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Re:Show HN: I built an Android game after work with a friend... by med00d on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @10:12AM (#8492760)
Nice! It's funny, but I was just reading about a similar game being built, but this guy took 16 months and spent $58K building the app. Here's the post http://forums.makingmoneywithandroid.com/income-reports/1635... where he talks about it. His game isn't exactly the same, and definitely has a lot more going on, but there are some similarities for sure.
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Re:Show HN: I built an Android game after work with a friend... by dmix on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @10:24AM (#8492820)
35k? That seems like a big, risky investment considering he doesn't even have any developers or designers in-house and this is his 3rd app.

Although maybe he prefers doing one-offs? I'm not super-familiar with the game scene.

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Re:Show HN: I built an Android game after work with a friend... by med00d on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @10:40AM (#8492894)
It seems like this is sort of a "hail mary" for him. He's hoping to make $600K over the next 3 years and he's planning on spending a ton of money on ads.
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Re:Show HN: I built an Android game after work with a friend... by cocoflunchy on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @10:43AM (#8492907)
The thread is from march 2012, and his app has between 1k and 5k downloads. I doubt he made a good return on his investment... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhs.wordse...
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Re:Show HN: I built an Android game after work with a friend... by med00d on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @10:47AM (#8492931)
The user joined in March 2012, but the thread is from 10-17-2014.
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Re:Show HN: I built an Android game after work with a friend... by cocoflunchy on Thursday October 23, 2014 @03:00PM (#8500053)
Oops, you're right.
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Re:Show HN: I built an Android game after work with a friend... by computerjunkie on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @01:59PM (#8494046)
> but this guy took 16 months and spent $58K building the app

Wow. $58K is a lot of money for an android game.

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Re:Show HN: I built an Android game after work with a friend... by quiqueqs on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @10:18AM (#8492798)
Wow, $35K just for graphics work, and cheaper than the actual development. Definitely something I couldn't afford hah
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