Fear not. I don't plan on pulling a flappy bird. Although I now kind-of understand what Dong Nguyen might have felt like, even if at a much smaller scale.
Your game is amazing! I really enjoy it. Ported it over to Firefox OS so that people in 16 countries can be introduced to it. https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/2048~/
I did not sleep last night. I did not work the whole of yesterday (well, I resigned from my job yesterday). Please keep the game up till I start my new job.
The Flappy Bird Effect: When a simple game rises in popularity leading other hackers to build an AI and multiplayer versions of it leading to its own demise.
We should expect Gabriele Cirulli to be in Rollingstone next. :p
Fear not. I don't plan on pulling a flappy bird. Although I now kind-of understand what Dong Nguyen might have felt like, even if at a much smaller scale.
Your game is amazing! I really enjoy it. Ported it over to Firefox OS so that people in 16 countries can be introduced to it. https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/2048~/
Unlike him, I hope that you're smart enough to use your newfound power for evil.
Unfortunately, either it's broken or everyone stopped playing it. It hasn't found any competitor after about 5 minutes of searching.
I did not sleep last night. I did not work the whole of yesterday (well, I resigned from my job yesterday). Please keep the game up till I start my new job.
The Flappy Bird Effect: When a simple game rises in popularity leading other hackers to build an AI and multiplayer versions of it leading to its own demise.
We should expect Gabriele Cirulli to be in Rollingstone next. :p
Like Tetris, just add some demise?
I'm convinced that there's a whole new ecosystem of hackers that will exist solely to clone simple games which rise in popularity.
That actually sounds promising--like a book club for gameplay mechanics. We could start by working through http://www.squidi.net/three/ together.
… "I need time to prepare for the release of '4096'."
4096 done : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7386557 :)