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Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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Post by lostgame » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 7:27 PM UTC

You seriously may want to reconsider the name. ‘Angel Dust’ is a slang for the narcotic PCP - I immediately was confused and only clicked so I could tell what it actually was.

Not sure how this didn’t come up before? At any point in development? O.o

Edit: whoa, downvotes, really? Care to say why? This is a legitimate concern?

Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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Post by bananamerica » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 7:29 PM UTC

edoo wrote: post #19

Culturally speaking getting kids into a game called "Angel Dust" which is street slang for PCP is not going to do society any favors.

It also won’t harm society at all. It might harm the game, but I doubt it.

Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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Post by iTokio » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 7:40 PM UTC

What are the advantages of using your custom engine instead of unity, unreal engine?

Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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Post by setr » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 7:40 PM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #16

> programmed in C++ with bits of C, Objective-C, Java and PHP I am very curious how and why this happened

Seems like the other languages were for the frontends. C++ core, Java for Android, objC for iOS, php for web

Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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Post by purple-again » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 7:40 PM UTC

lostgame wrote: post #21

You seriously may want to reconsider the name. ‘Angel Dust’ is a slang for the narcotic PCP - I immediately was confused and only clicked so I could tell what it actually was. Not sure how this didn’t come up before? At any point in development? O.o Edit: whoa, downvotes, really? Care to say why? This is a legitimate concern?

It is and is shared by many other people not commenting. Creating a product targeted at children and then naming it the same as a dangerous addictive street narcotic is not a wise decision.

Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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Post by ossworkerrights » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 7:42 PM UTC

How long did it take you to reach 250k players, and has there been marketing involved?

Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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Post by oneeyedpigeon » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 7:42 PM UTC

lostgame wrote: post #21

You seriously may want to reconsider the name. ‘Angel Dust’ is a slang for the narcotic PCP - I immediately was confused and only clicked so I could tell what it actually was. Not sure how this didn’t come up before? At any point in development? O.o Edit: whoa, downvotes, really? Care to say why? This is a legitimate concern?

Not sure why anyone's downvoting you, but I suspect the name is 100% on purpose - it would be quite the coincidence otherwise. I remember a game called Speedball in the 90s, which was very successful - this is nothing new!

Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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Post by kossTKR » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 7:44 PM UTC

lostgame wrote: post #21

You seriously may want to reconsider the name. ‘Angel Dust’ is a slang for the narcotic PCP - I immediately was confused and only clicked so I could tell what it actually was. Not sure how this didn’t come up before? At any point in development? O.o Edit: whoa, downvotes, really? Care to say why? This is a legitimate concern?

If you search Google for "Angeldust", literally the first 5 results for me are about the drug PCP. I have no idea how on earth you can even deploy something without Googling it first. Or maybe my personalised results are different?

Also i may be wrong about the importance of these results - is it easy to push those down?

Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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Post by detaro » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 7:46 PM UTC

kossTKR wrote: post #28

lostgame wrote: post #21

You seriously may want to reconsider the name. ‘Angel Dust’ is a slang for the narcotic PCP - I immediately was confused and only clicked so I could tell what it actually was. Not sure how this didn’t come up before? At any point in development? O.o Edit: whoa, downvotes, really? Care to say why? This is a legitimate concern?

If you search Google for "Angeldust", literally the first 5 results for me are about the drug PCP. I have no idea how on earth you can even deploy something without Googling it first. Or maybe my personalised results are different? Also i may be wrong about the importance of these results - is it easy to push those down?

Duckduckgo funnily enough has 3 of the top 5 results being this game.

Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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Post by kossTKR » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 7:47 PM UTC

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #27

lostgame wrote: post #21

You seriously may want to reconsider the name. ‘Angel Dust’ is a slang for the narcotic PCP - I immediately was confused and only clicked so I could tell what it actually was. Not sure how this didn’t come up before? At any point in development? O.o Edit: whoa, downvotes, really? Care to say why? This is a legitimate concern?

Not sure why anyone's downvoting you, but I suspect the name is 100% on purpose - it would be quite the coincidence otherwise. I remember a game called Speedball in the 90s, which was very successful - this is nothing new!

Comparing the words angeldust and the very common word "speed" is not comparable at all. Also the game looks like it's targeted at smaller kids. It would be like creating a minecraft clone and calling it "meth-heads". Thats 100% not what he is doing and if it is, then it's pretty insane.