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Elance Flappy Bird jobs
- zacinbusiness 13y agoGreat artists steal.
- alexkcd 13y agoPoor artists outsource.
- zacinbusiness 13y agoI see what you did there.
- priley 13y agoHaha. Midnox brothers are my favorite of the YCW2012 class.
- 31reasons 13y agoHere comes the birds that can't fly!
- sheetjs 13y agoThis should come as 0 surprise, as people try to take advantage of the "void" created by the developer's announcement that the game will be removed. That being said, there are still requests for older games such as: - candy crush: https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/q-candy%20crush https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/q-candy%20crush - temple run: https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/q-temple%20run https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/q-temple%20run
- zacinbusiness 13y agoFlappy candy bird crush run: You tap the screen to make a candy-colored bird jump over, or dodge under, obstacles of a jungle theme. Anyone is free to build this out but I'd like .01% of the profits for the idea, and I'd like to be credited as the inventor :-)
- 31reasons 13y agoI would make it Angry Flappy candy bird crush run.
- bertil 13y agoJoke all you want, ‘10000000’ is a Match-3 cum Hack-and-Slash with a similar Frankensteiny-let’s-sew-games-together feel to it, and it's amazing.
- joshschreuder 13y agoYou can't use the word 'candy' in a game though, or King will be after you.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoElance has requests for clones all the time. I see people looking Instagram, Flipboard, and what's app clones regularly.
- MartinCron 13y agoI guess it's a good thing that society has moved on to the point where we can call candy crush an "older game"
- jimmcslim 13y agoVultures.
- zacinbusiness 13y agoFlappy vultures?
- dav- 13y agoThank you! I've been trying to come up with a name for my Flappy Bird clone.
- zacinbusiness 13y agoNP. .05% of profits is all I ask.
- chbrown 13y agoIn related news, HN front page filled with open source FlappyBird clones.
- zacinbusiness 13y agoFlappy as in "Birds."
- TheZenPsycho 13y agoWell, this is obvious isn't it? Git clone open-flappy-bird change title screen sell on elance.
- mattgreenrocks 13y agoAt least three headlines reference this game, so it's kind of true. Kinda gets old how many people jump on the current wave of mainstream opinion for pageviews.
- viach 13y agoAhh, now I see the point why Nguyen removed Flappy Birds from app store. The plan obviously was to sell the game (the real one, instead of bad copy) to all these guys on elance.
- icpmacdo 13y agoI think its near impossible he will be making as much selling the source on elance compared to the ad revenue he was pulling in.
- mcescalante 13y agoIf you look at the iOS App Store, all of these "clones" are in the top 15: 1. Ironpants 2. Fly Birdie 5. Flappy Bee 15. Flappy Plane I'm sure more will come, but it's still crazy to me that there are 4 apps that all have essentially the same mechanics. It also makes me wonder how long the app store will ride out helicopter style games. I jokingly said to my roommates tonight, "we should just make a mini putt clone for iOS." Seems like I never have any idea anymore of which old arcade or flash based hit will pop up on my phone with a fresh look as the #1 app.
- saimey 13y agohttp://i.imgur.com/37nIErT.gif http://i.imgur.com/37nIErT.gif
- samstave 13y agoAre you not aware that flappy birds is a clone of a game of nearly 10 years old??? And even that is a clone of older games?
- mcescalante 13y agoyeah, as ChrisClark mentioned, it was late and I decided to call them "helicopter style games", since I think the first one I ever played in this style was the helicopter one (I think on addicting games or something). Does anyone know the official name for this style of press / tap to play game?
- waylandsmithers 13y agoI always thought it was Jetpack but maybe even that was influenced by something earlier...
- vidarh 13y agoDragonsden on the C64, from 1983, is the oldest game I remember that relies on the "press something to move up a discrete amount" mechanic, though it would be totally unsurprising if there are older examples: http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Dragonsden http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Dragonsden
- brianbreslin 13y agoPlaying devils advocate, how long would a clone take to build? You are recreating graphics and game mechanics. Could this stuff be easily built using game salad or another drag and drop game Dev app?
- fhd2 13y agoGiven how the game is utterly trivial and how the mechanics are already figured out... a day might work.
- benched 13y agoI think I could do it in 2 days tops, to the same level of polish, using only my personal iOS game library. I've been a game developer for more than 20 years, though.
- arfliw 13y ago2 days sounds about right - thus why all of those jobs are for $500 or less.
- dasil003 13y agoMore likely it's because those jobs are submitted by a bunch of clueless wannabe tech millionaires who've never worked with a programmer in real life and have no clue about what is involved—all they know is it's a pretty simple game.
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- dwd 13y agoIt's sad to see the number of proposals on each of these. Who are these "programmers" who can code an app but are incapable of submitting it to an app store and keep any proceeds themselves?
- eru 13y agoNon-cynically, there are some people who might prefer a fixed fee negotiated up front to the hit-or-miss payments from the app store.
- dwd 13y agoAnyone seen some recent numbers? An article on Forbes estimated an average of $4k, and I've seen a survey where the median was a bit less than $1k.
- jiggy2011 13y agoBasically they are shorting flappy bird.
- dylandrop 13y agoRealistically, as a programmer, you know the market is about to be SUPER saturated. In my opinion these people know they are being scammy, so the only appropriate response is to scam them back: build one Flappy Bird clone, sell this one clone to each of the hundreds of people trying to get rich off of you, and cackle to yourself while the world burns with countless Flappy Bird clones.
- dwd 13y agoNice...Create an app, build demand, make money, restrict supply creating secondary market for developing a replacement, make more money - Like it.
- mikeash 13y agoJust another variant on the classic advice that the best place to be in a gold rush is to be the person selling the shovels. I wouldn't waste my time building my own clone, because aside from being completely unfulfilling, it's also likely to make no money for me by the time I get it done. But I'd happily charge my standard consulting rate to build one for somebody else, and let them eat the probable loss.
- gojomo 13y agoI'm looking forward to a First-Person Flapper. Or a Massively Multiplayer Online Bird-Flapping Game.
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- daliusd 13y agoSomeone already did first one: http://www.alphabetagamer.com/first-person-flappy-bird-alpha-download/ http://www.alphabetagamer.com/first-person-flappy-bird-alpha... "Run in Crowd" is stupid enough already. "Flap in Crowd" ?
- joeblau 13y agoHumanity is entertaining. I wrote the beginnings of the game[1] in a few hours Today. I should have sold it... I still can sell it! [1] - https://github.com/joeblau/FlappyBlock https://github.com/joeblau/FlappyBlock
- beedogs 13y agoI think I'm going to just release a game called "Push the Button". There's a big red button in the middle of the goddamned screen and the objective is to push it as many times as you can. As long as I don't kill a guy in Guam, I think I'll be set for life; I base this assumption on the H.L. Mencken conjecture.
- bertil 13y agoIt's been tried as a joke not unlike yours, under the name ‘Click a cow’, and made a lot of money and many enthusiast (many ironically) players. Apparently, what you are set for life with are unending questions about the nature of what is fun, and designing meta-games.
- hayksaakian 13y agoThis is an interesting development. Lesson for contract developers looking for work: Pay attention to apps that gain hype, and build clones for people on e-lance.
- caiob 13y agoGames and IAP have destroyed innovation on mobile. :(
- yayolius 13y agoIt is real for someone make the app in 2 days for 5k in ios and android as this guy asks: https://www.elance.com/j/app-game-developed/52848809/ https://www.elance.com/j/app-game-developed/52848809/ (there are at least 11 guys that say that is possible)
- codygman 13y agoWell, there will be something in 2 days but it probably won't work. Of course an easy way to make money with this is use the html5 version with phonegap.
- lee337 13y agohttp://ellisonleao.github.io/clumsy-bird http://ellisonleao.github.io/clumsy-bird ★★★☆☆
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- moondowner 13y agoIt's sad to see how much 'game reskinning' is going on.
- yohann305 13y agoThere's even a course that shows you all the steps involved in creating your own flappy bird clone. It comes with the source code. dong! https://www.udemy.com/publish-your-flappy-bird-clone-iphone-game-ez-no-coding/ https://www.udemy.com/publish-your-flappy-bird-clone-iphone-...
- uloweb 13y agoIt is possible to create one game and then sell it 10x times with different name/images.
- murphiam 13y agoyes, it's possible. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11216587/how-to-rebrand-and-redistribute-ios-ipad-application http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11216587/how-to-rebrand-a...
- beloch 13y agoIf I were one of the people listed on this link, I'm not sure how I could look myself in the mirror without throwing up in my throat just a little.
- Elizer0x0309 13y agoTo be honest flappy bird, is a clone. Karma in action. Also it's such a simplistic game, that the easiness of "cloning" it attracts the copiers. Imagine if it was an innovative, highly technological app.... Much harder to clone.
- hatchoo 13y agoI'll probably build a game that has the player enter the following number sequence 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 before a timer runs out.
- netcan 13y agoIt would be pretty interesting to be able to see a handful of projects go from start to finish in some easy to follow way. For these guys offering $149, how many end up with an app? https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/q-clone/ https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/q-clone/
- jmngomes 13y agoIt's kind of sould deadening to see jobs like "Port small IOS / Android Game to Windows Phone 8 - tight deadline" going for $150...but maybe they'll get what they pay for, and perhaps learn from the experience.
- Cowicide 13y agoCrap... saw this on there here: "Looking for someone to help with app rankings long term and also add lots of reviews to the app without getting caught. Please advise your methods and how we will not get caught. " Example below [obscured] /blog/flappy-birds-smoke-mirrors-scamming-app-store/ https://www.elance.com/j/apple-store-rankings-optimiser-reviews/52833925/ https://www.elance.com/j/apple-store-rankings-optimiser-revi...
- alexc05 13y agoYeah - I looked at the reviews for his other games and it really could be that there are really good markov chains going on. The frequency of completely unrelated stories about ruined lives etc.. is "odd" The quality of the language however is pretty good. So it's either really good markov - or it's possible that a "three wolf moon" joke review phenomenon has happened for this game. Note the number of instagram pictures of flappy bird scores. It's very possible that a social media that adults aren't on has gone viral. Still - foul play is also an interesting theory - but sour grapes might be the cause of all the foul play theories. Still! Interesting phenomenon.
- corresation 13y agoJust as an aside about Flappy Bird, pulling in Bitcoin given it's another hot topic -- on Android he used the AndEngine project (http://www.andengine.org/ http://www.andengine.org/). It's interesting to see that the project has received absolutely no donations/tips at all.
- grogenaut 13y agoWrite this once and sell it to all those people. Shovelware the cloners
- kaa2102 13y agoWhat is the point of diverting so much talent, money and energy towards such an aimless pursuit? Entertainment has value, but only to a certain limit.
- jason_slack 13y agoHow is it possible to make a game so fast for so little money? I am 2 weeks away from releasing my IOS game that has taken me 9 months (with life intrusions) and I know C++/OpenGL, etc.
- rjbrock 13y agoThese games don't actually use C++ or OpenGL. They use libraries like SpriteKit for iOS. I was able to code a similar game this weekend with very little Objective C experience. Its a lot of fun too!
- thrillgore 13y agoI'm just going to leave this here: www.dogetek.co/game/
- nickesoto 13y agoshameless plug here, but anyone that wants a Flappy Birds clone, please feel free to fork my project https://github.com/nicksoto/MarioLand https://github.com/nicksoto/MarioLand save yourself a few thousand dollars. just switch the avatar and you got yourself flappy birds...
- murphiam 13y agoA Flappy Narayan (cat) would be cool
- arose4u68 13y agoDon't need to take God's name in vain jerk. Just to get your point across.