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Re:Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this ... by sbov on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @07:59PM (#18870615)
But what if he wanted to turn it into a AAA FPS game with RTS elements in a persistent online world that supports millions of simultaneous users?
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Re:Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this ... by nurettin on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:25AM (#18871739)
That was the next logical step during the early 2000s. Every bright-eyed college freshman on IRC was "recruiting" for his next awesome MMORPG idea.
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Re:Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this ... by skocznymroczny on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:41AM (#18872208)
It's still a thing. On gamedev forums and subreddits you still have people assembling a team. Of course he can't do any programming, he's only an idea guy and needs 5 programmers, 3 writers, 7 artists etc.
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Re:Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this ... by kungtotte on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:43AM (#18881480)
No he can't pay you anything, you'll get shares in the company which eventually will be worth gazillions because the idea is so good.
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Re:Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this ... by baud147258 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:29AM (#18872832)
No, right now it's the RPG elements that are trendy, RTS is soooo 2000.
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Re:Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this ... by crooked-v on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:48PM (#18877980)
RPGs are soooo 2016. The current thing is battle royale games.
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Re:Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this ... by baud147258 on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:52AM (#18882169)
Touché. Between CoD, CS and BattleField, it's quite true.

I was more thinking of Assassin's Creed and Far Cry when I wrote that comment.

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Re:Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this ... by cududa on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @08:35PM (#18870776)
If you're not joking and actually making that statement seriously you need to close your computer and go take a few hour walk.
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Re:Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this ... by MetalGuru on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:55PM (#18871137)
He’s joking.
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