Tag: 2048

2048 is the #1 game on Google Play and the App Store, and that's a damned travesty.Our story starts a little over seven weeks ago. Sirvo LLC, better known as Greg Wohlwend and Asher Vollmer, released their second mobile game collaboration: Threes!. It was a great little puzzle game that had the perfect mix of addictive and charming that can help a game shoot to the top of the App Store. And it did. Seemingly within hours, this indie darling jumped to the #1 spot - and not just any #1 spot, but the #1 spot on the paid games list.Rumors of paid mobile gaming's death, it would seem, were greatly exaggerated.Or at least they would have been if it weren't for 2048.A UI designer and web developer, Gabriele Cirulli "created" 2048 in the span of a weekend. You may have noticed my use of quotation marks there. That's because, while he no doubt programmed the game and did the art, the creative process - aka developing an original idea and making it work - lays at the feet of Team Sirvo.Yes indeed: 2048 is a clone of Threes.