Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

Re:Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time by nemo1618 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:02PM (#29925098)

Hey, that's the Barkley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden title music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWKQiZVBtu4

I really like your idea for solving the "endless runner problem." I guess the reason we haven't seen mobile games adopt this already is because each restart is an opportunity to show you an ad. :/

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Re:Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time by cole-k on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:14PM (#29928357)

Not that I endorse it, but you could do some (or all) of the following to preserve the suggested system while still having everyone's favorite size of transactions:

- Ads after X failures

- Spend Fun Points to avoid ads and prevent misclicks from subtracting your score

- Fun points can be bought

- or obtained by watching an ad

- or obtained very rarely through regular play (e.g. by spending many Fun Coins)

- Spend Fun Coins to customize your ball and background

- Fun coins can be bought

- or obtained by watching an ad

- or obtained infrequently through regular play

- Daily bonuses which scale with number of consecutive days logged in

- Fun Points and/or Coins obtained by referring a friend

et cetera

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Re:Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time by exikyut on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:42PM (#29949491)

Aw nah, I hate it when people bootleg really good MODs and ruin th--

Oh.

Oh ok. This is whatever the opposite of a bootleg is. It's something entirely new.

So I think this might be my new favorite thing, if for no reason than that I honestly cannot think of anything as straightforwardly and equivalently awesome. Perhaps the Bad Apple stop-motion PV (https://youtu.be/240Vq6tIxio) is vaguely in the ballpark.

Thanks.

Now to close it so I don't wear it out. :D

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