On: Physics Invader = Space Invader + Physics

[iamdave]

You completely miss the entire point of video games: fun.

[hhm → iamdave]

IMO, a video game that goes to the 1st place on Hacker News' front page has to be clever, not fun. Having this game make a very simple (and typical) use of physics doesn't make it terribly clever.

[iamdave → hhm]

If you want a "clever" (read: interesting; read again: intellectual; read once more: poignant) game, play Chess, or Stratego, or Risk. If you want a game that's not fun, well, I'd probably just say "lighten up".

[alex_c → iamdave]

The context isn't what games hhm wants to play, the context is what games (if any) hhm wants to see at the top of hacker news.

[hhm → alex_c]

Exactly. Also, if you want good games, I used to be a games developer so I could post cool & fun games, but that's not the point of hacker news.