Alex Balfanz, (born May 5, 1999) known online as badcc, is an American video game developer who is the programmer and co-creator of the ''

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'' game ''Jailbreak''.

Early life

Born in 1999, Balfanz began to code games using

Roblox Studio Roblox (, ) is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users. It was created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 200 ...

at the age of 9. Balfanz's father worked as a programmer, which Balfanz cites as one of the main reasons for his early interest in coding. He attended high school at the

Trinity Preparatory School Trinity Preparatory School is an independent college preparatory day-school for students in grades 6 to 12, in Winter Park, a suburb of Orlando, Florida in the United States. It is affiliated with the Episcopal Church and is accredited by th ...

. Prior to releasing ''Jailbreak'', Balfanz had made several other games on ''Roblox'', which he stated had made him "maybe a couple thousand" dollars.

Career

In January 2016, Balfanz and his business partner, who goes by "asimo3089", created the game ''Volt'', an open-world game in which players complete

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s. In January 2017, Balfanz, along with asimo3089, uploaded ''Jailbreak'', a cops-and-robbers game, to ''Roblox''. On its first day of release, it reached 70,000 concurrent players, a number which Balfanz later said had shocked him. It quickly became one of the most popular games on the platform, and made Balfanz a

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Personal life

Balfanz attended

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, where he paid off his college debt using funds from his games. Balfanz has also been a YouTuber since 2011, maintaining a channel with over 90,000 subscribers (and allegedly over 100,000 at one point) and seven million views. The content uploaded includes Roblox building and scripting content, custom musical pieces, and showcases of new Jailbreak content.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Balfanz, Alex Living people 1999 births American video game programmers Duke University alumni Roblox People from Orlando, Florida Trinity Preparatory School alumni