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Flappy 2048
- acomjean 13y agoI laughed.
- chandrew 13y agoSame!
- qwerty_asdf 13y agoMOTHER OF GOD. ...so it has come to this.
- wiredfool 13y agoI can safely say that this one is not going to wind up in my hosts file.
- matt_heimer 13y agoNot sure if you use DNS and hosts is a blacklist or you don't use DNS and hosts is a whitelist...
- wiredfool 13y agoBlacklist. The original got there. It was too addicting.
- nashashmi 13y agoI don't think I could ever succeed at this.
- jessaustin 13y agoPlease don't post victory screenshots...
- colept 13y agoThere needs to be a moratorium on the revisions of 2048. They're not even fun anymore.
- egeozcan 13y agoFrom what I understand, this actually makes fun of those endless iterations and I actually laughed out loud when I saw the title. It was all a joke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418400
- andrewflnr 13y agoYeah, but this is actually pretty lame compared to the proposals you linked. I was hoping someone had built one of those.
- egeozcan 13y agoI'd bet this is just the first iteration. It's better to ship it before no one gets the reference =)
- colept 13y agoAh, I guess I wasn't aware this was a forum for jokes. I suppose cat pictures and memes come next.
- egeozcan 13y agoFrom guidelines[1] : > anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity I'd say this gratifies one's intellectual curiosity on programming and game development. I can see you not having the same opinion and I guess we can only agree to disagree. [1]: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- colept 13y agoI would love to hear your thoughts about how your intellectual curiosity is being stimulated with Flappy2048. Because so far there is not a single insightful response. I suppose one could argue the emotional state of meditation through rhythmic controls. On the other hand, there appears to be no curious minds here so the argument is moot.
- devindotcom 13y agoI was going to play it to 2048 until I saw my score wasn't doubling at every barrier, but rather incrementing by one. Thanks but no thanks! Not trying to spend 5000 seconds on this today!
- sixothree 13y agoI could make it to 2^11, but this way I lose interest.
- Bjorkbat 13y agoLikewise, I was somewhat disappointed. On the other hand, I've discovered a new method for breaking just about anyone.
- elwell 13y agoJust hold out for the AI version someone probably just forked and is working on.
- mvirkkunen 13y agoYou mean something like this? http://mvirkkunen.github.io/Flappy-2048-AI/ http://mvirkkunen.github.io/Flappy-2048-AI/
- elwell 13y agoVery good. Now give it its own thread so I can upvote that too.
- hcz 13y agoCool :D
- rafeed 13y agoI was about to watch it all the way to 2048, but then I realized that even at a rate of 1 point per second, I'd be looking at a block jumping up and down for over 34 minutes. So I thought better and went back to work. Haha, almost got me.
- audessuscest 13y agoincoming 4D Flappy2048
- egeozcan 13y ago"Angry 4D Flappy2048 MMO doges are belong to us in 140 Bytes!" comes next and it goes on until there are so many references that no one gets the joke. At least, that's what I wish for. Seriously, I love when people extend ideas well beyond the point of absurdity. It's fun and it actually stimulates creativity.
- jackmaney 13y agoTwitch Plays 2048.
- sweettea 13y agoSpeedruns, at least: http://www.twitch.tv/extratricky http://www.twitch.tv/extratricky
- granttimmerman 13y agohttp://hnplays2048.herokuapp.com http://hnplays2048.herokuapp.com
- vxNsr 13y agotons of fun
- Area12 13y agoStaaahp.
- EGreg 13y agoLOL I never played flappy bird, but if this is what it's like, I can see why it might be a little addictive for a while.
- kzrdude 13y agoflappy bird is much harder than this. my average score was around 4.
- nilkn 13y agoI was expecting there to be two simultaneous games of Flappy Bird and 2048, where any arrow key jumps the bird and moves the blocks in the specified direction in 2048. Both games start over if your bird dies.
- zakelfassi 13y agoHmmmmm...
- ohadron 13y agoYou have just sent a pour soul on a questionable endeavour.
- Nickoladze 13y agoWas posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428175
- yaddayadda 13y agoI had a dream a few nights ago about a first-person version of 2048. I don't have time to code it, but would love it if someone did a first-person version!
- jackmaney 13y agoHmmmm.... a 2048 Minecraft mod?
- ctdonath 13y ago$19 for access to the Unreal 4 codebase, 5% of revenue. Have at it!
- winslow 13y agoHow did your dream vision playing this first-person version of 2048?
- yaddayadda 13y ago1) turn left 2) turn right 3) merge (merge current piece into facing piece, with corresponding shift in all rows/columns) 4) swap (jump viewpoint from current piece to facing piece) 5) flyover (view whole board) In my dream I actually played it several times, some times there was a flyover option and sometimes there wasn't. It was way more difficult without the flyover option! The merge was the best part! It was sort of like a 1960's movie style drug/Batman/fireworks visual event.
- bsamuels 13y agoThis is absolutely incredible. I'd like to extend an offer to the OP to purchase this app/company for 50 billion dollars.
- cclogg 13y agoHahahaha someone actually made it. But I said it had to be MMO!! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418400 But seriously this is hilarious. Edit: Oh the one Nick posted in a comment here is awesome too. Actually super challenging to move squares while playing flappy bird.
- Patrick_Devine 13y agoI believe 2048 has now officially jumped the shark.
- joezydeco 13y agoWe still need to see Flappy 2048 AI.
- tsax 13y agoIt has skipped a hop.
- epsylon 13y agoI think it jumped the shark 3 frontpage-making clones ago.
- cousin_it 13y agoFlappy Shark
- userbinator 13y agoOr flapped the bird, in this case.
- hkbarton 13y agook, i would like to pay this 50k one day.
- rjvir 13y agoYour score should double after every level, instead of increment by 1. Otherwise it would take forever to get to 2048!
- matt_heimer 13y agoI know 2048 seems like a big number but you understand that that would be 12 pipes? Most people would get that in the first minute of play. The tile colors do change every time you hit the doubled value.
- lttlrck 13y agoIt just needs to be made harder. It took me a lot longer than 1 minute to get > 12 pipes in the original.
- Nzen 13y agoA better mix of the games would increment by 2 or 4 randomly, like the 2048 board does. It's not like either game is over in 11 moves.
- amorphid 13y agoThis is a good kind of stupid. I love it!
- chaosmonkey 13y agoMuch easier than flappy bird.
- cjfont 13y agoMy chance of failing increases the moment I think about which number I'm at and how much there is left to go.
- edwardchiapet 13y agoHOLY MOTHER OF FLAPPY BIRD! Ha, this is pretty clever!
- petercooper 13y agoThis is more at my intellectual level.
- _nato_ 13y agoI have never laughed whilst opening up HN. Thank-you for that!
- zakelfassi 13y agoWelcome :)
- sharkweek 13y agoAlright, someone create Twitch plays 2048 and we'll call it a day
- granttimmerman 13y agoDone. http://hnplays2048.herokuapp.com http://hnplays2048.herokuapp.com Github: https://github.com/grant/hnplays2048 https://github.com/grant/hnplays2048
- Nzen 13y agoUgh, games are over in seconds. Without communication, the tragedy of the commons dominates decisions. And now heroku stopped the DDoS. Perhaps if it chose the most popular of the last x inputs.
- erickhill 13y agoSO much easier than both original games.
- lttlrck 13y agoWhere are the ads?
- mythz 13y agoIt has begun! The planetary forces aligned for this miracle to happen.
- LandonAB 13y ago4!
- frozenport 13y ago4 * 3 * 2 * 1=24?
- allochthon 13y agoThis game would be incomprehensible but for the recent news coverage. But it's still really funny.
- elwell 13y agoOk, "2048" game mods are officially an HN meme. Let's keep it going. What version is next?
- draugadrotten 13y agoduke nukem 2048
- andrey-p 13y ago2048 2048D?
- nostromo 13y agoI look forward to tomorrow's post that solves this with AI. (I suppose it is intended as an AI challenge, as that would be the only way to get to 2048.) I think this would be harder, at least for me, to solve with a bot than any of the previous submissions. Might actually be a fun exercise... Here's a Flappy Bird bot that got up to 200+. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiomqZhUgUc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiomqZhUgUc
- wfunction 13y agoLike this one? http://sarvagyavaish.github.io/FlappyBirdRL/ http://sarvagyavaish.github.io/FlappyBirdRL/
- piyush_soni 13y agoOk. Waiting for "Flappy 2048 4D" now.
- userbinator 13y agoHaving seen the 3D version, Flappy Bird 4D would be a lot more challenging already.
- Geee 13y agoThis is pretty incredible what's happening. I think both 2048 and Flappy Bird are the first games that can be called memes. I don't think this phenomenon has happened before? To understand the value in them you have to understand the history.
- 3minus1 13y agohttp://knowyourmeme.com/memes/surgeon-simulator-2013 http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/surgeon-simulator-2013 http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/qwop http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/qwop
- skeletonjelly 13y agoknowyourmeme have a pretty low barrier for what is a meme though.
- krazydad 13y agoI think you're overstating this, any number of simple games have been reproduced and virally spread. Tetris comes to mind. When that came out in the 80s, I was one of many who quickly produced a playable version and posted it to local bulletin boards. Similarly, many of the games discussed in Martin Gardner's and A.K. Dewdney's columns in Scientific American got pretty wide play (Conway's Life and CoreWar come to mind). The scale and spread of these particular memes is larger and faster due to easier-to-use tools for cloning previous efforts (such as git/github), and more pervasive social media.
- userbinator 13y agoOne notable distinction here is that these games are "crossbreeding" like memes, being remixed into many more different variations than before. Their simple gameplay is probably one thing that encourages this cloning and remixing.
- saraid216 13y agoNot really. They're late by several centuries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_variant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_variant
- ShaneOG 13y agoThis is amazing. Although I have to try to figure out how I am going to explain why my work isn't getting done now...
- wwweston 13y agoNext up: Desert Bus 2048.
- arikrak 13y agoOK, so when's 2048: The Movie coming out?
- habosa 13y agoI have never seen a post on HN more inevitable than this ... and I love it. I guess the next is "Flappy 2048 in pure CSS".
- Ryel 13y agothis is awesome, lmao
- jc_dntn 13y agoNext can we have 2048 Player Simulator 2014?
- adem 13y agoThis is an entirely new level of irony.
- donaldguy 13y agohttp://www.donaldguy.com/Flappy-Doge2048/ http://www.donaldguy.com/Flappy-Doge2048/ I contributed. (warning: your CPU may cry)
- iffycan 13y agoI was going to write this... but in mine, the whole board is the bird, and you play normal 2048 while avoiding barriers.
- cyphunk 13y agois there a cryptocoin for that yet?