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Re:The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career by r3bl on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @05:25PM (#13709808)
> for example, 2048 and Flappy Bird both had open source versions, possibly unofficial

I know you're using them just as an example in your comment and this might lure people away from your points, but the "original" 2048 (the one we all fell in love with) really is open source. In fact, it got to the front of HN with almost 3k votes, and the author left multiple comments in that thread.

So yeah, my point is, the "original" 2048 is not only open source, but HN definitely had some sort of an impact on it becoming a thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7373566

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Re:The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career by germanier on Thursday February 23, 2017 @05:31AM (#13712881)
The original 2048 was not the 2048 we all know and love but the non-open-source iOS game "Threes" of which 2048 was a clone. Here is their story http://asherv.com/threes/threemails/
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Re:The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career by cableshaft on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @05:44PM (#13709965)
Actually I knew that, the 'possibly unofficial' was more in reference to the Flappy Bird github repos I've encountered. I've checked the code for 2048 a few times to see how HTML5 games can be made (I used to make Flash games).
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