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- 2h3px, on 07/12/2009, -8/+38The moral of this story is you can make a ***** game as long as you trick people into thinking it's a dynamic playing experience. The "living" the pygmies do is generally limited to *****, eating, and drowning. No building structures, no expansion, they don't even acknowledge eachother's petty existence.
- Tanktunker, on 07/12/2009, -1/+25I'm fairly sure real people's living is also limited to *****, eating and dying.
- fragMasterFlash, on 07/12/2009, -6/+29So its a knockoff of the Black & White games?
- LordVance, on 07/12/2009, -1/+20Exactly... is it a great game even by flash/iPhone standards? No. Is it worth a buck? Of course it is, we piss away a dollar on far less with regularity.
- xsecretfiles, on 07/12/2009, -5/+2399c app. FREE weekly updates...Why is everybody complaining about it?
- martage, on 07/12/2009, -8/+25Pocket God offers example of how to make a ***** iPhone game
- inactive, on 07/12/2009, -0/+16Basically, except its crappier and you can't do as much cool stuff.
- JonTheGoose, on 07/12/2009, -15/+29Pocket God sucks ass. I want my $0.99 back.
- inactive, on 07/12/2009, -6/+18commercial success, maybe. is it a good game? not at all.
- 2h3px, on 07/12/2009, -0/+10Which is exactly why I like my video game characters to do more.
- nyx210, on 07/13/2009, -0/+7I know some guy that whipped together an iPhone app that would make a fart sound every time someone pressed a button. He sold it for $0.99 and had over 20,000 downloads. People will buy any kind of stupid *****, just as long as its cheap.
- jonthebishop, on 07/12/2009, -1/+8I tried this game because it was so popular, after about 2 minutes of use I never launched it again. I really don't understand why people keep buying it, is there something to this game I am missing?
- Yarkz, on 07/13/2009, -0/+7It doesn't matter how much it costs, I would much rather buy a game that is actually good and underated than buy one where the developers have ***** of money for a ***** game. Unlike most people I actually use appulo.us what it is meant for, a try before you buy.
Also I didn't rip them off, it was more of a they ripped me off I don't see how it is possible could have ripped them off I mean wtf? - zaffir, on 07/12/2009, -1/+8Success on the iPhone is currently about marketing. Getting your app - even if it's mediocre - noticed among the unbelievable pile of absolute "OMG I can be rich making iPhone apps!11!@" shovelware is far more important than actually making something high quality. The top 10 list is crucial.
I haven't played the game, I can't comment on whether it's good or not. Frankly I don't think that's what this article is really about. In fact, it's not really about much. Two guys made a game that's making them really good money, further perpetuating the get-rich-quick furor surrounding the iPhone app store. - TDDebug, on 07/13/2009, -2/+7It might be 99 cents for the end user but it could be millions for the developer, surely millions they may not deserve.
- syphern, on 07/13/2009, -4/+9You can refund apps on Android, come to the dark side...
- Bootes, on 07/13/2009, -0/+4The most recent versions of Lemmings were made by Team 17 who just released Worms, their first game for the iPhone.
- Lynxpro, on 07/13/2009, -0/+3I think most people would prefer paying $0.99 for iPhone shovelware software than $19.99 (or more) for Wii shovelware sitting in the checkout isles at Fry's and Best Buy.
- TDDebug, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2Really, songs that cost 99 cents frequently give more, and certainly longer-lasting entertainment value than most of the apps on the app store that cost the same amount of money.
Where are the people supporting music piracy? Why are you being dugg down? - myskepticsight, on 07/13/2009, -2/+4I think Pocket God is funny. Only for a few minutes after each update, but the first night I got it my mom and I had a blast cracking up at everything while we figured it out. I think it was a decent dollar spent.
- zaffir, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2Oh absolutely. And that could easily be part of the reason that it's so difficult to stand out on the iPhone. You can sell a few thousand copies of a completely ***** game simply due to people trying it out for $0.99.
- inactive, on 07/14/2009, -0/+2Let's not forget the constant troll of fake user reviews for that game, all of whom decided to leave 1-star reviews for rival app Flight Control.
***** Pocket God. - jmptexas, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2I think a lot of these games gain success from the lemming mentality of people. people buy what's 'hot' in the itunes store, so what's 'hot' gets hotter and more people buy it simply because lots of people have bought it, no matter how lame it is.
- chazuk, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2But Lemmings has only been released recently on PS2, PSP and PS3. I highly doubt Lemmings will see daylight on the iPhone.
(To contradict myself though, there have been Java versions released for other phones so it may happen.) http://www.glu.com/global/pages/product.aspx?pr=Le ...
I would love a Lemmings iPhone release. - Lynxpro, on 07/13/2009, -0/+2
Speaking of Lemmings, has that title been released on the iPhone yet? I'd expect that Sony will sit on the title under the belief that keeping it off the iPhone will generate a new sale for the PSP [it is available on the PSP]. And I say this as a PSP/PS3 owner...
I think MIDI Maze/Faceball 2000 would sell well on the iPhone/iPod Touch. I wonder who owns the IP for that title these days. Same goes for Todd's Adventure in Slimeworld. - JonTheGoose, on 07/13/2009, -1/+2Not in the least.
- MattBD, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1You should see some of the Android apps - there's loads of quotes apps, like a Cartman quotes app. Android seems to be weaker for games, but very good for puerile novelty apps and has a lot of good utilities like Locale.
- Sinn3r, on 07/13/2009, -3/+4Yeah, ripping off these guys for 0.99c is so awesome of you.
- inactive, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1None of those apps being a spell checker or dictionary, however.
- aychseven, on 07/13/2009, -2/+3"idiot macophiles?" according to a survey done last year, only 25% of iphone users were also mac users. (source: http://rubiconconsulting.com/downloads/whitepapers ... )
sure there are a lot of idiots using iphones out there, but the majority of them are NOT mac people. - Lynxpro, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1
It may not be but Ninja Golf certainly belongs on it! And I mean a decent port of that Atari 7800 classic; not the Flash port that was done in jest. - cfuse, on 07/13/2009, -2/+2If you look at The Sims, arguably one of the most stupid and meaningless games in existence, you will see one of the most financially successful games ever. Clearly there is an audience (and a sizable one at that) for these kind of overblown tamagotchis.
- JafaRykos, on 07/13/2009, -4/+4What the hell do you expect for 99 cents? I still do not understand why people demand so much for such a low price point. I've had more fun with some of the 99 cent applications on the App Store than some PC games costing more than $50.
- Junior612, on 07/13/2009, -4/+4I like flicking those lil ***** into the volcano and watching it jizz lava everywhere all over the other lil *****. Who's God now, biatch?
- TDDebug, on 07/13/2009, -1/+1That's about the same price as a song on iTunes, idiot.
- Bootes, on 07/13/2009, -1/+1A tamagotchi app was released awhile ago http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ ...
- syphern, on 07/13/2009, -3/+3Port it to Android, damn you HTC with weak internal memory! Apps2sd rules, but the damn thing is not official!
- Lynxpro, on 07/13/2009, -4/+3Populous predates Black & White.
- michaelvincent, on 07/13/2009, -3/+2Jesus you ***** will complain about anything. I'm betting you have all spent way more than 99¢ on way stupider *****.
- fabio1, on 07/13/2009, -2/+1tamagochi
- Drealoth, on 07/13/2009, -2/+1My friend and I are developing a game for the BlackBerry. We realized we are not nearly cool enough to write iPhone games, so we thought we'd go with the working man's iPhone instead. Anyway, this is the stuff that drives us. For me, part of the whole Indie Experience is making something with your own two hands, and (hopefully) seeing the fruits of your labours, so I have infinite respect for people who manage to pull it off. I'd be happy to make even just $100 (for beer and pizza, naturally). We did the same thing as these guys, working evenings and weekends, mostly to test our might. The Blackberry API is a dark and scary place, so test our might we did.
(if you are interested, so as not to spam, we're the fourth or fifth link when searching for 'blackberry tower defense' on Google. Addictive!) - darkcthulhu, on 07/13/2009, -2/+1Really, it isn't worth your 1$? I thought it was.
- visormiser, on 07/14/2009, -1/+0few games amuse me and shoo away boredom the way this one does. i have yet to find another iphone app that makes me laugh out loud as consistently as this one does. EPIC WIN!
- sidianmsjones, on 07/13/2009, -4/+2It needs way more simulation (individual pygmy behaviors, hundreds of outcomes for diff situations) and it needs to record some sort of stats for the pygmys like happiness, hunger, etc, so you are compelled to interact with them.
As it is it's a complete novelty that entertains for about 3 minutes with no replayability. Seriously, they should just copy and expand on the old Tomagatchi(sp?) idea. Or Tomagatchi should just make their own app. - hongkongjapie, on 07/13/2009, -3/+1Wow, guess a lot of you are jealous or something, let those 2 guys have their success, if you don't like pocket god, don't buy it. It's a simple gimmicky thing, not really a game but good for a few fun moments. It only costs 0.99$ and if you're afraid of spending it on *****, do your research before you buy it, but don't be a crybaby that you want your dollar back, get a life, make a better game for the iphone, android or the zune platform, whatever rocks your boat.
See you on the bottom of the digg well. - kashem, on 07/12/2009, -8/+5I don't care for the game at all, but the only reason it's still on the phone is that the kids absolutely love it.
- BrownieMix, on 07/12/2009, -6/+1heheheh
- BigRed24, on 07/12/2009, -22/+17Even though its pointless and not fun at all.
- Yarkz, on 07/12/2009, -14/+9I honestly did not like this at all in fact I would have to say it is in my bottom 10 apps ever, and one of the reasons I jailbroke my ipod so I wouldn't have to pay for ***** apps that I would never use.
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