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"Then he hit a button, and Flappy Bird disappeared. When I ask him why he did it, he answers with the same conviction that led him to create the game. 'I'm master of my own fate,' he says. 'Independent thinker.'" Good for him. The world needs more people with this attitude.
three he's working on simultaneously: an untitled cowboy-themed shooter, a vertical flying game called Kitty Jetpack and an "action chess game," as he puts it, called Checkonaut, one of which he'll release this month Don't say the names of his to-be-released games; someone might grab the app names now. (Unless they're already approved but hidden; though Apple usually doesn't allow "in-progress"/beta app submissions)
"Then he hit a button, and Flappy Bird disappeared. When I ask him why he did it, he answers with the same conviction that led him to create the game. 'I'm master of my own fate,' he says. 'Independent thinker.'" Good for him. The world needs more people with this attitude.
I agree. I love this guy. I bet that very few of us on HN would have done what he did. I certainly wouldn't have. I'm not saying that what he did was right, but it was right for him, and what is impressive to me is that he realized that. That kind of self-knowledge is a wonderful quality to have or develop.
But from what I've heard, the paparazzi changes everything and it really is life-changing. So hard to say either way.
I heard it was just a reskin of a premade game he got off an asset store. Is that not the case? This article made it sound like it was an original idea, but I thought it was just that one button to go up, no button to go down flash game. Is that not what it is?
Re: Asset store reskin, I have no idea. But FWIW I hadn't heard that accusation before.
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I agree. I love this guy. I bet that very few of us on HN would have done what he did. I certainly wouldn't have. I'm not saying that what he did was right, but it was right for him, and what is impressive to me is that he realized that. That kind of self-knowledge is a wonderful quality to have or develop.
I think to myself that I definitely wouldn't have, and that I would have weather the storm of the press outside my house, and just focused on that great payday (everyday). But from what I've heard, the paparazzi changes everything and it really is life-changing. So hard to say either way.
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I agree. I love this guy. I bet that very few of us on HN would have done what he did. I certainly wouldn't have. I'm not saying that what he did was right, but it was right for him, and what is impressive to me is that he realized that. That kind of self-knowledge is a wonderful quality to have or develop.
I think to myself that I definitely wouldn't have, and that I would have weather the storm of the press outside my house, and just focused on that great payday (everyday). But from what I've heard, the paparazzi changes everything and it really is life-changing. So hard to say either way.
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I think to myself that I definitely wouldn't have, and that I would have weather the storm of the press outside my house, and just focused on that great payday (everyday). But from what I've heard, the paparazzi changes everything and it really is life-changing. So hard to say either way.
A software developer/entrepreneur is not a rock star. The paparazzi will disappear and the game be forgotten in a few weeks.
(BTW, dong is the name of Vietnam's currency, something that is probably worth a lot of jokes in the Vietnamese media)
Also, becoming a viral success (regardless of quality of the game) from Vietnam is a much different and rarer accomplishment than doing it from America (or any place where the world's media is more attuned to). Kudos to him!
I found myself playing in this exact manner many times while riding the subway. Even when I would go just one or two stops, it was convenient way to spend the time squeezing in a few games of Flappy Bird without worrying about concentrating too hard on any one game, or being concerned about getting cutoff in any one round by having to leave or dodge a bystander.