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How this 14-year-old girl designed, developed, and released her own mobile game

When I was 14, the coolest thing I made was a 2-by-4 piece of wood that had a wedge in it. I used it to take off my snowy or muddy boots without having to use my hands. I wasn’t crafty, but it turns out now all 14-year-old kids aren’t like me — at least when it comes to code.

Crazy Block is a new free Android game available right now on Google Play. It’s also the creation of 14-year-old Spanish girl Lucia Sanchez, who taught herself how to develop a game and released it earlier this month all on her own. She is the latest example of how open tools and platforms are enabling anyone with the will to make game and find an audiences. Sanchez is from Alicante, a town in Southeast Spain. She’s a student, and — in addition to developing games — she’s into windsurfing, painting, and reading. Sanchez is also a web designer. We spoke with her to ask her more about Crazy Block, her process, and more.

“I started making games about two years ago, when my parents bought me a new computer,” Sanchez told GamesBeat. “I found on the Internet the story about a boy who was 14 years old and had created a game that had over a million downloads, so I though that was amazing and I wanted to do something like that.”