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Naveen Sidhu

May 1st, 2010 by admin

Milton Talent

By Laura Steiner & Staff @ DiscoverMilton.com

Milton’s Own Whiz Kid recently gained a lot of buzz for his game and we can see why: you can easily get addicted trying to finish it. However, we believe Naveen is more than a Whiz Kid; he is humble, focused, patient, and he has respect for his parents. Would you believe us if we told you he comes home from school finishes his all homework first? Now this is why we’re excited about his story, he’s a good example to our own kids. Good Job to Naveen’s parents.

We recently interviewed Naveen and his dad for an article, at DiscoverMilton Headquarters. We were glad they were able to fit us in their busy schedule. After all every newspaper picked up the phone to do the same, beginning with the Toronto Star who first ran an article on him a few weeks back. We told Naveen we had the Ipad and that he could play his game on it, but we think he was more excited about the Ipad than being interviewed. All joking aside read more of his story and what he has to say about Milton as well.

A year ago Naveen Sidhu was searching for a quiz game to download to his IPOD. Finding none that challenged him enough, he did the next best thing: he invented his own. Over the next few months he learned everything about designing a game through online tutorials and created the Impossible Test. In August, 2009 it was released on the Application store.

Naveen is 18, and lives in Milton with his family. The family moved to Milton 4.5 years, ago from Mississauga and like the town, because of its diversity, and small town feeling. “It’s quiet and peaceful, and it’s close to Mississauga where my parents live,” (Naveen’s Dad).

Overall Naveen would give the town an 8, out of 10. One thing Naveen would like to see is more electronics stores. “I know there’s a best buy about to open, but I like going to future shop, or an apple store,” Naveen mused. The reason he’d give the grade was because of the roads. “They’re always making roads they say they’ll be made.” Naveen shared. After he’s finished high school, he hopes to go onto university at the University of Waterloo for Computer Engineering, and after that his goal is to work at Apple in San Francisco.

The kind of games he’d like to design is the quick pick-up and play games. “You don’t have to play the game for a few hours. You can pick it up, play a few levels and just put it down,” Naveen described; something perfect to keep the kids busy in the car on long rides. The game he created: The Impossible Test is made up of 65 questions. Some questions deal with shapes, others deal with having to touch the screen or shake the phone. His game has been downloaded over two million times.

Besides high school, Naveen also keeps busy running his own company: Pixelcube Studios. His advice to others who want to follow in his footsteps is to have patience. “Sometimes if something won’t work, it could take forever to figure out why doesn’t this work. You have to go back and keep checking it; all the programming code, and on your device.”

We wanted to thank Naveen and his dad for sharing his story with us and taking the time to visit DiscoverMilton Head Quarters. We wish him all the best for his future. This bright kid has just started to make things happen, he’s on to his 3rd app game and we can’t wait to download it. If I were in the business of making games, I would definitely call Naveen. Don’t take my word for it just look at the numbers. The last thing we want to say to all the kids out there is – ‘Dream & Believe,’ Naveen did.

For more information on his game or to download visit Naveen’s Company website at:

www.pixelcubestudios.com