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The Flappy Bird Effect: When a simple game rises in popularity leading other hackers to build an AI and multiplayer versions of it leading to its own demise.

We should expect Gabriele Cirulli to be in Rollingstone next. :p

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I'm convinced that there's a whole new ecosystem of hackers that will exist solely to clone simple games which rise in popularity.

That actually sounds promising--like a book club for gameplay mechanics. We could start by working through http://www.squidi.net/three/ together.

Like Tetris, just add some demise?

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