Store, and that conveyed a lesson: “Even such a simple little app could sell and could make you some money”.

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“How difficult can it be to create a bubble wrap simulator?” The answer: it was harder than the Pušenjaks figured, especially as both had no Mac programming experience. Lima Sky’s first app attempt was a bubble wrap emulator. our idea from the very beginning was just to create very simple apps that we would charge 99 cents for and we figured it would be very easy for people to actually spend 99 cents if they didn’t have to fill out their credit card information and mailing address and all that.” At the time the App Store was introduced, there were already 10 million people who had the iPhone and those 10 million already had their credit card information on file with Apple, and all it would take for them to purchase an app for 99 cents was a touch on a screen. “In 2007 Steve Jobs introduced the App Store for the iPhone and we both immediately saw the opportunity to really jump onto it. The release of the iPhone provided that opportunity: not particularly because it was a great platform technically, but because Apple already had a ready audience of potential app buyers and a payment mechanism to take money from them. We never really worked together, and over the years we always wanted to find a way for us to work together on some project,” Igor said. “Over the years we started working more and more in the computer field. Both pursued careers in computing, but it wasn’t until the emergence of the iPhone that they founded Lima Sky and began to work together. I warmed to Igor immediately when he admitted that his interest in computing began when he and his brother Marko started writing programs for the ZX Spectrum a lifetime or more ago in Croatia.

(By the way, Kotaku editor Mark Serrels is a Doodle Jump tragic, and he hasn’t forgiven me for grabbing the chance to go to the event.) Lima Sky co-founder Igor Pušenjak spoke at the One More Thing 2012 iOS app development conference in Melbourne over the weekend, and gave an in-depth insight into how Doodle Jump came about and how it became so successful: “a mobile game classic”, in his own modest words. How did developer Lima Sky get from there to Doodle Jump being a more famous app than anything not called Angry Birds? The answer is a strange mix of snack food, bubble wrap, blogger nagging, brotherly co-operation and sheer luck. Doodle Jump is now an icon of iPhone gaming, but it almost died at launch after selling just 21 copies on its first day of release.