Meet Max Polhill, developer extraordinaire

by on March 1, 2013 in Blog, Opinions

Max Polhill has recently released his physics puzzler game ‘Stellar Alien’ on Google Play and in the Chrome Web Store. It’s his first title released under his studio, Xavier Games. Max is also only 14 years old.

I’ve been in the games industry for 15+ years and it’s not often that I’m bowled over, but Max Polhill has done just that. Being a title’s sole developer and shipping it is a grand achievement in and of itself, but accomplishing this at age 14 is just plain incredible.

If you have a chance, do check out his app – It’s a fun little puzzler with a merciless level of difficulty. You can also find the link to his developer blog in my blog roll.

Screenshots from ‘Stellar Alien’

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2 comments on “Meet Max Polhill, developer extraordinaire”

  1. Max on said:

    Thanks for the write up. Getting Stellar Alien’s audio to work properly wouldn’t have been an easy task if it wasn’t for your talk about how you built the audio system for Hyper Grav.

    • ChrisK on said:

      Thanks for those kind words, Max.

      I can’t wait to see what you have planned for your second title.