Meet Flappy48, The Clone Game To End Clone Games

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/23/meet-flappy48-the-clone-game-to-end-clone-games/

by ruchir_21hj • 12 years ago

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tomp• 12 years ago

Spoiler alert: it requires Unity Web Player.

scope• 12 years ago

which isn't available on Linux

TOMDM2• 12 years ago

From Reddit

If you are on ubuntu just do this: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install pipelight-multi Afterwards run sudo pipelight-plugin --enable unity3d. Cheers :)

Credit to /u/rotundnut

loceng• 12 years ago

The first person to re-create this without needing an uncommon plugin will get huge traffic.

jffry• 12 years ago

sprremix• 12 years ago

http://broxxar.itch.io/flappy48

Really? I have to install a plugin just to play a simple webgame?

sergiotapia• 12 years ago

"Aw man, I need to install Java to run this applet?"

"Aw man, I need to install .NET to run this windows forms app?"

"Aw man, I need to install QT framework to run gimp? "

rplnt• 12 years ago

More recent:

"Aw man, I need to install Chrome to run this website?"

SixSigma• 12 years ago

"Aw man, I need to install X11 to run this application?"

ndeine• 12 years ago

For all it's worth: the Gimp devs were originally the creators of GTK+, which stood for "GIMP Toolkit" - so GIMP doesn't rely on QT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK+

Maakuth• 12 years ago

Maybe the intent of this posting was to poke fun at the thinking behind the quotes, but at least I think that web plugins are something that shouldn't be encouraged. Java and ActiveX applets as well as Flash and Silverlight content sucked with various levels of intensity, but they never ceased to suck. There was always at least some level of impedance mismatch between the plugin content and the surrounding web site.

With Unity web player, there's rarely any attempt to integrate it to web pages, it's just a convenient way to deliver applications through web browser. Still I don't feel good about it, as it doesn't work on this Linux laptop for example, nor it would on a range of tablets, chromebooks, etc. I'm disappointed every time when I see something that looks like a browser game, but requires some awful plugin to run.

Cthulhu_2• 12 years ago

I do think platforms like that are easier to use from a developer point of view. That, and you have a more standardized platform to run on - after all, HTML5 and all the technologies surrounding it aren't finalised or fully supported yet.

roryhughes• 12 years ago

First person to create a HTML5 version, please reply to this comment with a link. (Great idea though, other than the unity bit)

chrisBob• 12 years ago

I like how you can knock out the trailing elements, but as long as the lead number makes it through you keep going.

uptown• 12 years ago

The next iteration should set things up so the snake of boxes you're building correlate to the bitcoin blockchain.

Jare• 12 years ago

Makes sense to clone 2048 by adding it to another cloned game.

lucb1e• 12 years ago

Makes me think of this, which is somewhat similar and playable on Linux:

http://tef.github.io/flappythirds/

TOMDM2• 12 years ago

Which makes me think of this.

http://flappy2048.com/

nmikz• 12 years ago

went up to |64|2| and got a |4| on the way... £$£%!!! and when I got to 128 I somehow managed to right click.. £$£%!!!

Meet Flappy48, The Clone Game To End Clone Games

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