Episode 210: Please Don't Clone This Podcast
Waypoint Radio
English - December 14, 2018 18:19 - 1 hour - 84.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsVideo Games Leisure Games video games video game culture movies television rewatch replay video game development Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The concept of game cloning is about as old as games themselves, but there's new, tricky territory to cover here in 2018. Inspired by a few tweets and a GI.biz article profiling Voodoo—the mobile publisher behind Hole.io, a game that sure takes "inspiration" from indie darling Donut County—we discussed the situation this week on Waypoint Radio. Join Patrick, Natalie, Rob, and Danielle as they look at the complications that separate genre and mechanical inspiration, the ethics of farming game ideas with a big checkbook, and the fear that this could have a chilling effect on the spirit of sharing and creativity in the indie space.
Discussed: Hole.io, Donut County, Threes, 2048.
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