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by kosei 13y ago
The last game that studio published was 6 years ago - Bioshock in 2007; Bioshock 2 was shipped by another studio. If they had 100+ employees (not unreasonable for a AAA game studio), they could have incurred personnel costs of $60M+ for the
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Five Key Stats from the King IPO(medium.com)
1 points by kosei 13y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 13y ago
Note the prominence of the Invite button on each. On Twitter it's in bright red in the header, Facebook also in the header and for Tumblr it's right below the profile.
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by kosei 13y ago
Neat idea. Probably would improve if you go with click-hold rather than tap-tap-tap-tap-tap, or at least enable the ability. Also, needs more Mario pipes :)
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An Open Letter From a Death Star Architect(imgur.com)
2 points by kosei 13y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 13y ago
Probably just coincidence, but it amused me that the post was signed "Carmel", which is the name of the most famous limo service in New York City. http://www.carmellimo.com/
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by kosei 13y ago
I'm sorry, but there are a lot of games that employ dark patterns. And there are a lot of games that frequently prompt players to rate their app. It's pretty implausible that this is a primary reason that Flappy Bird reached (and
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by kosei 13y ago
"The attorney general who has been so good about pushing this ban on my guns is accused of covering up the running of actual military grade assault rifles into Mexico. I'm sure he'd say, 'Well, white man's burden. W
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by kosei 13y ago
On a side note, it's always curious to me how some threads get "picked up" and others don't, even if they're the exact same material. I wonder why that is.
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by kosei 13y ago
Separate HN thread here (with the root URL): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7216471
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by kosei 13y ago
Really interesting stuff. In researching more, the data culled and analyzed by a former Jeopardy winner blew my mind as well: http://gawker.com/5860275/how-a-geek-cracked-the-jeopardy-co...
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by kosei 13y ago
Exactly. Many ad companies fill less than 10% of ads outside of the US. Possible that's accounted for in their $1.50 CPM, but they also may be estimating quite optimistically, considering Snapchat would add a huge amount of volume to a
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by kosei 13y ago
"Feature, not a flaw" is one of my favorite responses to bug feedback too. :)
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by kosei 13y ago
From experience, I'm always wary of ad sales folks giving "conservative estimates". This assumes a standard CTR that may not apply based on the medium based on user base, actual interaction rates (assuming that Snapchat users
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by kosei 13y ago
I'm not sure how you can use a flat statistic like $9,100/year to own based on 12,000 miles per year driven, and then apply it to a Lyft driver. They could be driving 45,000 miles per year, in which case the $9,100 per year would
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by kosei 13y ago
Not gonna lie - seeing an interaction between David Hewlett and Bill Gates on a reddit AMA pretty much made my day.
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by kosei 13y ago
To be fair here, unless you're driving a luxury car like a Tesla, your depreciation, gas and maintenance costs are still probably $5/hour or less. So, call it $16/hour, and it's still well above minimum wage and most liv
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by kosei 13y ago
Yep. Endorsements are very clearly built as a LinkedIn engagement and retention feature.
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by kosei 13y ago
I have seen numbers significantly above 5-10K downloads per day for a #2 paid app.
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by kosei 13y ago
Exactly. Just the same way that every music label would make "Gangnam Style" and "Friday".
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by kosei 13y ago
Fighting for LGBT rights shouldn't be considered a "political statement" - it should be considered a human rights issue.
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by kosei 13y ago
AAA developers aren't trying to make games that earn $50K/day (while a game is getting 1MM+ installs per day). AAA developers can spend $100MM+ in development costs and are looking for titles that can make $200K/day or launch
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by kosei 13y ago
Many folks in the mobile games industry believe that Flappy Bird is actually a triumph of gaming Apple's downloads and ratings system more than it is indicative of the game's actual success. We'll see whether it's able t
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by kosei 13y ago
Exactly. Fine for a solo game developer, but when compared to most top grossing titles which regularly eclipse $250K/day (and are also long-lasting, whereas I'd guess Flappy Bird falls off the radar within a month or two). Ads nev
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by kosei 13y ago
It has interstitial ads and banner ads that refresh during the middle of gameplay. For most game developers this is an absolute non-starter and considered a terrible game experience. I absolutely would not call that a "refreshing"
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by kosei 13y ago
If you're into this kind of thing, here's a great tutorial breaking down creating Justice vs. Simian Mobile Disco - We Are Your Friends... The teacher does a fantastic breakdown on how to create this type of sound. https:/&#
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Nine things to know before smoking pot in Colorado(usatoday.com)
2 points by kosei 13y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 13y ago
Interesting variant, but it still bothers me that he made it to set out to help solve the problem of experts, most of whom will never play this game. One of the biggest reasons it was created was to solve the issue of constant draws at the
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by kosei 13y ago
Though I think that's why this is a good solution: it still provides the company with wage control while creating transparency for the employees.
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by kosei 13y ago
I won't believe it until it has a more formal name. "Organizational Attraction Bias", perhaps. :)

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