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Re:Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game by vacri on Thursday March 27, 2014 @10:09PM (#7484880)
Whether or not it's the company your friend is at, King games do the same thing (the Candy Crush stuff). All of the games of theirs I've seen are tweaks of puzzler games that are 20 years old. Throw on lots of shiny graphics and transitions, tweak the edges of the gameplay, and viola! New market killer.
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Re:Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game by livepreview on Thursday March 27, 2014 @11:26PM (#7485169)
No offense, but it seems to me that researching and subsequently ripping off 20 year-old games is somewhat different than ripping off days-old games already designed for the same interface.
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Re:Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game by vacri on Thursday March 27, 2014 @11:42PM (#7485236)
A fair point in terms of ethics. I guess I was talking about originality.
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Re:Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game by hnal943 on Friday March 28, 2014 @10:17AM (#7487365)
I think the true originality is pretty hard to come by. There's nothing new under the sun.
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Re:Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game by gress on Friday March 28, 2014 @04:32PM (#7489785)
Unless, like the creators of Threes, you spend months on painstaking design.
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