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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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