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Programmers of the world: please stop with the 2048 clones. We have jobs to do. Partners to attend to. Friends to acknowledge. Pets to feed. Plants to water. Ha

by nkoren 13y ago

Programmers of the world: please stop with the 2048 clones. We have jobs to do. Partners to attend to. Friends to acknowledge. Pets to feed. Plants to water. Have some mercy already!

robot_ 13y ago
Plus, its not really that much fun.
- jgh 13y ago
  Yeah but it's so much easier than making flappy birds clones!
  - TeMPOraL 13y ago
    Also the end product is much more interesting.
  - bpicolo 13y ago
    You haven't seen flappy 2048 yet, huh?
    - celebril 13y ago
      Fucking hell, why did you give them the idea‽
      - ijk 13y ago
        Because it already exists! :) http://hczhcz.github.io/Flappy-2048/ http://hczhcz.github.io/Flappy-2048/
- TheCraiggers 13y ago
  It's a good thing that what is 'fun' is purely objective! Otherwise you wouldn't be able to make such claims and still be taken seriously.
  - pasquinelli 13y ago
    given that what is fun is actually purely subjective, i don't think it would be too generous to read a statement like that with an implicit "i think".
- nick2021 13y ago
  Exactly, the creators think it's the next Flappy bird. It's not. Besides, I just spent a minute bashing the keys randomly and got a score of 2,000. Dumb.
adamb_ 13y ago
I see these as a perfect code/creativity challenge. Easy to create. Easy to digest. Keep them coming.
- judk 13y ago
  Parent wasn't against the creators creativity, parent is against the stream of games feeding our addiction and taking over our lives.
fnl 13y ago
or in the want of more interesting news...
freehunter 13y ago
Is 2048 a clone of Threes, or vice versa?
- ijk 13y ago
  Threes! came first. The chain roughly goes: Threes! was released in February. A near-clone called 1024! came out on iOS at the start of March. 2048 acknowledges the debt to 1024!, and the first commits to the git repository were in the first week of March. Once the source code was available, tiny variations became much easier to fork, and we got a cambrian explosion mostly descending from 2048. (There was another 2048 as a parallel development, with significantly different visual style. Not sure where it falls in the timeline.)
- crb 13y ago
  2048 (web) is based on 1024 (iOS), which is an (unashamed?) "free" clone of Threes! (iOS) http://thoughtfulplay.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/a-short-game-lineage-from-threes-to-2048/ http://thoughtfulplay.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/a-short-game-... Threes! has such great personality. It's so much more than 2048, and it's well worth the buck or so it costs. I hope it's had an uptick since the 2048 craze.
mayanksinghal 13y ago
+1. I can't take it anymore! (http://imgur.com/FQEHB7b http://imgur.com/FQEHB7b)

by nkoren 13y ago

Programmers of the world: please stop with the 2048 clones. We have jobs to do. Partners to attend to. Friends to acknowledge. Pets to feed. Plants to water. Have some mercy already!

robot_ 13y ago

Plus, its not really that much fun.

jgh 13y ago
Yeah but it's so much easier than making flappy birds clones!
- TeMPOraL 13y ago
  Also the end product is much more interesting.
- bpicolo 13y ago
  You haven't seen flappy 2048 yet, huh?
  - celebril 13y ago
    Fucking hell, why did you give them the idea‽
    - ijk 13y ago
      Because it already exists! :) http://hczhcz.github.io/Flappy-2048/ http://hczhcz.github.io/Flappy-2048/
TheCraiggers 13y ago
It's a good thing that what is 'fun' is purely objective! Otherwise you wouldn't be able to make such claims and still be taken seriously.
- pasquinelli 13y ago
  given that what is fun is actually purely subjective, i don't think it would be too generous to read a statement like that with an implicit "i think".
nick2021 13y ago
Exactly, the creators think it's the next Flappy bird. It's not. Besides, I just spent a minute bashing the keys randomly and got a score of 2,000. Dumb.

adamb_ 13y ago

I see these as a perfect code/creativity challenge. Easy to create. Easy to digest. Keep them coming.

judk 13y ago
Parent wasn't against the creators creativity, parent is against the stream of games feeding our addiction and taking over our lives.

fnl 13y ago

or in the want of more interesting news...

freehunter 13y ago

Is 2048 a clone of Threes, or vice versa?

ijk 13y ago
Threes! came first. The chain roughly goes: Threes! was released in February. A near-clone called 1024! came out on iOS at the start of March. 2048 acknowledges the debt to 1024!, and the first commits to the git repository were in the first week of March. Once the source code was available, tiny variations became much easier to fork, and we got a cambrian explosion mostly descending from 2048. (There was another 2048 as a parallel development, with significantly different visual style. Not sure where it falls in the timeline.)
crb 13y ago
2048 (web) is based on 1024 (iOS), which is an (unashamed?) "free" clone of Threes! (iOS) http://thoughtfulplay.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/a-short-game-lineage-from-threes-to-2048/ http://thoughtfulplay.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/a-short-game-... Threes! has such great personality. It's so much more than 2048, and it's well worth the buck or so it costs. I hope it's had an uptick since the 2048 craze.

mayanksinghal 13y ago

+1. I can't take it anymore! (http://imgur.com/FQEHB7b http://imgur.com/FQEHB7b)