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Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

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Re: Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

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Post by Stormbringer »

netcan wrote: post #49
codexon wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with TechCrunch's Facebook comments is that you can't speak your mind if you have something negative to say about anything. If you make a positive comment, you might get some friends, but if you make a negative comment, you are much more likely to make enemies just for saying what's on your mind. That is why TechCrunch comments are now nothing but a sea of sycophancy. The value of an anonymous forum is th…

Are you being facetious?

Are you making an obscure pun or play on the words Facebook and Facetious?

Re: Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

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Post by pg »

BoppreH wrote: post #50
jazzychad wrote: post #40

Meta: I am appalled by the amount of hate and (non-constructive) criticism in these comments. In a total role-reversal, all of the comments on TC are positive and encouraging. The congratulatory comments in this thread have been downvoted to negative points. What gives? Is it easier to criticize than give encouragement? These guys already have 95,000 active users... what a feat! I am ok with constructive criticisms a…

About the downvotes: "Congrats Josh" and "Woot go Josh!" don't add anything. If they were "Josh sucks!", they would be downvoted equally.

I would hope they weren't downvoted equally. Random acts of meanness are much more poisonous to a site/society than random acts of kindness.

Re: Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

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Post by chrischen »

teej wrote: post #27

It seems he's starting to learn the hard lessons of building inside a walled garden. Facebook has already shut down newsfeed stories for his app (a major user acquisition channel) due to ToS violations. Welcome to Hell.

Do you have a source for this? I'm seeing newsfeed items from Minomonsters right now...

Re: Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

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Post by Stormbringer »

zackattack wrote: post #36
pclark wrote: post #24

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Does apologising before criticising someone's creation make you feel less guilty about doing it?

Yes that's exactly what's going on. He's attempting to externalize his guilt/shame to create a socially acceptable situation for criticism-- to validate his internal negativity and hate.

He could just be telegraphing his intention so as to minimise confusion. Humour not clearly marked as such is often down-voted. As such, this would be a defensive move in ego-space, rather than an attempt for validation. Hence a self-protective mode of thought rather than an energy stealing vampiric dependency mode. Thus I feel that it is a positive, yang based maneuver, rather than a negative ying based energy flow.

You suggest hate as a primary motivator. Hate is based on repressed anger, and anger is the archetypal emotive of rules that have been broken. What rules do you suggest that he feels have been broken? Perhaps some kind of rule that the things that are valuable are those that are unique and not derivative? What would you suggest is the causative agency of such a feedback based rules paradigm?

Re: Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

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Post by webwright »

ThomPete wrote: post #18
webwright wrote: post #16

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People are still MINTING money on Facebook. I imagine the top 5 grossing facebook games make the top 5 grossing iPhone games look like adorable little hobbies. The #40 game on Facebook has 6M monthly active uniques. THe #120 game on Facebook has 2M MAU. How many iPhone games have those kind of numbers? Platform quibbles aside, I imagine it's the fastest/cheapest way to get tens/hundreds of thousands of users to test…

Are they? Who else other than Zynga is. Making money?

http://www.appdata.com/leaderboard/developers

There's a list.

How many millions of active users do you think it'd take to make meaningful income?

Re: Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

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Post by noahth »

teej wrote: post #26
citricsquid wrote: post #20

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Arguably their unique take is the Facebook side of it, does Pokemon exist on Facebook like this does?

There's at least two. One is called Monster Galaxy by Gaia Online which launched in December ( http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=129748227041... ). There's another, the name of which I don't remember, that did a ton of Facebook advertising in the last 12 months.

Miscrits.

Re: Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

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Post by noahth »

robotkad wrote: post #28
citricsquid wrote: post #20

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Arguably their unique take is the Facebook side of it, does Pokemon exist on Facebook like this does?

Does it matter? Hasbro didn't think so when Scrabulous became one of the top games on Facebook. Nintendo protects the Pokemon brand very aggressively.

That was a pretty specific issue, with 2 complaints. One was the name, and the other was that the board layout was identical (location of bonus squares, etc). It relaunched very quickly as Lexulous with a different board. Damage done, but it wasn't an instant kill or anything.

Re: Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

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Post by TheRevoltingX »

The graphics are really cool and all, but this definitely isn't what pokemon would be. Where is the ability to walk the world and interact with non playable characters? It's decent, but it's no pokemon as far as playability. It's just a stripped down version of pokemon with social elements added. It would be really nice if you could actually play as a character, view battle animations (like pokemon fire attacks show flames) etc.
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