Kitchen table game becomes iPhone app
"It is your next 'just one more level' game", says the app's developer Simon Gummmer.
Kitchen table game turns into iPhone app
The app designer told the BBC it was a "surreal" moment to launch the game
A board game created at a kitchen table during lockdown has now been released as an iPhone app.
CubeRoots Ivy is the first mobile game made by Simon Gummer from Horley.
The 36-year old, who built the app from a board game invented by his university friend Eddy Martin, compared it to "dominos".
"It is satisfying and easy to learn, but surprisingly strategic," he told BBC Radio Surrey. "It is your next 'just one more level' game. We have never seen anything like it."
Gummer said he came up with the idea of turning his friend's creation into a digital version after playing it frequently at the pub.
He called the game's Wednesday launch "surreal", adding: "It is something we have been talking about for quite a long time.
"I suppose I am nervous as well to see how people are going to react."
The app is based on an earlier physical game (pictured)
Gummer, who works as a TV producer, said he taught himself to code in order to make the app.
"It's been a good challenge - something to tinker on at the weekends and in the evenings.
"I have made loads of mistakes along the way. I probably restarted about three times."
Gummer (pictured) had to self learn code to make the game
Even after the launch, Gummer said the project was still far from finished and that improvements would keep being made as players started using the app.
"It is also never finished, which is the scary bit," he said.