Games are art. As such, ours is an industry full of bright, creative people. Well, mostly. There is, however, a Dark Side to the proceedings. Call it copycatting. Call it plagiarism. Call it blatant theft. Top hats and long, curly mustaches may or may not have been involved, but one thing’s for sure: these...
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Mark Pincus, chief executive of social gaming giant Zynga, denied that Zynga copied a rival’s Bingo game on Facebook. Instead, he said in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat that the accuser in this case borrowed from Zynga. On Sunday, Buffalo Studios in Santa Monica, Calif., alleged that the upcoming Zynga Bingo was a copy...
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Those are Zynga CEO Mark Pincus’s words to those that accuse the FarmVille creator of copying its game ideas, namely Tiny Tower creator NimbleBit and Buffalo Studios, the team behind Bingo Blitz. In an interview with VentureBeat, the Zynga head went into great detail regarding the recent allegations made against the company over Dream...
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“You should be careful not to throw stones when you live in glass towers,” Zynga head Mark Pincus said in a recent VentureBeat interview, firing back at recent criticisms of his company’s games for being copycat versions of already released games. His cheeky comment is specifically targeted at indie dev NimbleBit, creator of Tiny...
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Although it was hardly the first time it had been accused of copying an existing game, accusations that Zynga had cribbed the design of Tiny Tower struck a more sensitive nerve than usual. Maybe that’s because Tiny Tower is more beloved and well-known than, say, a game like Farm Town, which seems to have...
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Though Zynga has been a wildly successful publisher and developer of mobile and web-based apps in the past, they have recently come under fire for releasing titles that bare a striking resemblance to other smaller games. Most recently Zynga was taken to task by Tiny Tower developer Nimblebit for the similarities between Tiny Tower...
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Bingo Blitz developer accuses Zynga of copying by Mike Rose 14 comments <!– –> January 30, 2012 ... more at article source
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0 Zynga has been blasted, not for just one, but two of its games that are available on both mobile and Facebook. The first game to be called a copy is Dream Heights, for which, developer Nimblebit made a collection of images showing the ways in which Zynga’s version is similar to their...
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Nimblebit drew some blood last week when the developer of Tiny Tower cast a stone at Zynga, via an infographic, for copying Tiny Tower in an upcoming mobile game called Dream Heights. Buffalo Studios is using the same tactic tonight as it calls out Zynga Bingo for being a copycat of Buffalo’s popular Facebook...
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