Zynga boss Mark Pincus has responded to those pesky plagiarism accusations with a hearty ‘I know you are, but what am I?’ “You should be careful not to throw stones when you live in glass towers,” said Pincus, when asked about the ever-so-slightly-snarky open letter Zynga received from Tiny Tower developer, Nimblebit, last week....
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In a story that proves how fertile the mobile market can be for independent developers, Californian developer NimbleBit scored a huge hit in 2011 with Tiny Tower. Apple named it the Game of the Year in the United States and it was also a runner-up to that title in Europe and Australia. In our...
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Zynga, which has made its fortune on Farmville, has released an app in Canada (not on the American App Store yet) called Dream Heights, which bears much more than a passing resemblance to Tiny Tower, a terrific and very successful freemium game from NimbleBit (the brothers-run company that we’ve posted about a few times...
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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. Zynga’s new game Dream Heights isn’t a homage to NimbleBit’s game. It’s almost a...
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Three-person indie team NimbleBit is behind the wildly successful Tiny Tower, which will soon have a curiously near-identical competitor on the iOS marketplace. Casual game giant Zynga is set to release Dream Heights, a near identical replication of the hit tower-building sim. In response, NimbleBit released a passive aggressive infographic congratulating Zynga’s success and...
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The rise of the iOS App Store has returned power to the bedroom developer. No longer are shiny graphics and a big production values a necessity for a top-seller, all it takes is a good idea. Some ideas are so good in fact that others may wish to make your idea their own. Ian...
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NimbleBit co-founder Ian Marsh has revealed that the iPhone Game of the Year accolade awarded to its popular freemium title Tiny Tower at the end of 2011, equates to an extra 16,000 downloads daily. The free-to-play management sim now has more than a million daily active users, almost doubling from the 600,000 that it...
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NimbleBit co-founder Ian Marsh has revealed that the iPhone Game of the Year accolade awarded to its popular freemium title Tiny Tower at the end of 2011, equates to an extra 16,000 downloads daily. The free-to-play management sim now has more than a million daily active users, almost doubling from the 600,000 that it...
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The allure of building the perfect skyscraper is stronger than we initially thought. Tiny Tower developer Ian Marsh revealed via his Twitter account that the mobile darling currently has a million users stacking shops each day. And that figure doesn’t even take Android into consideration! Those million people are responsible for over ten million...
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