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by dpcan 16y ago
It looks like, from the game library, you can be as unique as you allow your imagination to allow. If you just jump in and tweak one of their tutorials, you won't get far, but if you take your time, design great graphics, write a fun story,
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by dpcan 16y ago
I just keep thinking about when eBay bought Skype.
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by dpcan 16y ago
Creativity is expressed in many forms, and if it were not for computers, my creative talents would never have been realized. I develop video games from the ground up, and these games wouldn't have come to life if not for computers. To answ
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by dpcan 16y ago
The free version is VERY limited however. So, going from 10% of a game to 100% would hopefully sway the reviews my way even with ads, but still - hard to say. I could start slow, with just ads on the home screen, then maybe put them throug
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by dpcan 16y ago
I'd love to know how many active installs there are of those 7M downloads. I must have downloaded it 3 times to my devices and it didn't successfully run on any of them. We have an app with over 1.2M downloads and around 500k active instal
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by dpcan 16y ago
Not only that, but there's a nice looking MP3 playing watch with FM Radio, voice recorder, AND 1GB USB Flash Drive. Just needs bluetooth ear buds.
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by dpcan 16y ago
Agreed. The poster is speaking for himself: "This is obviously not an optimal development practice - customers paying monthly are starved for new features during these dormant periods" Personally, I love that they are just leaving sh__ alo
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by dpcan 16y ago
I'm having the exact same experience with the $150 Android Tablet from KMart - the Augen. Wireless works, but the touch screen is really hard to use, and the battery dies fast, even when off, so every time I turn it on I have to plug it in
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by dpcan 16y ago
Nexus One? It's a larger screen than most devices, but still not a "tablet" I guess. Maybe this was their test run.
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by dpcan 16y ago
My computer's browser opens to 3 tabs that pertain to my work and interests. My home computer, where my wife and kids use it all the time defaults to Yahoo. Different worlds.
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by dpcan 16y ago
Yes. Android app sales.
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by dpcan 16y ago
Android is a like a whole new ball game when it comes to fragmentation. You can't rely on the same kind of touch screens, or a keyboard being present, or a trackball, or the speed being same, or an SD card existing, and the screen sizes all
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by dpcan 16y ago
That's an interesting tip about what turns programmers off. I've been operating under a similar motto, if it's hard to do, keep doing it. My best apps in the Market do some stuff that takes a lot of work and talent to complete, and those a
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by dpcan 16y ago
Not sure why you were voted down here. I have the same question. And I looked around their website and couldn't find anything. There isn't even a statement of who or how one would benefit from something like this. Their homepage badly nee
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by dpcan 16y ago
Maybe new accounts can submit RMS posts if established users "second" and "third" the submission, validating it. I do think new users with real startups can really benefit from the community, and there should still be a way to submit them b
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by dpcan 16y ago
Next year, how about NOT running a promotion at Halloween to see if you actually get the exact same number of purchases, and make even more money. My guess is that people who need Bingo card software at Halloween will just pay whatever your
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by dpcan 16y ago
Yes, and I change them ALL THE TIME. But I see this as a really good thing. I find life is easier when I know where I'm going, and I don't mind so much if it's in the wrong direction.
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Ask HN: Possible startup idea, mobile ad network with captchas?
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by dpcan 16y ago
I won't argue with you there. I've blown my $$ on mobile ads already and don't intend to do it again. Ads need captchas. If an ad is clicked, it should popup a message that says, what's 2+2 or something. If I answer that, then I'm throug
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by dpcan 16y ago
When I let my kids play this game I usually hear a "Daaaaad" after two minutes because they are in the App Store after clicking the ad on accident and don't know what to do. Same happens on the Fart apps. I have a feeling that if you have a
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by dpcan 16y ago
I commented on the article too - but, could this just be a customer retention ploy? I no longer want to cancel anything because if I need to come back and re-activate my projects, well, it looks like it may cost me double.
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by dpcan 16y ago
1 year after my first son was born I started my business. I was 23. 3 more kids and 8 (almost 9) years later, I'm still working for myself. My first son was my inspiration. This year I decided to become an independent game programmer bec
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by dpcan 16y ago
I'd consider that "featured" because you touch the little "featured" spotlight icon in the bottom of the App Store to get to these apps. I probably buy a game from these sections every week, or 2 weeks, but I almost never scour the store fo
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by dpcan 16y ago
So, if you get high up on the charts, do you plan to put the price back at $2.99 or stay/go back to $0.99 since everyday will be like you're featured?
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by dpcan 16y ago
I went the opposite route in the Android Market. When the lite version of my game hit the top 20 in its category, I made a few nice updates, and I felt the full version earned its higher price (~$4). After making the change, the number of
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by dpcan 16y ago
I have found the app marketplace to be mixed bag - it's somewhat of a marathon, but more of a slot machine. You can put in the hours, but you also have to have a little luck. If your app hits, then all that work pays off, if not, then it c
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by dpcan 16y ago
Working on my next Android game, hopefully it will come out this week - maybe Thursday ;) Then going back to do some updates to my other games. In my personal experiences in the Android market, the more polish I put on my games, the more th
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by dpcan 16y ago
Games also need - instructions - high scores - online high score boards - update mechanisms / announcements - options that can be turned on and off - methods for purchasing - a website - and more.... The idea and implementation is only the
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by dpcan 16y ago
Thank you. If you use it, why? When? What for? How is it actually "used" anyway? If you tweet, do you also ever read what's ... tweeted?
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by dpcan 16y ago
In my opinion, SquareSpace (and others) is missing the boat by not having a white-label system for web developers to resell their services invisibly. People pay web devs because they don't want to take the TIME to learn it and do it themsel

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