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Why? You've made 80 quite janky, simple copies of existing games, and put them on a site with awkward tagging. I get that the fact you could generate them all
by Planktonne 4mo ago
Why?
You've made 80 quite janky, simple copies of existing games, and put them on a site with awkward tagging.
I get that the fact you could generate them all is exciting in itself, but better free versions of these already exist everywhere online; why would someone pay you for this, and why is it something you want to spend time on?
- echelon 4mo agoThe value of all software is going to trend to zero soon. I don't know why anyone thinks they can sell software anymore. You're going to sell outcomes.
- jp0001 4mo agoGotta have a moat.
- bluefirebrand 4mo agoWho has been selling software for the last... 15, 20 years? SAAS took over the software industry. Software as a Service. If you work in SAAS you sell a service not software Which is actually why the software industry sucks now. I'd much rather build products to sell than "services"
- CyberDildonics 4mo agoI don't know why anyone thinks they can sell software anymore. Probably because lots of people are still selling software.
- colesantiago 4mo agoThis. I predict in 10 years time the domain will be expired, nobody will play (let alone pay) the games on here. With software alone there is no moat, and I am surprised that "smart" engineers didn't think of this far ahead. This is basic economics. OP, you might as well have donated $2,300 directly to Anthropic.
- id00 4mo agoGame is just another creative media like books and movies. Does it mean that you believe that those will get expired too?
- Planktonne 4mo agoIf you released 80 poorly-written abridged copies of popular novels, I think you'd also struggle to make much money.
- id00 4mo agoActually it was my fault misreading the comment I replied to. Initially I've read the meaning of it as the whole domain of video games will "get expired" with the advancement of AI. After re-reading it, I totally agree with the comment message
- legocoder 4mo agoImportant to have those as a foundation or base, to introduce own custom games with broader audience and control the market economy on my own page. My plan is to save on marketing if I already have the user.
- xboxnolifes 4mo agoSoftware has always been about selling outcomes. People didn't pay for software because they liked that particular ordering of 1s and 0s.
- WheelsAtLarge 4mo agoProgramming your own app is not practical. It's not worth the time. It's just easier to have someone else do it. I can probably write my own tax software using an LLM but there's no way I will spend the time to do it. It will probably cost me a few grand in tokens and I can't really know if it's accurate without taking lots of time to QA it. As programmers we've always been selling outcomes. No one accepts partially working code. It has to meet specifications. If a programmer can't do that then he/she loses their job. The programing profession is changing but it won't go away anytime soon.
- jp0001 4mo agoAgree. If this was this was just "look at what Fable could do quickly" that's fine. But saying it's free for now is funny. Anyone else could just make games they want to play locally for themselves and their friends now. And there are better ones online.
- willXare 4mo ago[flagged]
- tmaly 4mo agoI would have loved to see some clones of the original Nintendo games made to work in the browser as multi-player games. The original Final Fantasy would have been cool to see.