Re:“1024,” “2048″ And Other Copies Of Popular Paid Game “Thr...
by Jare on Monday March 24, 2014 @08:23PM
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I believe PiouPiou (the app and the website they put up) was released in February 2014 and their story of being ripped off by Flappy Bird is just a shameless lie for people who don't check dates.
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Re:“1024,” “2048″ And Other Copies Of Popular Paid Game “Thr...
by bertil on Monday March 24, 2014 @09:06PM
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I’ve worked for one of the developers of Piou-Piou. The game was released in 2010, didn’t meet much success at the time, and like a handful of games from the same group was discontinued. The recent video was published after heated discussion on how Flappy Bird ripped them off (during which I wrote to them it was unlikely -- not sure they agree, to this day).
They also made a handful of games that were successful, several that went through very public controversy about being copied from someone else; several that have been stolen quite blatantly (with the original developers nicknames in the function calls). That cycle hasn't stopped there: reverse-engineered a game for cheap, etc. I won’t give details because I don’t like talking to lawyers, but all was as transparent as those things can be.
I’ll say here what I said then: if someone steals from you, there's always a slight difference that could be an improvement, take that; otherwise, every game has its own history. Learn and let it be.
Re:“1024,” “2048″ And Other Copies Of Popular Paid Game “Thr...
by georgemcbay on Monday March 24, 2014 @08:37PM
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If that's true they also either hacked YouTube or created a time machine so they could go back to 2010 and post this:
Re:“1024,” “2048″ And Other Copies Of Popular Paid Game “Thr...
by oneeyedpigeon on Monday March 24, 2014 @09:29PM
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I've lost count of the number of different titles that Flappy Bird is supposedly a rip-off of.