Gamifying the News
summary
Floppy Candidate is a Flappy Bird–style mobile game built in about two months using SpriteKit and Swift, with quiz lifelines, collectible coins, power-ups and leaderboards. The app racks up 33,000+ downloads and roughly 2.5M games played, averages seven-minute sessions and an average score of 29, and ships as a low‑priority experiment rather than a revenue driver while the newsroom uses it to test new iOS frameworks and product ideas.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:01Experimentation at the Post
- 10:50From canceled projects to Flappy Bird clone
- 21:20Game mechanics in Floppy Candidate
- 33:16Marketing and player behavior
- 38:54Other new experiences
- 41:27Tech stack and open source
- 43:56Q&A
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