Game Dev Tycoon

[Dennis Hedlund]

This is the kind of thing that you find cute and amazing upon first glance.
But then you look deeper into it. The title is indeed crafted by a very small independent team (two brothers, was it?), but they basically plagiarized everything present within the title from something released in '97 and re-released in 2010. Yes, that would be Game Dev Story.

They then use the DRM that they made to call out pirates.
Or in other words, get free marketing from the press and people who are now aware of the game.
I would definitely applause them for that if the first paragraph I typed wasn't true. When you put the two together, they seem somewhat scummy.

I hope they find creative and fiscal success with their next title.
Until then, I'll just go back to playing my purchased copy of Game Dev Story and not pay attention to this.
Which is what most people should do rather than pirate it.

Totally agree, i read somewhere yesterday that the game was a copy of game dev story, so i bought it for my android device and played it for a while. And to my understanding this has to be copyright infringement. Tried to tell Total Biscuit about it to see if we could get someone with an audience and perhaps knowledge about copyright laws regarding games to comment on it. But he denied that the games are more or less identical. Don't know if i missed something, and if someone with more knowledge in this matter could explain it to me, i would be very grateful