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Re:Elance Flappy Bird jobs by bertil on Monday February 10, 2014 @01:57AM (#7209557)
It's been tried as a joke not unlike yours, under the name ‘Click a cow’, and made a lot of money and many enthusiast (many ironically) players. Apparently, what you are set for life with are unending questions about the nature of what is fun, and designing meta-games.
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Re:Elance Flappy Bird jobs by zecho on Monday February 10, 2014 @02:06AM (#7209580)
It was Cow Clicker and it was a weird, terrible experiment.

http://www.bogost.com/blog/cow_clicker_1.shtml

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_cowclicker/all/

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Re:Elance Flappy Bird jobs by tokipin on Monday February 10, 2014 @02:12AM (#7209596)
there was also a short NPR story about it:

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/18/142518949/

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Re:Elance Flappy Bird jobs by xster on Monday February 10, 2014 @06:21PM (#7214512)
It's on Wired too Related note: can't believe that was 2011 when I read it. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_cowclicker/ Time flies terrifyingly fast.
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Re:Elance Flappy Bird jobs by tokipin on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:21PM (#7215040)
no kidding. i'm afraid of seeing how long ago it was that i created this HN account...
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Re:Elance Flappy Bird jobs by headgasket on Monday February 10, 2014 @09:16AM (#7211153)
I just read the wikipedia write up about this -ROFL. Seriously I cant believe I missed this while it occurred. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker
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Re:Elance Flappy Bird jobs by dwd on Monday February 10, 2014 @02:03AM (#7209576)
Don't forget this insanity http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
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Re:Elance Flappy Bird jobs by andreyf on Monday February 10, 2014 @03:35AM (#7209812)
I have to say this game is surprisingly thought provoking and fun. To each his own, I guess.
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Re:Elance Flappy Bird jobs by pilif on Monday February 10, 2014 @06:53AM (#7210472)
Especially once you launch the Web Developer tools for a bit of additional fun.
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Re:Elance Flappy Bird jobs by andreyf on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:14PM (#7215012)
I was thinking Excel :)
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