Live your dream creating mobile games for a living

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/09/26/live-your-dream-creating-mobil.html

wasting time making shitty tap the screen time wasting clones of 99% of what is already out there is a dream?
you probably won’t even get $34 in earnings either so not a good investment.

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I worked as a game developer for a couple of decades, and creating mobile games has never sounded the least bit interesting to me.

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Not my dream.

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Beat me to it.

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But I don’t want to make mobile games, I want to turn people into dinosaurs I want to make realistic tabletop games which I can play with my disabilities.

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That’s tomorrow’s Daily Deal, I’m sure.

After all, they’re in touch with the readership, and giving the people what they want, right?

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  1. Find established and popular Flash game

  2. Make minor changes to the name and graphics

  3. Insert ridiculous time/resource limitations with massively expensive options to remove them

  4. ??

  5. Profit!

(?? = sell soul to Satan)

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Flappy bird?

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My dream is to create a hedgehog-scale model of Tokyo and a remote controlled Mecha-Hedgezilla that can rampage through the city so I can bring in my hedgehog (as Hedgezilla) to save Tokyo, then capture it all on film. Will making mobile games help with this? If not, what will?

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Live your dream creating mobile games for a living

Or - as I like to call it - the joys of homelessness!

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Can my disabilities play too?

Seriously, though, I am a board game geek from way back. I love that stuff.

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Robotics, electronics, machining, urban planning, model making, stage lighting, and camera work.

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Assuming dinosaurs don’t get cancer, problem solved

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Yeah if you want no cancer I may have to turn you into one of these.

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Humans are arguably weirder looking.

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My dream is the mobile gaming market imploding and clearing away the scumbag business practices of F2P games.

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Only if I get a silver jumpsuit - with pockets.

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Deal.

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