#threes

[nightflava]

ｗａｌｋｉｎｇ  ｏｎ  ｃｌｏｕｄｓ

#aesthetic #purple aesthetic #lofi aesthetic #vaporwave #photography #sunset #clouds #nature #night sky #view #threes #retro #art #vhs #gif #glow #purple #summervibes #mood #love #night #vibes #nightflava

[dreamlessspring]

#photography #mine #nature #nature photography #original photographers #forest #close up #branches #threes #moss #dark vibes #dark forest #dark

[bubblesorbubbles]

Winter walk with empty mind

#winter #qualitytime #walk #snow #threes #wood #forest #no people #mood #monochrome

[lunasapphire]

Crows, but only do I see them in threes🙃 not sure if that is a sign, I’ve been looking into it, because for the past to weeks I’ve been seeing crows in groups of threes.

#witchblr #witch #witchcraft #crows #counting crows #crow #birds #witch community #baby witch #magic #magick #nature #threes #3 #333 #angel numbers #photography #nature photos #bird photography #iphone #iphone photography

[fioras-resolve]

hey, let's talk about this blog post from 2014. this is an open letter from the creators of number-merging mobile game Threes, in response to various imitators like 2048. it's a fascinating case study in the midst of recent discussions of plagiarism.

so, look. Threes and 2048 are both mobile games that you can play right now, for free. i highly encourage that you play both of them before reading further. i want you to see how different these games feel to play.

okay, so. this blog post from Asher Vollmer and Greg Wohlwend is interesting to look back on, but it's worth remembering the context it was made in. the mobile gaming scene is absolutely awash with copycats and imitators, and has been for over a decade. mobile games like this are typically pretty simple and thus incredibly easy to copy. if you have a good idea for a mobile game, you are almost immediately going to get people looking to cash in on your idea. this has been cited by former free-to-play dev Caryl Shaw as one of the reasons she left that industry. it's important to keep in mind that cheap imitators and cash-ins are absolutely an issue endemic to the platform.

that said, 2048 is not the same game as Threes. Vollmer complains that people tell him they like 2048 more, but it's not hard to see why they do. it's faster-paced, easier to understand, and more immediately gratifying. Threes takes a bit of practice to really understand what it's doing. its advantages over 2048, e.g. granular control, more predictable rng, more depth long-term, are more relevant to mid- or high-level play. also, this might seem minor, but 2048 actually comes with an objective, it's right there in the title. it means that players have a goal to reach for beyond just a high score. even if you think 2048 is a worse game that Threes, they're clearly different games, and it's not hard to see why 2048 became memetic in a way that Threes didn't.

the letter acknowledges this. it doesn't call 2048 a knock-off, but instead a rip-off, and points out rightly that Threes didn't get the time to grow an audience or the credit for doing it first. i am intensely sympathetic to this, and you should be too. as an indie gamedev even outside of mobile, i worry that my good ideas might be stolen for a profit. even though i'm confident in my abilities as a developer, i'm less confident in my ability to predict the market, and the fear of plagiarism doesn't help.

but i'm not gonna lie, Vollmer and Wohlwend's letter here comes off as salty and antagonistic toward a fellow game developer. it simply wasn't enough to say that it's bad that they didn't get the credit they deserve, they also had to call 2048 a "broken game." to be clear! it has been almost a decade since both games came out! and i still go back to 2048! i decided to go back to Threes recently and give it a proper shot, and while yeah, it's better than i remember it, 2048 is not that much worse of an experience! it's like Minesweeper for me, one of those games i go back to when i need something to do. and like Minesweeper, it's fairly barebones as a game, but that doesn't really stop me from loving it.

but what really sticks out to me about the letter is actually this line that i haven't been able to get out of my head:

We know Threes is a better game, we spent over a year on it.

this has bothered me for a while. not just because it's a wrongheaded way of thinking about quality, (plenty of AAA games that took more than a year suck) but because it's a common one. it's a kind of romanticization of work that treats the process as more important than the result. i understand this mindset, it's one that a lot of creators adopt, including me, because we love the work that we do. but it just doesn't always shake out that way. sometimes the work you do doesn't coalesce, and sometimes a great idea can be developed over a weekend. my current gamedev project which you can help playtest on my discord is a less ambitious project than ones i've taken on in the past, but also one i'm more confident i can pull off. it's often less important how much time you spend, than how you spend it and why.

*sigh*

Asher, Greg. if you are for some reason reading this, i do respect y'all as gamedevs. i think you did great on Threes, and also Puzzlejuice, and a lot of other games you've worked on separately. you called out an important issue in mobile gamedev, and one that's still with us today. you made an good, important game on a platform that is now dominated by predatory monetization and junk food entertainment. Threes represented a better world for mobile, and your post pushed back against what mobile had become.

but 2048 is fine.

#game design #gamedev #threes #2048 game

[popculturetarot]

The usual symbol for the Three of Swords is a love triangle (and we’re not going to buck that trend) but it really is a card of sorrow of all kinds.  Maybe not the emotional crisis of the Nine of Swords, but the kind that may not amount to a hill of beans but it still hurts.

#tarot #three of swords #Casablanca #humphrey bogart #ingrid bergman #threes #swords #minor arcana

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Three threes!

Treehouse Gardens

#succulent #succulents #succulent blog #threes #plant blog #plant photography #plants #garden #jellybeans #crassula

[lloreleya]

Good morning!

Сегодня у нас дождь и ужасный ветер, и я удовольствием сижу дома) Так что вместо красочных осенних фоточек покажу вам деревья. Вчера, пока ждала Алису, присмотрелась к ним: тут два клёна и каштан. Они такие разные! И такие интересные 😻

#мой блог #мой tumblr #photography #мой дневник #elly photos #nature #threes #texture

[finallyclean1315]

🚨 We’ve got another 3!!!! 🚨

Taylor Nation posted today on the THIRD anniversary of the release of The Man music video. Guys we have to be getting Speak Now TV on Friday right??? 😭 Im still hoping she’ll do a double release of Speak Now and 1989 (like we all theorized last year with her talks about Shania Twain who famously released a double country/pop album). There’s been a bunch of threes but these are the main ones I can remember on top of todays TN post!

1. Obviously Speak Now is Taylor’s 3rd album.

2. She’s 33 years old! (3/3 = March 3rd)

3. In her birthday Instagram post she held up her fingers in two 3’s! 3/3 for March 3rd!

4. On her Lavender Haze music video post she made sure to point out that it was the first video she wrote out of the THREE that have been released.

5. Taylor Nations post today marking the THIRD anniversary of The Man music video release! Also saying Karma is real in reference to her taking back one (or two???) of her albums!

@taylornation @taylorswift

#love you taylor #taylor swift #taylurking #March third #threes #the man #midnights #speak now tv

[nightflava]

ｔａｋｅ  ｍｅ  ｔｏ  ｔｈｅ  ｈｏｒｉｚｏｎ

#aesthetic #purple #purple aesthetic #vaporwave #lofi and chill #photography #threes #horizon #80s aethetic #night vibes #view #lofi #retro #vhs #art #latenight #summer vibes #love #night #glow #nightflava

[ex-wifed]

23.07.24: Past, Present Future

Past: 9 of Wands reversed - stubborness (also present

Present: Temperance - needing to be in moment and stop compartmentalizing myself and my life into boxes

Future: 3 of wands - this will give me peace

#pastpresentfuture #nines #threes #wands #majorarcana #tarotreading #temperance #nineofwands #threeofwands #tarot

[bizarrobrain]

"Escaped Goat" by Sweet Cobra - From "Threes" (2022)

#Sweet Cobra #Threes #Music #Post-Hardcore #Punk #Bandcamp

[butterfly94]

#sky #threes #moon #airplane #photography #nature

[fariha]

Hooded Linen Set, Wide Leg Pants, Two-piece Linen Set, Linen Set, Plus Size Clothing, Summer Linen Vest With Belt, Woman's Linen Set

#purelinen #linencloset #fabric #textile #linenskirt #naturalfabrics #linenfabric #linenlove #linenlover #linenclothing #sasydneydesignerdress #samontanamididress #celestialdress #samples #shopsamples #dresses #easy #linen #threes #sewing #sewinginspo #memadewardrobe #memadeeveryday #stylearc #patternfantastique #samplefairy #tribe #fabricsmelbourne #lovewhatwedo #theclothshopivanhoe

[jeremiah29-13]

#threes #nature

[popculturetarot]

“She rescues him right back.” The Three of Cups which sees a complete and success to some part of your life, usually symbolized by a marriage but it can apply to any emotional celebration that ends one era of your life and begins another.

#tarot #three of cups #Pretty Woman #richard gere #julia roberts #Gary Marshall #threes #cups #minor arcana