thestoicjester

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by thestoicjester 9y ago
About 6 years ago, I posted an article I wrote about my experience on the app store[1] and somebody (now a good friend of mine) reached out and asked why I wasn't living in silicon valley. Long story short[2] I ended up moving to San
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by thestoicjester 11y ago
I was playing around with writing an app for the new Apple TV, and it was fun enough that I ended up putting a bit of polish on it and releasing it to the app store. It's a free game called Slingshot Superhero. It wasn't until th
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by thestoicjester 14y ago
I feel like we're past due for somebody to come in here and complain about there being too much meta-discussion of HN these days.
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by thestoicjester 14y ago
True. But the suburb I was living in was pretty close.
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by thestoicjester 14y ago
Yeah, absolutely there is a great tech scene in the TC area. I tried to paint MN and my former employer in as good of a light as I could while concurrently throwing them under the bus and using them as the bad guy in the story.
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by thestoicjester 14y ago
Hmmm, I don't think so. I did a pretty good job of avoiding... everyone during that period of my life. It's only in recent years that I've realized that there are better ways to operate than being a complete hermit-weirdo.
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by thestoicjester 14y ago
http://daemoniclabs.com/
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by thestoicjester 14y ago
Yeah, thanks for the heads up. Just set up CloudFlare, so hopefully the stress level will be going down.
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How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life(stoicjesterstudios.com)
290 points by thestoicjester 14y ago|91 comments
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Verizon, Redbox plan Netflix challenge(reuters.com)
1 points by thestoicjester 15y ago|0 comments
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
Tomorrow will be 11/12/11 again. Just like in 1911.
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
False dichotomy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
Neat. I'm pretty sure that text at the beginning is a reference to a similar easter egg from an old version of windows (95 maybe?).
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
That is the first thing I looked for, too. Whoever made the list must not watch enough Seinfeld[1]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAlinvw2Rb0
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's not stupid.
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
"This and..."
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
Also, people traveling together won't be assigned to different boarding groups if their reservations are "linked" in the airline's system.
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
Good catch. Updated.
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
True... but I think it'd be hard to argue that I'm not a small fry in the App Store. But your point is well taken. I don't see EA writing blog posts like mine.
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
You're definitely not coming across as an asshole. I know a lot of assholes and I hardly ever see them mock-up screenshots for strangers. Very much appreciated. The screenshot is definitely food for thought. Btw, I feel like I should hav
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
Yeah, I definitely plan on follow-up posts with any changes that occur. As for engines, I used cocos2d for all of the 2d (imagine that) stuff like menus and the HUD. The 3d objects I made using blender, modified some code I found online[1]
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
I think the other common theme is that programmers don't think about marketing until we need to.
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
Wow. I really appreciate you going out of your way to help like that. That is awesome.
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
It's horrible to think back and remember that I went out of my way to go for a "gritty" look, way back before I was even considering thinking about the marketing angle. There's one lesson well learned. I'm definitely going to take this ad
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
Yeah, it's looking like a lot of people agree with you that the icon needs work. You've been contacted. I'm definitely not in love with it, but it's better than the other ideas I had. The problem I was having was trying to depict the in-g
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
Yeah, but don't let my results get you down. Just keep in mind that whatever you do, it seems like the App Store still involves a bit of luck.
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
Very interesting. I did release a 'lite' version with fewer levels, but I do have plans to put together an ad-supported 'free' version. I'll follow up with results when that all goes down.
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
I appreciate all of this. The purpose here was to take a quote-unquote negative experience and spin it into something hopefully helpful for other devs, and myself (hello, hn front page). The plan has definitely been in the back of my head f
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by thestoicjester 15y ago
Cool, thanks for the feedback. The menu buttons do have an invert effect when you tap them, but it might be too subtle. There's also audio feedback when you tap a button, but that doesn't help if you have your sound off.
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How (not) to sell your iOS app(stoicjesterstudios.com)
253 points by thestoicjester 15y ago|95 comments

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