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Re:Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game by bagels on Thursday March 27, 2014 @10:52PM (#7485046)
How did it get cloned before it was on the app store?
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Re:Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game by MBCook on Thursday March 27, 2014 @11:04PM (#7485086)
I went to look it up and saw I was missing a part of the story. They first released the game as a flash mini-game called Radical Fishing. The whole strange story is here:

http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/5/3461458/cloning-case-files-...

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Re:Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game by pawelkomarnicki on Friday March 28, 2014 @05:07AM (#7486039)
That was a lesson on how NOT to launch idea you want to monetise — why anybody would want to pay fro something they have already for free? :)
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Re:Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game by MBCook on Friday March 28, 2014 @04:39PM (#7489835)
They may not have realized how successful a concept it was until they had released the flash version.
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