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This is now the second Flappy Bird clone within 24 hours and sometimes I wonder what's going on in such people. Talented coders who can program like hell but ar

by apunic 13y ago

This is now the second Flappy Bird clone within 24 hours and sometimes I wonder what's going on in such people. Talented coders who can program like hell but are not able to find an own idea or at least to steal some neat idea and make it better. Do they really think because it's open source or HTML5 makes it better?

ellisonleao 13y ago
thanks for the comment man! This is a personal study project to show how it easy to code this famous game. It's not for personal showoff or something like this. It's to show to youg ones how it's easy to execute the game idea and to open their minds to other things.
jaredsohn 13y ago
This is just the second Flappy Bird clone to make Hacker News; there are many others (you can find some on reddit.) There is nothing wrong with developers seeing something they want to build and spending time building it. (Especially when it is so quick.) One advantage of creating a clone in HTML5 is that the original game was not made in that way and it is easier to share that way via social media; perhaps one of these could get a lot of traffic.
ricardobeat 13y ago
This is not the second one, nor will it be the last. Kongregate alone has dozens: http://www.kongregate.com/search?q=flappy http://www.kongregate.com/search?q=flappy It's just hype. If people are motivated to learn new skills because of it, then that's a good thing.
- ganeumann 13y ago
  I showed my son how to open the debugger and change the opening width in the pipes to make it easier. After he took a picture of a score >1000 to show his friends, he started to mess with all the other variables. The he asked me to teach him how to make his own game. Win.
  - ellisonleao 13y ago
    now that's a nice reply :)
  - sebastianavina 13y ago
    now teach him wireshark and let him hack/stalck some of his friends.
justinpombrio 13y ago
Why would you assume that someone is not able to think of their own ideas simply because one of the things they have made is a Flappy Bird clone?
qjfd054 13y ago
It's one of the top posts on HN. Clearly people are interested. As a a lead programmer at one of the top venture backed companies in the SV, I find this work phenomenal. What the * have you done?

by apunic 13y ago

ellisonleao 13y ago

thanks for the comment man! This is a personal study project to show how it easy to code this famous game. It's not for personal showoff or something like this. It's to show to youg ones how it's easy to execute the game idea and to open their minds to other things.

jaredsohn 13y ago

This is just the second Flappy Bird clone to make Hacker News; there are many others (you can find some on reddit.) There is nothing wrong with developers seeing something they want to build and spending time building it. (Especially when it is so quick.) One advantage of creating a clone in HTML5 is that the original game was not made in that way and it is easier to share that way via social media; perhaps one of these could get a lot of traffic.

ricardobeat 13y ago

This is not the second one, nor will it be the last. Kongregate alone has dozens: http://www.kongregate.com/search?q=flappy http://www.kongregate.com/search?q=flappy It's just hype. If people are motivated to learn new skills because of it, then that's a good thing.

ganeumann 13y ago
I showed my son how to open the debugger and change the opening width in the pipes to make it easier. After he took a picture of a score >1000 to show his friends, he started to mess with all the other variables. The he asked me to teach him how to make his own game. Win.
- ellisonleao 13y ago
  now that's a nice reply :)
- sebastianavina 13y ago
  now teach him wireshark and let him hack/stalck some of his friends.

justinpombrio 13y ago

Why would you assume that someone is not able to think of their own ideas simply because one of the things they have made is a Flappy Bird clone?

qjfd054 13y ago

It's one of the top posts on HN. Clearly people are interested. As a a lead programmer at one of the top venture backed companies in the SV, I find this work phenomenal. What the * have you done?