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Local News - Local News - January 31, 2013
An app with a new approach

By Jessica Valencia
Of the Journal of Business

Pixel Buddy creator Emerson Shaffer says the game had been downloaded more than 12,000 times as of Jan. 25.
Pixel Buddy creator Emerson Shaffer says the game had been downloaded more than 12,000 times as of Jan. 25.
—Staff photo by Jessica Valencia
Unlike popular mobile games such as Angry Birds and its subsequent spinoffs, Pixel Buddy, the brainchild of 17-year-old Emerson Shaffer, can do something other apps have struggled to wrangle: crowdsourcing its content.

Shaffer is a senior at Mt. Spokane High School and owns Missing Pixel Studios Inc., the parent company for his recent mobile game, Pixel Buddy. Pixel Buddy is a two-dimensional, pet care simulation game available for iPhone, iPod, and iPad devices.

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