Hindsight for a castratrophic news for http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786514 , there’s still hope for indie game maker to emerge from development hell, but given with luck, and patience, really one devoted team behind you.
1. As a fellow game developer that published a game (and didn’t hit the jackpot). (We’re a small startup at the time launching our little game and it didn’t go well at all after a 2 hard-working year, about the same time when Glitch launched).
2. It’s the Flickr’s founding dream to create this, and if you read the backstory of Flickr, you’ll notice that the founder initially wanted to create this startup before Flickr, but found out it is not feasbible, and took out a main component from the game (sharing photo) and built Flickr. And so now, the founder has sold her company to Yahoo!, and decided to use every penny to make her dream come true, and it appears reality hits where it hurts the most, and the game didn’t fly. I tried the game, it’s really polished, but it just didn’t have the target market pool as big as Zynga in Facebook. Really sad its under-appreciated.
3. There is an unseen s*load amount of hard work placed in Glitch, but it just all went boom to their face.
What is the problem? Does this mean hard work != successful? Or did they not have enough marketing budget to make Glitch fly?