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by scrollaway 1405 days ago
Woah, Torn as in Torn City?

One of my first freelance jobs was for that game, fixing some bug or other in the website. This must have been 15 years ago ish?

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Yeah most people just call it Torn right now, but yeah the game is still going fairly strong. They released a mobile app which helped drive some more popularity to the game again. The mobile app is really just an in-app browser wrapper for the mobile version of their site, but it helped get them some extra visibility for the game via the app stores. Especially with how popular idle style games are right now on the app stores, Torn kinda fits in well with them.

It's pretty neat how long this game has been going for and how they still keep hiring more devs to work on the site! I'm sure if you checked out the game now it would look a bit different from when you worked on it 15 years ago! Though I'm sure some elements would still be a bit similar.