Good coverage, well done! At least for the iOS games. Few more to add:
Tiny Bang
PDTA (please don't touch anything) Carcassone
Tokaido
Miracle Merchant
Alchemy 2
Supertype
Ordinary puzzles
Auralux, Auralux 2
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Re: Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games
#52I like this a lot. For a few years now I've wanted something like "No-Bullshit Podcasts" which does the same thing - lists podcasts that are either ad-free or that can be made ad-free via purchase, and that don't require a proprietary player.
All the BBC podcasts are ad-free, but I get them from within the UK. I am not sure if they have ads if served in other countries.
Re: Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games
#53Good coverage, well done! At least for the iOS games. Few more to add: Tiny Bang PDTA (please don't touch anything) Carcassone Tokaido Miracle Merchant Alchemy 2 Supertype Ordinary puzzles Auralux, Auralux 2
PS. Feature-wise I think this could use a grouping of game series, e.g. Journey the Down - there are 3 parts, but it'd make sense to show them as a single meta-item.
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#55Good coverage, well done! At least for the iOS games. Few more to add: Tiny Bang PDTA (please don't touch anything) Carcassone Tokaido Miracle Merchant Alchemy 2 Supertype Ordinary puzzles Auralux, Auralux 2
There are a lot of good board game apps. The only thing you buy in app is expansions to the games.
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#56Here is my contribution (a webapp, a.k.a. a website) http://lalo.li/lsd/ coded it years ago mostly drunk on an island in Thailand, I now like to play it again on my iPad with iPencil.
Github: https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lsd (Warning: a single, dependency less CoffeeScript source file)
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I played the original to death "back in the day" so I'm really sad to hear that they went down this route. Probably also explains why nobody talks about Angry Birds anymore.
There was an Angry Birds movie released within the last couple of years. It's still extremely popular.
it was legitimately a good movie. I would've gone to see the sequel despite never having played any of their games.
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#58I echo the others here, Thanks! I have young kids and we let them use tablets on long trips, vacations, airplane rides. Finding games for them is impossible. They are too young to understand when characters, levels, items are locked. It seems like every 2 minutes they get stuck on some ad screen with a hidden X. I just want a game that when I pay $4, I get the full game. It doesn't even have to be a big, intensive ga…
I don't know how young is young, but finding this PBS app was great:
https://pbskids.org/apps/pbs-kids-games.html
No ads, works disconnected from the internet, and games are pretty simple and not driven towards some kind of monetary business system.
Re: Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games
#59I echo the others here, Thanks! I have young kids and we let them use tablets on long trips, vacations, airplane rides. Finding games for them is impossible. They are too young to understand when characters, levels, items are locked. It seems like every 2 minutes they get stuck on some ad screen with a hidden X. I just want a game that when I pay $4, I get the full game. It doesn't even have to be a big, intensive ga…
As an adult I downloaded some tower building game and then eventually realized I had to pay to be able to keep playing it reasonably. It was my first experience ever with pay-to-play. I just deleted it and flat don't play mobile games anymore.
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#60No IAP and no ads? How does a game studio should earn money then? Knowing the fact that business model of games are moving to free to play and than players are now reluctant more than ever to pay a decent price for a game but prefer spend 5x more little by little?
Do you intend to reverse the trend? Real question, no trolling.
How a game studio can make money with a F2P game? Or how can we make money from a free 2 play NoBullshit™ game.
Disclaimer: I'm a game developer, I make a MMO F2P mobile game with IAP and ads.
EDIT: I'm not trying to discuss why a F2P with IAP and ads is not always a Bullshit game, you guess that I'm trying to do things well.