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#LD48 game already cloned @_@

TuismTuism
edited in General
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/06/05/ballkeeper-ripoff-now-available-for-android-and-ios/

Ballkeeper, a game made in this year's LD48, was pretty shamelessly cloned already on iOS AND Android, AND they didn't even bother to change the name, or the marketing text.

Wow that's just bullcrap.

What can be done? Throwing a random idea out:

The original creator could make a better game and publish it unabashedly as "Clone of Ballkeeper" or something to that effect. Make it damn obvious it's a clone.

Good idea, bad idea?

Comments

  • edg3edg3
    Bad idea unfortunately, the recent changes to Stores across the board (iOS, Android, Windows, etc) have added specific clauses for preventing cloning. You would have to fight to prove that the IP is originally yours or they will not let you onto the store to begin with, and who knows what the repercussions would be from "just submitting" to the stores: losing your development account? flagged as a "spam" developer? I don't like the idea of being in any of the incorrect boxes.

    Will link to the places I read these things as soon as I find them.
  • dislekciadislekcia
    File claims of copyright infringement with the stores. Write about it. Make noise.

    If they copied everything, including the name, there's a much stronger case to get this pulled at the very least.
    Thanked by 1dammit
  • watsonwatson
    Thats really sad ,the markets need to take a more responsible stance , when dealing with clones , I guess they make their money either way
  • SUGBOERIESUGBOERIE
    Saw this last night. Played the original and the clone. It's first game that is actually a clone, everything exactly the same. I couldn't believe it. How does someone not feel bad at all !?
  • TuismTuism
    SUGBOERIE said:
    Saw this last night. Played the original and the clone. It's first game that is actually a clone, everything exactly the same. I couldn't believe it. How does someone not feel bad at all !?
    Lol that one's easy, even if obviously a rhetorical question :)
  • CrocopedeCrocopede
    On the subject of cloning games. I am curious what is considered cloning. If you take a successful title, make it a bit different and push it out to the market, is it then still a clone?

    Where do you draw the line of what is a clone and what is not?

  • TuismTuism
    Everyone will have a different line. Asking where the line is is asking what people considered "moral" and "immoral". It's a vast and difficult space to define because it's largely personal.

    If you cared about the line at all, you only have to ask yourself if you've made a clone.

    If you don't care about the line at all, nothing anyone says will make you think otherwise about the thing you've made being a clone.

    There's no hard and fast rule.

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