Ball Bliss - (New arcade game with balls)
WhitePanther
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WhitePanther
Member Posts: 72
Removing the post due to negative feedbacks
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You basically copied everything from the original game whats the point
Free to play : 3
Looks great! will check it out
Thank you
Also check out the original to give the guy credit for working so hard
http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/92859/rainbow-infinity-released-ios
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That's ... interesting.
I'm not angry or anything, I just don't get the point of this. Why would you invest time in making such a terrible clone of my game instead of doing something productive with your time? You've basically stolen my game, made it look and feel terrible and slapped ads on it - to earn a few bucks with something you've invested neither brain nor heart in. I think that's pitiful - nothing else.
100% agree.
What's also depressing for developers is the speed at which your IP can be stolen, cloned and sold by someone else as their own work.
It was less than a week (in fact 3 days) between your release of Rainbow Infinity and your work being cloned and sold under someone else's name.
Please dont feel bad, i did it because your one was only at ios store and paid. Also i am working on something inside it which will make a difference between it and rainbow infinity. Update will be within few days.
Wow.
I don't know how you can even justify your actions , this is unethical. You even dare to post this on GS forums right after the release of the original game. Even if it doesn't make the original developer angry it would still make us developers feel insecure on showing our work in Gamesalad forums, cause we have members like you that don't mind stealing a game. Paid or free version you still dont copy a game and release it this way. Its okay to be inspired by a game and take ideas from them , but not to copy the whole mechanic + graphics and make a terrible clone. This just earns you bad reputation + bad rating.
Cool game!
Translation:
I noticed a couple of days after you'd released your app that you hadn't as yet uploaded an Android version to either Amazon or Google Play, so seeing an opportunity to make some money for myself by stealing your hard work I quickly cloned your game and uploaded it as my own work before you had the chance to do so yourself.
Yep, I also find that bizarre, not only stealing someone else's work but then promoting it on the same forum it was stolen from ! He may as well have posted it in Hoodloc's orginal thread !
Absolutely, this is the sole reason I've avoided work-in-progress threads, although it would be great to get feedback and encouragement on the projects you are working on, you have to balance that with the very real threat that there are people out there who will steal months of hard work from you without a thought.
If Hoodloc's work can be copied and sold by someone else as their own work just three days after its release, then there's every possibility that with a work-in-progress thread - going on for a few weeks or months - your work can be copied and uploaded before you manage to upload it yourself (this happened with Ridiculous Fishing, it was ripped off and uploaded before RF managed to get their orginal out to the app stores).
I'd say there were grounds for this thread being removed, it's promoting the theft of a fellow GS user's work, but maybe we need threads like this to remind us of the risks involved in sharing work.
If I was Hoodloc I'd issue a DCMA.
Before making the game i contacted one of the admin asking if it violates any policy. And it does not. I only copied the idea/concept. The artworks and materials are mine.
Looking into it right now.
What 'policy' ? GameSalad's terms of service have nothing to do with IP law, if someone wants to sue you for copyright infringement it would have nothing to do with GameSalad or any company policies they might have.
Can you remember which admin you spoke to, and how the question was phrased ?
I'd say Hoodloc has good grounds to issue a DCMA, especially given the timing of his release and your copy as well your admission to having copied his work, I'm sure most reasonable people will see you are attempting cash in on his hard work.
You didn't use his circles, you drew your own circles ? You didn't use his pointy bars, you drew your own identical pointy bars ?
I'd include screenshots of his admission of having copied your work, and of the thread appearing in the same forum as yours within just a few days, it'll all help put the claim in context
You should also remove the game from any store you uploaded it to.
Sometimes our moral compass is effected by the coins in one pocket.