tudorizer

I'm continusly impressed by the progress of Javascript recently and WebAppBuilder does look like it took a lot of hard work. BUT... quality cross-platform-automated-build-100-appstores-deployable unicorns are still fantasy. It might work for simple games, like the one in your example, but add a serious physics engine and sprites in there and too much creativity and such frameworks become more pain than help. Web is still high-level and hard to compete with platform specific optimizations and low-level APIs. Especially in a creative world like game development.

I have heard so many times friends/colleagues dreaming of apps which you write once and deploy it on everything. Can we please put a stop to these stories and take the time to build quality games, rather that get rich quick fart apps?

Silly me. I hesitated clicking on the link because I was affraid of reading a super long list.

Looks sweet.

Works now. I think the rest of the world got it with a delay :)

I'd be curious to find out this too.

Doesn't work for me either (Germany)

Something is not ok for me. On all my browsers, I can play the chords and hear the sounds, but I can not playback the recodings you guys shared. What gives?

Is it bigger than the Pentagon?

That's how our whole consumer culture is tricked :)

This has "marketing campaign" written all over it. Good try.

I would add to you list: best shoes to wear while coding, best carpet, best candles and, of course, best room paint color. This is what real men care about while coding, not algorithms, design patterns and all those girly topics.

This is such an awesome idea. I wonder why nobody give a real world use to games like Angry Birds. Given the right methophor there must be a way of putting an useful angle on mindless entertainment.

Be crazy. Just go at their front door saying:

"Hey, googlerz! Hit me up with a job. I already SQL-injected my CV in your main AdWords database. Come on, I won't be a xoogler, cross my heart!"

* Disclaimer: Concepts are language should be taken as a pamflet.

I'd be curious to see this too. Being an iOS developer, I realize that it's not a trivial task to abstract the UIKit classes so themes are created. Let's see if anyone did this.

Ah, I see what you did here.

"Difficult choice : be an entrepreneur in Strasbourg or a software engineer in SF."

Being an entrepeneur is not only about being the boss of your own company. I think many people get this wrong. Entrepreneurship should be in the blood. The hunger, the curiosity, the will to change the daily-job status quo.

I used to run my own 2 companies with 2 partners, but I decided to change something and try another approach. Currently I have a well payed job which allows me to save money for peronal business experiments. The main reason why I decided to give up my previous 2 companies was that I did not like the enviroment. Don't get me wrong, my partners were good guys, but I felt no chemistry and no inspiration.

My suggestion: go for it. Being a software engineer in SF will open new gates for you and if entrepreurship is in your blood, you can not fail. ;)

holy fucking wow. I knew that tumblr rocked, but not that much.

Why not? There is no right or wrong answer, just something to make get the creative and logica juice flowing. The answer can be anything from a joke to an elaborated equation.

The closest example I can think of is Square and look how long it took them.

The you should try per hour. Example:

Project X has an estimate of 200 hours, but if at the end of the project 230 hours are used, you bill 230. This is usually the best way to protect yourself from late changes, feature creeps and undecided clients. This approach also puts more responsibility on the decisions made by the client.

If your friend already has some proven track record, clients should trust him as a professional.

The downside to hourly payed is that some clients don't like it and it's understandable. A failed project is not only the responsibility of the coding team.

Here's a neat article about this: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/10/charging-per-hour-vs...

Wait wait wait, if it's per hour, estimates don't matter. Do you mean per project?

Interesting. Does it do anything else than entertain for a few seconds? Just curious.

Wouldn't it be cool to rent this in the name of Hacker News for 2-3 days? With 150 people, it's not that expensive.

I remembered correct that Snoop tried this before:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2010/07/snoop-d...

This can mean that renting a stadium might be around the same price.

Who's in with me? :D

Aren't these..uhm...common sense?

Seems like you had a lot of fun and good progress. Keep it up!

Did you submit any game to the app store, yet?

That explanation is surely more difficult to understand than the game :)

Design can be subjective so be sure to find someone who's on the same wavelength with you.

Share your idea and I'm sure there will be some people who think it's cool. Don't take it too hard if a lot of designers say "no". We're a moody bunch ;)

Also, maybe this will help: http://www.builditwith.me/

Why do you say it's an emulator? Looks like a ported game to me. Ported in JS, that is.