Elance Flappy Bird jobs

I think I'm going to just release a game called "Push the Button". There's a big red button in the middle of the goddamned screen and the objective is to push it as many times as you can. As long as I don't kill a guy in Guam, I think I'll be set for life; I base this assumption on the H.L. Mencken conjecture.

If you look at the iOS App Store, all of these &quot;clones&quot; are in the top 15:<p>1. Ironpants<p>2. Fly Birdie<p>5. Flappy Bee<p>15. Flappy Plane<p>I&#x27;m sure more will come, but it&#x27;s still crazy to me that there are 4 apps that all have essentially the same mechanics. It also makes me wonder how long the app store will ride out helicopter style games.<p>I jokingly said to my roommates tonight, &quot;we should just make a mini putt clone for iOS.&quot; Seems like I never have any idea anymore of which old arcade or flash based hit will pop up on my phone with a fresh look as the #1 app.

It&#x27;s sad to see the number of proposals on each of these. Who are these &quot;programmers&quot; who can code an app but are incapable of submitting it to an app store and keep any proceeds themselves?

This should come as 0 surprise, as people try to take advantage of the &quot;void&quot; created by the developer&#x27;s announcement that the game will be removed.<p>That being said, there are still requests for older games such as:<p>- candy crush: <a href="https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/q-candy%20crush" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elance.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;q-candy%20crush</a><p>- temple run: <a href="https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/q-temple%20run" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elance.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;q-temple%20run</a>

Ahh, now I see the point why Nguyen removed Flappy Birds from app store. The plan obviously was to sell the game (the real one, instead of bad copy) to all these guys on elance.

In related news, HN front page filled with open source FlappyBird clones.

I&#x27;m looking forward to a First-Person Flapper.<p>Or a Massively Multiplayer Online Bird-Flapping Game.

Playing devils advocate, how long would a clone take to build? You are recreating graphics and game mechanics.<p>Could this stuff be easily built using game salad or another drag and drop game Dev app?

Crap... saw this on there here:<p>&quot;Looking for someone to help with app rankings long term and also add lots of reviews to the app without getting caught. Please advise your methods and how we will not get caught. &quot;<p>Example below [obscured] &#x2F;blog&#x2F;flappy-birds-smoke-mirrors-scamming-app-store&#x2F;<p><a href="https://www.elance.com/j/apple-store-rankings-optimiser-reviews/52833925/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elance.com&#x2F;j&#x2F;apple-store-rankings-optimiser-revi...</a>

This is an interesting development.<p>Lesson for contract developers looking for work:<p>Pay attention to apps that gain hype, and build clones for people on e-lance.

Humanity is entertaining. I wrote the beginnings of the game[1] in a few hours Today. I should have sold it... I still can sell it!<p>[1] - <a href="https://github.com/joeblau/FlappyBlock" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joeblau&#x2F;FlappyBlock</a>

Great artists steal.

<a href="http://ellisonleao.github.io/clumsy-bird" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ellisonleao.github.io&#x2F;clumsy-bird</a> ★★★☆☆

It is real for someone make the app in 2 days for 5k in ios and android as this guy asks: <a href="https://www.elance.com/j/app-game-developed/52848809/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elance.com&#x2F;j&#x2F;app-game-developed&#x2F;52848809&#x2F;</a> (there are at least 11 guys that say that is possible)

It would be pretty interesting to be able to see a handful of projects go from start to finish in some easy to follow way. For these guys offering $149, how many end up with an app?<p><a href="https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/q-clone/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elance.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;q-clone&#x2F;</a>

To be honest flappy bird, is a clone. Karma in action. Also it&#x27;s such a simplistic game, that the easiness of &quot;cloning&quot; it attracts the copiers. Imagine if it was an innovative, highly technological app.... Much harder to clone.

Vultures.

How is it possible to make a game so fast for so little money? I am 2 weeks away from releasing my IOS game that has taken me 9 months (with life intrusions) and I know C++&#x2F;OpenGL, etc.

It&#x27;s sad to see how much &#x27;game reskinning&#x27; is going on.

If I were one of the people listed on this link, I&#x27;m not sure how I could look myself in the mirror without throwing up in my throat just a little.

What is the point of diverting so much talent, money and energy towards such an aimless pursuit? Entertainment has value, but only to a certain limit.

Games and IAP have destroyed innovation on mobile. :(

I&#x27;ll probably build a game that has the player enter the following number sequence 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 before a timer runs out.

Here comes the birds that can&#x27;t fly!

shameless plug here, but anyone that wants a Flappy Birds clone, please feel free to fork my project<p><a href="https://github.com/nicksoto/MarioLand" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nicksoto&#x2F;MarioLand</a><p>save yourself a few thousand dollars. just switch the avatar and you got yourself flappy birds...

It is possible to create one game and then sell it 10x times with different name&#x2F;images.

I&#x27;m just going to leave this here: www.dogetek.co&#x2F;game&#x2F;‎

Write this once and sell it to all those people. Shovelware the cloners

A Flappy Narayan (cat) would be cool

Just as an aside about Flappy Bird, pulling in Bitcoin given it&#x27;s another hot topic -- on Android he used the AndEngine project (<a href="http://www.andengine.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.andengine.org&#x2F;</a>). It&#x27;s interesting to see that the project has received absolutely no donations&#x2F;tips at all.