I was going to play it to 2048 until I saw my score wasn't doubling at every barrier, but rather incrementing by one. Thanks but no thanks! Not trying to spend 5000 seconds on this today!
I was about to watch it all the way to 2048, but then I realized that even at a rate of 1 point per second, I'd be looking at a block jumping up and down for over 34 minutes. So I thought better and went back to work. Haha, almost got me.
I was expecting there to be two simultaneous games of Flappy Bird and 2048, where any arrow key jumps the bird and moves the blocks in the specified direction in 2048. Both games start over if your bird dies.
I look forward to tomorrow's post that solves this with AI. (I suppose it is intended as an AI challenge, as that would be the only way to get to 2048.)
I think this would be harder, at least for me, to solve with a bot than any of the previous submissions. Might actually be a fun exercise...
This is pretty incredible what's happening. I think both 2048 and Flappy Bird are the first games that can be called memes. I don't think this phenomenon has happened before? To understand the value in them you have to understand the history.
I think you're overstating this, any number of simple games have been reproduced and virally spread. Tetris comes to mind. When that came out in the 80s, I was one of many who quickly produced a playable version and posted it to local bulletin boards. Similarly, many of the games discussed in Martin Gardner's and A.K. Dewdney's columns in Scientific American got pretty wide play (Conway's Life and CoreWar come to mind).
The scale and spread of these particular memes is larger and faster due to easier-to-use tools for cloning previous efforts (such as git/github), and more pervasive social media.
One notable distinction here is that these games are "crossbreeding" like memes, being remixed into many more different variations than before. Their simple gameplay is probably one thing that encourages this cloning and remixing.
I know 2048 seems like a big number but you understand that that would be 12 pipes? Most people would get that in the first minute of play. The tile colors do change every time you hit the doubled value.
I had a dream a few nights ago about a first-person version of 2048. I don't have time to code it, but would love it if someone did a first-person version!
3) merge (merge current piece into facing piece, with corresponding shift in all rows/columns)
4) swap (jump viewpoint from current piece to facing piece)
5) flyover (view whole board)
In my dream I actually played it several times, some times there was a flyover option and sometimes there wasn't. It was way more difficult without the flyover option!
The merge was the best part! It was sort of like a 1960's movie style drug/Batman/fireworks visual event.
"Angry 4D Flappy2048 MMO doges are belong to us in 140 Bytes!" comes next and it goes on until there are so many references that no one gets the joke. At least, that's what I wish for.
Seriously, I love when people extend ideas well beyond the point of absurdity. It's fun and it actually stimulates creativity.
From what I understand, this actually makes fun of those endless iterations and I actually laughed out loud when I saw the title. It was all a joke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418400
> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity
I'd say this gratifies one's intellectual curiosity on programming and game development. I can see you not having the same opinion and I guess we can only agree to disagree.
I would love to hear your thoughts about how your intellectual curiosity is being stimulated with Flappy2048. Because so far there is not a single insightful response. I suppose one could argue the emotional state of meditation through rhythmic controls. On the other hand, there appears to be no curious minds here so the argument is moot.
Are you sure that's the quote you wish to use to defend the validity of this iteration of 2048? Because I would argue the amount of "progress" and "achievement" has very diminishing returns other than validating this as a meme post.
You're spending a lot of effort putting it down, when others are having a good time with it or even learning something by writing it (or inspired to write yet another variant).
Well, my thoughts are that it is, at once, a brainstorming contribution to the crowdsourced innovation spawned from both 2048 and Flappy Bird, two challenging, mentally addictive yet simple games, as well as an example of how a lot of the "pivots" derivative startups make don't in fact lead you to a better state than the local maxima you've already achieved.
Sure, it has no play value (nor replay value). And the 17th mashed up iteration of Groupon for local pet food delivery is doomed as well. But there are lessons in the failure:
--The mechanics may set the stage for a follow on game that returns the mathematical/pattern-matching element of 2048 back into the mix
--It highlights the difference between the mass market FlappyBird and the more niche appeal of 2048, both demographically and intellectually.
--It expands the mind to consider mashups of other games or game mechanics that might be interesting.
But more than this: memes of any kind are pure, intellectual riffing. It's completely refreshing to see these riffs occur in the medium of code rather than Photoshop.
I'm not saying there's a coders' equivalent of Cheezburger Network out there, but there's an opportunity far beyond what you're seeing if meme culture and coding intersect.
I was going to play it to 2048 until I saw my score wasn't doubling at every barrier, but rather incrementing by one. Thanks but no thanks! Not trying to spend 5000 seconds on this today!
I could make it to 2^11, but this way I lose interest.
Likewise, I was somewhat disappointed.
On the other hand, I've discovered a new method for breaking just about anyone.
Just hold out for the AI version someone probably just forked and is working on.
You mean something like this?
http://mvirkkunen.github.io/Flappy-2048-AI/
Very good. Now give it its own thread so I can upvote that too.
Cool :D
I was about to watch it all the way to 2048, but then I realized that even at a rate of 1 point per second, I'd be looking at a block jumping up and down for over 34 minutes. So I thought better and went back to work. Haha, almost got me.
Same here.
Technically solves the addiction problem, I guess?
Fixed: http://logarithmic-flappy-2048.ajf.me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7432448
well, that escalated... logarithmically.
bugs fixed, js and css lightened, no lag, dynamics improved: GET TO 2048 and FREE THE FLAPPY BIRD! http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~ali/Flappy2048/
To match the original, it shouldn't double.
It should add 2 to the tile 90% of the time, and add 4 10% of the time.
Hahahaha someone actually made it. But I said it had to be MMO!! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418400
But seriously this is hilarious.
Edit: Oh the one Nick posted in a comment here is awesome too. Actually super challenging to move squares while playing flappy bird.
Yeah your comment was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title
http://flapmmo.com/ <- In case you didn't see
I was expecting there to be two simultaneous games of Flappy Bird and 2048, where any arrow key jumps the bird and moves the blocks in the specified direction in 2048. Both games start over if your bird dies.
Hmmmmm...
You have just sent a pour soul on a questionable endeavour.
Was posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428175
I look forward to tomorrow's post that solves this with AI. (I suppose it is intended as an AI challenge, as that would be the only way to get to 2048.)
I think this would be harder, at least for me, to solve with a bot than any of the previous submissions. Might actually be a fun exercise...
Here's a Flappy Bird bot that got up to 200+. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiomqZhUgUc
Like this one? http://sarvagyavaish.github.io/FlappyBirdRL/
This is pretty incredible what's happening. I think both 2048 and Flappy Bird are the first games that can be called memes. I don't think this phenomenon has happened before? To understand the value in them you have to understand the history.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/surgeon-simulator-2013 http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/qwop
knowyourmeme have a pretty low barrier for what is a meme though.
I think you're overstating this, any number of simple games have been reproduced and virally spread. Tetris comes to mind. When that came out in the 80s, I was one of many who quickly produced a playable version and posted it to local bulletin boards. Similarly, many of the games discussed in Martin Gardner's and A.K. Dewdney's columns in Scientific American got pretty wide play (Conway's Life and CoreWar come to mind).
The scale and spread of these particular memes is larger and faster due to easier-to-use tools for cloning previous efforts (such as git/github), and more pervasive social media.
One notable distinction here is that these games are "crossbreeding" like memes, being remixed into many more different variations than before. Their simple gameplay is probably one thing that encourages this cloning and remixing.
Not really. They're late by several centuries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_variant
How about Super Mario Bros?
Alright, someone create Twitch plays 2048 and we'll call it a day
Done.
http://hnplays2048.herokuapp.com
Github: https://github.com/grant/hnplays2048
Ugh, games are over in seconds. Without communication, the tragedy of the commons dominates decisions. And now heroku stopped the DDoS.
Perhaps if it chose the most popular of the last x inputs.
START9
Clearly the next iteration needs to include democracy/anarchy modes.
He did. And it's a much better cadence.
I have never seen a post on HN more inevitable than this ... and I love it. I guess the next is "Flappy 2048 in pure CSS".
Your score should double after every level, instead of increment by 1. Otherwise it would take forever to get to 2048!
I know 2048 seems like a big number but you understand that that would be 12 pipes? Most people would get that in the first minute of play. The tile colors do change every time you hit the doubled value.
It just needs to be made harder. It took me a lot longer than 1 minute to get > 12 pipes in the original.
A better mix of the games would increment by 2 or 4 randomly, like the 2048 board does. It's not like either game is over in 11 moves.
http://www.donaldguy.com/Flappy-Doge2048/
I contributed.
(warning: your CPU may cry)
MOTHER OF GOD.
...so it has come to this.
I can safely say that this one is not going to wind up in my hosts file.
Not sure if you use DNS and hosts is a blacklist or you don't use DNS and hosts is a whitelist...
Blacklist. The original got there. It was too addicting.
Ok, "2048" game mods are officially an HN meme. Let's keep it going. What version is next?
duke nukem 2048
but will it ever be released?
In about 34 years, yes.
2048 2048D?
I believe 2048 has now officially jumped the shark.
We still need to see Flappy 2048 AI.
I wholeheartedly agree with this statement.
Aaaannnnd there we go:
http://mvirkkunen.github.io/Flappy-2048-AI/
It has skipped a hop.
I think it jumped the shark 3 frontpage-making clones ago.
Flappy Shark
Or flapped the bird, in this case.
I had a dream a few nights ago about a first-person version of 2048. I don't have time to code it, but would love it if someone did a first-person version!
Hmmmm.... a 2048 Minecraft mod?
$19 for access to the Unreal 4 codebase, 5% of revenue. Have at it!
How did your dream vision playing this first-person version of 2048?
1) turn left
2) turn right
3) merge (merge current piece into facing piece, with corresponding shift in all rows/columns)
4) swap (jump viewpoint from current piece to facing piece)
5) flyover (view whole board)
In my dream I actually played it several times, some times there was a flyover option and sometimes there wasn't. It was way more difficult without the flyover option!
The merge was the best part! It was sort of like a 1960's movie style drug/Batman/fireworks visual event.
Ok. Waiting for "Flappy 2048 4D" now.
Having seen the 3D version, Flappy Bird 4D would be a lot more challenging already.
incoming 4D Flappy2048
"Angry 4D Flappy2048 MMO doges are belong to us in 140 Bytes!" comes next and it goes on until there are so many references that no one gets the joke. At least, that's what I wish for.
Seriously, I love when people extend ideas well beyond the point of absurdity. It's fun and it actually stimulates creativity.
Twitch Plays 2048.
Speedruns, at least: http://www.twitch.tv/extratricky
http://hnplays2048.herokuapp.com
tons of fun
This is absolutely incredible.
I'd like to extend an offer to the OP to purchase this app/company for 50 billion dollars.
I raise your offer, 100 billion.
I offer 2048 Billion!
I'll lend you 110% of the company acquisition value.
I laughed.
Same!
I don't think I could ever succeed at this.
LOL I never played flappy bird, but if this is what it's like, I can see why it might be a little addictive for a while.
flappy bird is much harder than this. my average score was around 4.
I was going to write this... but in mine, the whole board is the bird, and you play normal 2048 while avoiding barriers.
My chance of failing increases the moment I think about which number I'm at and how much there is left to go.
This is amazing.
Although I have to try to figure out how I am going to explain why my work isn't getting done now...
This game would be incomprehensible but for the recent news coverage. But it's still really funny.
Much easier than flappy bird.
Staaahp.
I have never laughed whilst opening up HN. Thank-you for that!
Welcome :)
It has begun!
The planetary forces aligned for this miracle to happen.
Where are the ads?
OK, so when's 2048: The Movie coming out?
Please don't post victory screenshots...
Next can we have 2048 Player Simulator 2014?
This is a good kind of stupid. I love it!
SO much easier than both original games.
This is an entirely new level of irony.
This is more at my intellectual level.
HOLY MOTHER OF FLAPPY BIRD!
Ha, this is pretty clever!
Next up: Desert Bus 2048.
There needs to be a moratorium on the revisions of 2048. They're not even fun anymore.
From what I understand, this actually makes fun of those endless iterations and I actually laughed out loud when I saw the title. It was all a joke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418400
Yeah, but this is actually pretty lame compared to the proposals you linked. I was hoping someone had built one of those.
I'd bet this is just the first iteration. It's better to ship it before no one gets the reference =)
Ah, I guess I wasn't aware this was a forum for jokes. I suppose cat pictures and memes come next.
From guidelines[1] :
> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity
I'd say this gratifies one's intellectual curiosity on programming and game development. I can see you not having the same opinion and I guess we can only agree to disagree.
[1]: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would love to hear your thoughts about how your intellectual curiosity is being stimulated with Flappy2048. Because so far there is not a single insightful response. I suppose one could argue the emotional state of meditation through rhythmic controls. On the other hand, there appears to be no curious minds here so the argument is moot.
"Strange how much human progress and achievement comes from contemplation of the irrelevant." - Scott Kim
Are you sure that's the quote you wish to use to defend the validity of this iteration of 2048? Because I would argue the amount of "progress" and "achievement" has very diminishing returns other than validating this as a meme post.
You're spending a lot of effort putting it down, when others are having a good time with it or even learning something by writing it (or inspired to write yet another variant).
You ever read "The Glass Bead Game" by Hermann Hesse?
He was pretty prophetic, apart from it is not being played by monks.
edit - the interesting game that is developing is the iterating of simple games as turns in a game on the playing field of github.
Humour seems to have value inside this game, which is not surprising given the form.
It also has a fair amount of value outside it as well, which you might want to keep in mind.
Well, my thoughts are that it is, at once, a brainstorming contribution to the crowdsourced innovation spawned from both 2048 and Flappy Bird, two challenging, mentally addictive yet simple games, as well as an example of how a lot of the "pivots" derivative startups make don't in fact lead you to a better state than the local maxima you've already achieved.
Sure, it has no play value (nor replay value). And the 17th mashed up iteration of Groupon for local pet food delivery is doomed as well. But there are lessons in the failure:
--The mechanics may set the stage for a follow on game that returns the mathematical/pattern-matching element of 2048 back into the mix
--It highlights the difference between the mass market FlappyBird and the more niche appeal of 2048, both demographically and intellectually.
--It expands the mind to consider mashups of other games or game mechanics that might be interesting.
But more than this: memes of any kind are pure, intellectual riffing. It's completely refreshing to see these riffs occur in the medium of code rather than Photoshop.
I'm not saying there's a coders' equivalent of Cheezburger Network out there, but there's an opportunity far beyond what you're seeing if meme culture and coding intersect.
Those guidelines are why I flag every Snowden article.
Yeah, stupid kids and their stupid games! Back in my day we wrote in x86 when we wanted to have fun!
I'd rather have cat pictures and memes than this humorless intolerance of whimsy.
http://2vga1o5mew51s6gu7x0mnk7kf.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-...
ok, i would like to pay this 50k one day.
is there a cryptocoin for that yet?
4!
4 * 3 * 2 * 1=24?
this is awesome, lmao