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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Zynga’s controversial new mobile game, Dream Heights, is now available for iOS devices. The tower sim gained notoriety well before launch as back in January, the announcement of Dream Heights kicked off another round of the “cloning vs. inspiration” discussion that seems endemic to the social and mobile development space. Zynga faced accusations of blatantly duplicating the very popular iOS game Tiny Tower.
Last week, while game developers were howling that Zynga — creators of FarmVille — were the makers of a game called Dream Heights that maybe ripped off another hit game, Zynga didn’t want to talk about it.
Earlier today, the makers of mobile gaming blockbuster Tiny Tower published the kind of open letter loved by video gaming’s instantly and constantly angry fuck-the-man constituency, not least because it can be disseminated by imgur. It alleged that Zynga, the popularly despised maker of Facebook McGames, stole Tiny Tower‘s idea and was reaping a dishonest profit from it.
Tiny Tower is one of the cutest and most successful iPhone games around. So, naturally, someone is shamelessly ripping it off. Only, the company doing the ripping off isn’t some shady Chinese or Russian company. It’s social gaming powerhouse Zynga.
