By Benson McCulloch

Saskatoon men develop top selling iPhone app

Dec 19, 2010 | 7:25 AM

Could the world's next internet millionaire be from Saskatoon?

A pair of local men are flying high after an iPhone game they developed in their spare time made a big opening splash on Apple's App Store.

Super Stick Golf is the work of programmer, Jordan Schidlowsky, and graphic artist, Ty Bader. The pair describe their game as a two dimensional puzzle game with a soundtrack reminiscent of 1980s Nintendo games.

Since the game's release on Dec. 10, it has reached the “Top 25 Paid Apps” list in iTunes stores in four countries. On Tuesday, Super Stick Golf was #22 in Canada, #19 in the US, #11 in the UK, and and #24 in Ireland.

As of Tuesday, more than 20,000 copies of Super Stick Golf have been sold, Schidlowsky said, at the cost of 99 cents each.

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“We released the game with zero expectations but the response has been awesome,” Schidlowsky said. “We're going to keep updating this game and maybe start thinking about our next one.”

Eric Neufeld, head of the University of Saskatchewan's Computer Science Department, considers the early success of the game remarkable, considering it is competing with approximately 300,000 other apps on Apple's App Store.

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