Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games
Clever idea. I&#x27;m curious why you decided to allow games with DLC though. That&#x27;s technically an In-App Purchase. I get it&#x27;s not a Consumable IAP, but it&#x27;s still IAP.<p>Also you can probably add just about any modern (i.e. non-Hasbro) board game conversion to this list. Almost all of them charge a fee up front and won&#x27;t have anything more than some DLC for their expansions. Like Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, Through the Ages, etc.<p>I&#x27;m actually working on a mobile game in my spare time right now, and while I normally like to charge money for them I thought I&#x27;d try the IAP route this time, but I wasn&#x27;t planning on making it anywhere near as obnoxious as most IAP games.<p>Ads you can pay a few bucks to remove, then a couple of consumables that are optional and you can earn during a game anyway if you&#x27;re lucky, but can buy more if you want (it&#x27;s a push your luck game, so luck is part of the design), that&#x27;s about it.<p>I&#x27;m not looking to make all of the money in the world like these big companies are, just hopefully enough to make some side income and maybe eventually switch to making games full time.<p>I tried playing a Jeopardy game recently, and it just bombards you with screens of crap constantly. Here&#x27;s a screen where you can pay to add an item for a round! Use your items to help you answer a question slightly easier! Oh you won! Let&#x27;s update your win streak! (or Oh no! you lost, you&#x27;re about to go to 0 on your win streak, but if you pay, you can keep it up, and you&#x27;ll get a reward if you keep it going enough!), then here&#x27;s some special event that earns you some random nonsense for getting a question right! here&#x27;s a level up screen! here&#x27;s a screen that pesters you about something else (I don&#x27;t know, I lost track after awhile). Just on and on, and in your face. I can&#x27;t believe people will spend money for these stupid win streaks and whatnot.<p>So yeah, I&#x27;m hoping mine doesn&#x27;t come across as obnoxious (obviously it wouldn&#x27;t qualify for the No-Bullshit list, though). And if it doesn&#x27;t do well, at least it helped me get back in the swing of making mobile games again (it&#x27;s been like 6 years).<p>Good luck with your website, it looks nice! If you can add a few extra filters to it, you might have better discoverability than the Apple App Store, which has been too &quot;Winner-Take-All because we refuse to highlight more than a handful of games or give proper filtering options&quot; for forever.