In Real Life

On Anti-Socially Loving Social Games

I think I am a social game developer’s worst nightmare. It’s not that I don’t enjoy social platform games — rather, I do. I enjoy the hell out of them. Barely a day goes by without me playing a round or 10 of Bejeweled Blitz, and a quick afternoon level in Bubble Island gives me fond memories of hours spent procrastinating through Snood back in university.


February 4, 2012
News

A Defense Of Video Game Cloning

There have been a lot of stories about game-cloning flying around lately, from Zynga’s cloning of Nimblebit’s popular iOS game Tiny Tower to Spry Fox’s lawsuit against 6waves for cloning Triple Town.


January 31, 2012
Mobile

Triple Town Developers Sue Rivals Over Facebook, iOS Game-Cloning

Spry Fox, the game studio behind the Facebook game Triple Town, has filed suit against 6Waves LOLAPPS for their iOS game Yeti Town, describing it as a “blatant copy” of Triple Town.