Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird

Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by indescions_2017 on Friday December 08, 2017 @08:50AM (#15878572)

Indie GameDev is absolutely a hits driven business. Often I tell people you will learn more from studying some thing like the Autobiography of Keith Richards. Than yet another build a game engine in thirty days book ;)

Html5 "io" games follow similar viral trajectories. But also have some staying power. Once they develop mechanics or features that encourage replay-ablity. Particularly at web scale multiplayer with leaderboards ;)

Some examples for Friday Fun

http://splix.io/

https://starblast.io/

http://zombs.io/

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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by metalrain on Friday December 08, 2017 @09:42AM (#15878876)

One more http://agar.io/ This one seems to have quite long legs, but no idea how profitable it is.

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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by DiThi on Friday December 08, 2017 @09:47AM (#15878914)

That's the game that made the genre that people call "io games"

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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by jameskegel on Friday December 08, 2017 @11:14AM (#15879689)

I don't like this trend, that would be like me calling all SNES games "SUPER Games" because most of them were prepended with the word "SUPER", but it's not a descriptor of the genre, just the nomenclature.

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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by Kiro on Friday December 08, 2017 @11:40AM (#15879935)

Do you have a better name?

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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by jameskegel on Friday December 08, 2017 @12:20PM (#15880230)

How about "Browser-based"?

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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by Kiro on Friday December 08, 2017 @12:56PM (#15880497)

No, besides browser-based it needs to be massively multiplayer, casual, without rounds (games are endless and you can jump right into an ongoing one) and without registration for it to qualify as an io game.

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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by DiThi on Friday December 08, 2017 @12:53PM (#15880476)

There are a lot of browser based games that are not "io games". The genre is much more narrow than you think.

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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by stevenh on Friday December 08, 2017 @09:45AM (#15878901)

zombs is a clone of http://moomoo.io/

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Re:Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird by Carioca on Friday December 08, 2017 @09:59AM (#15879019)

I still miss voar.io (now offline, apparently)

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