What it's like to work with Mark Pincus

Re:What it's like to work with Mark Pincus by saraid216 on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @02:05PM (#5294154)

I didn't read the OP, but I did read the other posts in the blog. I'm not really impressed by her capacity for insight.

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Re:What it's like to work with Mark Pincus by mnicole on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @02:31PM (#5294310)

> Working at Zynga, people always tell me they “had the idea for Draw Something before Draw Something”.

Well, considering Pictionary was first published in 1985..

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Re:What it's like to work with Mark Pincus by timr on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @03:25PM (#5294658)

There was also an extremely popular mobile game in Japan that had the same basic premise, a year or so before Draw Something hit it big.

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Re:What it's like to work with Mark Pincus by macspoofing on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @05:09PM (#5295307)

There was also a browser (flash?) game with a similar premise that I played in the mid-2000s.

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Re:What it's like to work with Mark Pincus by weareconvo on Thursday February 28, 2013 @01:45AM (#5297457)

And considering "ideas", especially in the games world, mean absolutely fucking nothing.

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Re:What it's like to work with Mark Pincus by zheng on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @02:15PM (#5294216)

Well, "she" doesn't have any, considering she is a he.

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Re:What it's like to work with Mark Pincus by saraid216 on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @02:36PM (#5294346)

Really? I thought 'Sash' would be a female name. My mistake.

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