Programming and co-creating the Roblox game Jailbreak
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 Roblox game Jailbreak.
Born in 1999, Balfanz began to code games using Roblox Studio at the age of 9.[1] Balfanz's father worked as a programmer, which Balfanz cites as one of the main reasons for his early interest in coding.[2] He attended high school at the Trinity Preparatory School.[3] Prior to releasing Jailbreak, Balfanz had made several other games on Roblox, which he stated had made him "maybe a couple thousand" dollars.[3]
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 minigames.[3]
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.[1] It quickly became one of the most popular games on the platform, and made Balfanz a millionaire.[4][3]
Personal life
Balfanz attended Duke University, where he paid off his college debt using funds from his games.[2][5] Balfanz has also been a YouTuber since 2011, maintaining a channel with over 90,000 subscribers and seven million views. The content uploaded includes Roblox building and scripting content, custom musical pieces, and showcases of new Jailbreak content.[6]
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