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Re:Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece fr... by Farbklex on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:01AM (#26341334)
The worst side of it is, that it drags the rest of the mobile game ecosystem down with it.

Whenever I browse the Google Play Store, it is an unplessant experience. It is hard to find out which games are "real" games without the very exploitive mechancis (of course, it is a spectrum, so it's not always easy to tell). It is hard to find out which features the games have: Singelplayer, multiplayer, offline playable, gamepad support?

Especially the last part annoyed me when I tried out a new android controller but couldn't figure out which game would actually work with it.

But there are good games available on mobile. They are just burried under a lot of unpleasent ones.

Long story short, I started developing my own, gamepad optimized game launcher for android which offers more of a console-like experience. Should I ever invest way more time in it, I'll add my own search and filter overlay for the play store…

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Re:Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece fr... by hi_mom on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:00AM (#26366409)
On iOS Apple launched Apple Arcade to combat this and I must say, those games are pretty good. I seem to recall Google launching a similar service?
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Re:Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece fr... by PicassoCTs on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:35AM (#26354396)
Name/Type of Game + Open Source
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Re:Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece fr... by tubularhells on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:46AM (#26341647)
Google will van your application if you do a filtered Play store search, so make sure it is available on F-Droid and elsewhere.
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Re:Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece fr... by nsb1 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:51AM (#26341686)
....like...down by the river??

;)

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Re:Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece fr... by wincy on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:20AM (#26342768)
Original meaning is the FBI van shows up and arrests you, I think it’s morphed to a van shows up and puts a black bag over your head, or your app in this case, and your app gets disappeared. I first saw the term on 4chan in like the mid 2000s.
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Re:Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece fr... by novaleaf on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:42AM (#26344653)
no. parent is sarcastically referring to a (very old now, circa 1990) saturday-night-live skit where the actor always ends up mentioning that he lives "in a van, down by the river"

I think parent poster means that there are no other places to put the app/launcher.

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Re:Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece fr... by wincy on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:55AM (#26344826)
Right I know the van down by the river sketch with Chris Farley, but the parent post is almost definitely using the verb “vanned” to mean the app will get disappeared.
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Re:Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece fr... by tubularhells on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:07AM (#26355907)
No, I the phone just autocorrected 'ban' to van. You people can be really fucking strange at times..
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Re:Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece fr... by bitwize on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:47AM (#26343071)
Hey, it's SV. Living in a van down by the river is the new dream.
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