Abdulrahman Alzanki is an iPhone app developer. He currently has six iPhone games to his name, one of which averages 20,000 downloads per day. No he's not some 30-year-old computer science grad working directly under Steve Jobs. He's a 10th grader from Kuwait. That's right. He's a 14-year-old gaming entrepreneur.

Alzanki's digitized obsession sprouted out of his tinkering with his brothers' computers. At just 11 years old, he began learning how to create websites, and at 14 he began work on his first iPhone apps.

A gamer at heart, Alzanki's current endeavor is fueled by his interest in how the games of his past were created. This curiosity, encouraged by a close friend, led him to develop his first game for the iPhone, which took him just two weeks to make. The project, which started out between friends, exploded into an international application sensation.

Abdulrahman Alzanki's flagship iPhone app, Doodle Destroy, is now ranked in the top 50 of U.S. applications. With over 880,000 downloads, this free game is sure to have your fingers--and your mind--working overtime. The object is to make a blue block come to rest on top of a gray block whilst eliminating the red blocks that elevate the blue one. Sound complicated? It certainly can be. Luckily there's varying difficulties. Regardless, good timing and strategy is the key to completing this real time physics game.

Alzanki says "[his] goal is to reach the top 10 in the U.S. app store. [His] ultimate goal is Stanford." With the résumé that he's already built up online, I have no doubt that this 14-year-old, Kuwaiti entrepreneur will live out his dreams.

Oh, and did I mention he's only been a developer for about five months? He had zero programming experience before that.

--Chris

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