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So uhhh, now that he's out of the game can I make yet another SFCave clone and start making $50k/day then?

It's funny because I made an SFCave clone for the Xbox Indie marketplace back in 2009 when it looked like that store might not be totally awful. My girlfriend was playing Flappy Bird and I told her that it makes $50,000 a day and she said "Didn't you make a game like this already?"

Ah if only I had felt compelled to remake it for iPhones.

Good ole' sfcave. I've been playing that game since the palm pilot days. I remember upgrading my to a newer palm pilot and finding out that the game wasn't actually running full speed on my old greyscale palm. The android version is still fun.

Hah, yeah, I'm not sure if the game was timed properly or if it just ran as fast as your device could draw it.

Fucking loved that game. Android port is pretty good, but just not the same for some reason. Not as fast perhaps. Flappy Bird made me glad to see someone could do something nice with its formula still.

SFCave is all mined out. The next big thing is obviously Gorillas.

And here I was going to pile on with Scorched Earth until I looked up Gorillas...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game

Maybe the market was just oblivious in the early 90s for not putting cute animals on top of all of these tropes sooner.

How long until we see roguelikes starring cats? RTSs where you draft little fuzzy lions and bears?

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