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What happened to innovative games?(altdevblogaday.com)
23 points by davidtyleryork 15y ago|13 comments
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Right you are ;) We believe that social games are a natural fit for real-money play.
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
But what is gambling compared to a virtual currency social game? They both employ same mechanics, and with gambling you can win real money, and with virtual currency you can only sink money in. There are differences in the amount of money,
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
^ This. I don't think government intervention is the answer. In respect to tobacco companies, the government only intervened when public outcry became deafening, but the public interest in the abuse was what drove their involvement. Also, c
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Ah, well I definitely missed that when doing my research, but I did build my assumptions into my language (ie using the word "untapped" versus "untouched", implying that it existed but wasn't fully utilized). That said, I think the word "en
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Yes but it will also pull gambling out of the "Sin City" mentality, which is a good thing for both the industry and players
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
ACK! Fixed it, thanks for the heads up
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Great article, thanks for sharing :)
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Hey nik, thanks for the comment. So you know, the number is that 81% of women prefer to play slots when they go to casinos. This doesn't mean that they are 81% of slot machine players (the actual ratio is closer to 52% male, 48% female).
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Facebook now offers nested translation via Bing(imgur.com)
1 points by davidtyleryork 15y ago|0 comments
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Zynga's Next Billion Dollar Opportunity(businessinsider.com)
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Former astronaut to lead starship effort(bbc.co.uk)
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Balancing the two sides of a marketplace is one of the toughest tasks for an early two-sided platform. Great work!
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
hey, not bad. this is very similar to an idea that I had that was basically "a stock market for music artists" I'd love to see this go in the Hype Machine direction, honestly. Both with the way the media player is on the page and with the a
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What would you say is "The Future of Gaming"?(altdevblogaday.com)
1 points by davidtyleryork 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Brilliant!
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
I remember when I had marketing questions, Joel answered me even though we had only corresponded on Twitter a couple times. I'm rooting for you dude! :) Also, Buffer App is one of the only social media tools that I've really adopted in my d
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Interesting, and undoubtedly true. But the pot calling the kettle black doesn't make the pot any less black
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Honestly at this point I think the damage is long done. I'm just glad that they got to eat their dog food after being so nasty to their employees
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Except when the regulatory laws or agencies in charge of cleaning house get gutted. Hooray, modern American politics!
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Programming is a language, not a science(tyleryork.tumblr.com)
5 points by davidtyleryork 15y ago|1 comments
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
SF, CA - full time Love games? We have a job for you. Betable is looking for a self-motivated, full-stack senior software engineer to join our founding team. We want someone who is passionate about web development and can help us build a w
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How to scare Zynga this Halloween(blog.betable.com)
8 points by davidtyleryork 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
No, I didnt :)
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Well look at both Zynga and Blizzard games. They are super accessible and casual friendly. Dying is an inconvenience in Blizzard games, as you said, or isn't even possible in Zynga's games (even the competitive ones like Empires & Allie
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Yeah, of course, but the gameplay is largely cyclical and repeated
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Wow article got knocked from 3rd to 35th instantly. Downvotes are incredibly overpowered
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Hey, thanks for pointing this out. I added it to the post.
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Nice comment, this is almost exactly how World of Warcraft works as well. There's always some awesomely epic item that rarely drops from even the easiest of raid bosses
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by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you liked the post!

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