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They started out trying to make an MMO, ended up making Flickr instead. Then they tried making another MMO, but ended up making Slack instead. I really hope t
by mullingitover 6y ago
They started out trying to make an MMO, ended up making Flickr instead.
Then they tried making another MMO, but ended up making Slack instead.
I really hope they get cracking on another MMO soon.
- idlewords 6y agoOr try designing a really great office collaboration suite and end up accidentally making a killer game.
- Waterluvian 6y agoMy wife and I once spent TWO hours stuffing photocopiers into an elevator in Deus Ex. So, getting close with that one.
- keyle 6y agoNow that's relationship goals.
- bartread 6y agoOne of the oddest comments I've yet seen on HN. Was this part of a mission or just for grins?
- Waterluvian 6y agoWe went into the police station for a mission but my inner child called out to me. She says it's the day she realised she wanted to marry me.
- mey 6y agoDo games created in excel count? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/04/how-an-accountant-created-an-entire-rpg-inside-an-excel-spreadsheet/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/04/how-an-accountant-cre...
- sidpatil 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9AXBowb0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9AXBowb0E
- dreamcompiler 6y agoI'd think Excel-based games would be more common. It's dataflow programming after all, which is the only form of massively parallel programming that ever caught on in a big way.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoYou mean eve online?
- jusssi 6y agoI believe that was/is a marketing campaign for MS Excel.
- mercer 6y agoor suprise a dev because they're apparently not fully focused on politics anymore?
- rmujica 6y agoMaking an MMO is an incredibly hard but rewarding endeavor. There are so many subsystems that you can design and program that you will never end the game; but you will end much wiser.
- geek_at 6y agountil you have an established player base and are using 95% or your time for balancing and the economy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sumZLwFXJqE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sumZLwFXJqE)
- whereistimbo 6y agothe first game title is 'neverending' (flick), the second game title is 'glitch' (slack), combine both and you get 'neverending glitch'
- indigochill 6y agoI really liked Glitch. The aesthetic was really cool and it always felt cozy. Was sad to see it go, but I can kind of understand it since I don't know they ever had a real business model to it.
- staticelf 6y agoWhat is an MMO? Massive Multiplayer Online?
- fphhotchips 6y agoShort for MMORPG or massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
- chha 6y agoNot really; MMO is just a massively multiplayer online game, it doesn't have to be an RPG. It could just as well be an FPS, RTS or any other genre... </nitpicking>
- staticelf 6y agook lol, I just assumed the OP meant something else. Didn't know Salesforce tried to make a game?
- detaro 6y agoNot Salesforce, the people behind Slack and Flickr.
- odiroot 6y agoMaybe we can get a good cross-platform email client next?
- alecco 6y agoSlack client is horrible like most Electron apps. There is no free lunch.