[MrZongle2]

If the author of this article were "Bob Smith", the HN readership reaction would be tepid at worst. Instead, everybody has brought political baggage to this discussion.

History will fairly judge Rumsfeld long after he (and most of us) are dead, and not on his app-creation career. That his new venture into a technical field can't be objectively judged (without involving his unrelated past) on a technical site is sad.

[bmelton]

Agreed. I skipped over the author portion of the header because I was fixated on how good the game looked visually.

Reading through the description, I had intended to come back to HN and comment on how rich and contextual the game's introduction was. That Medium post was a story, with actual history and soul, and I was amazed by it from start to finish.

I was busy marveling at how great that introduction was, and wondered whether or not it was a generational thing, that we get 140-character introductions for most products today... Then I came here, scanned to see if there was a comment enough like the one I intended that I didn't need to post, and found the comments you mentioned.

So, to me, it looks like a great game, and without actually getting the app, the execution looks solid as well. It sounds like there was quite a bit of iteration on the project, and if he paid a team to build it, I don't know if it will reach profitability ever, but kudos to the man who, at 84, decides that there must be an app badly enough that he takes it upon himself to see it being built... whomever he happens to be.

[nightcracker]

The article itself is also slathered with political paint and narrative. IMO, if you consider the comments to this article off-topic, I believe the article itself is as well.