- Playmonster Games bought Taco against Burrito for an unnoted amount. The game was invented by a 7-year-old who steered it to over 1.5 million units sold with the help of his parents. Despite his success, the creator Alex Butler says: “It was never anything that I was attached or something.”
Alex Butler was only seven years old when he earned his first million dollars. A game he invented, named Taco against Burrito, had made it Amazon– and by the end of 2018 it received sales of around 1.1 million US dollars.
After Butler monitored the game of the game with his parents, she sold the rights to the game Play monsterwhose other known products are spirograph, farkle and yeti in my spaghetti. The conditions of the deal have not been announced, but Taco against Burrito (which has been sold at Amazon in retail for 20 US dollars in retail) has sold 1.5 million copies so far. The game also has two expansion packages.
Playmonster says that it will expand the game further and that a version will come in a collector’s form later this year.
Butler, who is now 15 years old, says he is not particularly sad that his creation continues. It was, he says, never really anything he wanted to do for the rest of his life.
“It was never anything that I am bound or something”, ” He said The Seattle Times. “It is not particularly important to me. I just wanted to make the most money out of it.”
Alex ‘mother is himself an entrepreneur. When her son came up with the idea after playing card games like exploding kitten, she encouraged him. The family went to the café/hangout in the neighborhood to test the prototype, which would cause Alex to bring in a new view of the rules.
In order to cover the production costs, he started an online donation campaign that earned 25,000 US dollars. Alex ‘parents founded a holding company for the game (of which Alex was the majority owner), found a manufacturer and put the game on Amazon. It decreased quickly and never slowed down.
While there were buyout offers in the past, the family said they never really felt. When they started talking to Playmonster, things did things.
However, you don’t expect Alex soon. His interests have shifted to music production, sports and video games, he says.
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