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Gabriele Cirulli and 2048
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- 0:00A 19-year-old built one of the most
- 0:01viral games of 2014 in a single weekend.
- 0:03[music]
- 0:04He refused to make a cent from it.
- 0:07>> [bell]
- 0:07>> Italy, March 2014.
- 0:10Gabriele [music] Cirulli wants to see if
- 0:11he can build a game from scratch.
- 0:14Slide the tiles. Two and two make four.
- 0:16Four and four make eight.
- 0:18Keep merging until you reach 2048.
- 0:19[music]
- 0:21He puts it online for free and publishes
- 0:24all of the code.
- 0:25In less than a week, 4 million people
- 0:27play it.
- 0:29Then the copies [music] arrive.
- 0:30The app stores fill with clones, many of
- 0:32them covered in ads.
- 0:34But his game was a remix, [music] too,
- 0:36of a game called 1024, itself inspired
- 0:39by Threes.
- 0:40So, he said no. [music]
- 0:42He did not want to make money from a
- 0:43concept he didn't invent.
- 0:45No ads, no app, no [music] purchases.
- 0:48Just the tiles, still sliding for anyone
- 0:51who wants [music] to play.
- 0:53Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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