In this case it’s a less sympathetic target, but I tended to interpret this Youtube brigading incident as being the last straw that made Notch sell off Minecraft and withdraw into his mansion to do bad tweets from a golden toilet:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140402073226/http://notch.net/2014/03/lets-talk-about-zexyzek/
Seems like 2014 was a year when Youtube got big enough that toxic behavior started to spread outside the boundaries of its notorious comments sections
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the reason I think that robert yang article is important is because it outlines how yes, a lot of it was just “”"“gamer”""" brigading but the speed at which the major games publications latched onto the idea of a dude from vietnam making an OBVIOUSLY derivative game OBVIOUSLY for the purposes of just making tons of money from ads was pretty shameful
like the difference between notch and dong nguyen is that kotaku et. al did an actual “investigation” into the spritework on flappy bird with the intent of proving plagarism
I think the publications have gotten better since then but still
Oh shit. I’ve been thinking a lot about Flappy Bird lately. I didn’t realize it was pewdiepie that headed that up. That explains why everyone I met had the exact same five words to say about the game. I don’t think I found out who pewdiepie was for like a couple years after.
I walked through a Dave & Busters and saw a giant arcade 2-player Flappy Bird clone and it made me unbearably sad.
Hmm, doing a few searches to support my narrative, PewDiePie was a major second-wave amplifier rather than the leader per se. According to this timeline, by January 10 2014 Flappy Bird was a top ten app on the app store due to organic growth of some kind (either store promotion virtuous cycle, or some other community discussion that’s hard to track down). PewDiePie’s video came out on January 27. It has 36 million views, so it was still probably a necessary factor in making the attention level so overwhelming that the creator withdrew the game.
Flappy Bird is a good game and so is spin copters
He hasn’t tweeted since 2017 which makes me sad
isnt there a flappy bird battle royale game now?
oh here it is
i never got over that all the indie devs were like FLAPPY GAME JAM right around when they were incredibly mad about ridiculous fishing getting ripped off
guys
the guy who smashed the PS4 was a Nintendo fan
the end
also video game developers ripping off good or popular games (and other media) is a time honored tradition and everyone of every nationality does it
like, shit, the auto battler is the hot new shit and two different major Western devs have ripped off the cool Chinese group who came up with it
yeah certainly the infuriating tendency for people to only credit whoever the localized popularizer of a trend is no matter how long it took to reach their sphere (and, even in an era of infinite access, no matter how technically accessible it was to them previously) isn’t a strictly racist phenomenon, though it’s definitely exacerbated by structural inequalities like racism, which is especially infuriating because we want it to broaden understanding and it somehow does the opposite as often as not.
about ten minutes into botw i was shocked re: how brazenly they knocked off shadow of the colossus so
Honestly, it’s about time people start ripping it off more liberally.
shadow of the colossus came out as long after link to the past as breath of the wild did after shadow of the colossus
Mobile game adaptations being the most successful arcade machines in the US market is… a whole mood.
There’s also gambling games but for children to go along with them!
The mobile games are at least actual games!
Why are we talking about ALttP? It’s a stopgap between TLoZ and OoT. And if we’re talking about the miniscule space of refinement between two revolutions… Link’s Awakening does everything ALttP does and does it better.
Why can’t we have both and I can play as either
Are there any space exploration games that make use of mythological (or otherwise non-scientific) cosmologies?
I would love this, but I can’t think of any.
Hadean Lands isn’t a space sim but it is on a space ship that operates according to alchemical principles, in a space cosmology that is mythological in nature.