much larger horizontal vistas, though I’ve found limits on height) than Mojang’s Minecraft: Pocket Edition, which (as of this writing, consists of maps which are fully enclosed in a maximum 256×256 x150 block grid). In SurvivalCraft‘s case, it’s due to more sincere efforts by a single developer who wanted to emphasize the true fear of surviving in an unknown wilderness, the wilderness being much more vast (i.e. However, I’d like to talk about another (and stronger) instance of imitation, a “more legitimate” clone that expands on the original material in such a way that the “official” release (the original work) has been completely overshadowed, but not due to the imitation itself or the lower price. In other words, though the state of the App Store is a HUGE freaking mess right now, there are still instances in which the saying “imitation being the sincerest form of flattery” rings true, and such applies to Oceanhorn’s availability on the App Store. Looks and plays exactly like Nintendo’s Zelda: the Wind Waker, but for a four-year iOS development effort it’s still a good game and fills a mobile niche. Yes the mechanics imitate Nintendo’s console game, but the intent (providing an experience accessible to a group of players that another party refuses to cater to) makes the imitation ethically sound, not to mention the four years of effort in developing and releasing Oceanhorn, even more so due to famed former Squaresoft music composers (Nobuo Uematsu and Kenji Ito ) lending their talents for the game’s soundtrack. A game like Cornfox and Bros./FDG Entertainment’s Oceanhorn for instance can be viewed as a blatant Wind Waker rip-off (the protagonist sails from island to island on a similarly-designed ship) however the developers publicly stated that they wanted to play a Zelda-like adventure on high-resolution mobile devices and assumed that others wanted that experience as well – an experience that everyone knows that Nintendo will never provide unless it’s on a next-generation Nintendo-developed mobile device. While a clone may also be classified as a rip-off, it depends on the nature or intent of the clone. Some are even blatant copies (nearly line-for-line of the game’s code) in an attempt to hurriedly lure customers away from legitimate products and finance talentless developers whose game are mere shells of official products. A rip-off is a blatant attempt to imitate an established franchise in the hopes of luring in a customer by it’s lower price and extra features, and then once the customer purchases the products, locks necessary gameplay features behind pay- or time-walls. Before I discuss Igor Kalicinski’s SurvivalCraft (an obvious clone of Mojang’s Minecraft), we first need to briefly note that there is a difference. Flappy Bird wasn’t the first game to be vastly copied, as there have been (and still are) Jetpack Joyride, Final Fantasy, Puzzle Quest, Angry Birds, Grand Theft Auto and Left 4 Dead clones (and rip-offs) all competing for attention along with the established official releases.Īt this point though, I want to make a distinction between mere “clones” and “rip-offs”. This can’t be more proven then the Flappy Bird craze (not worth linking to, because I’m sick of the whole ordeal) in which more than 700 apps imitating Flappy Bird flooded Google and Apple’s distribution services, so much that they started pulling out the ban-hammers and began rubber-stamping the denial process.
are mere cash-ins on the coattails of popular and more legitimate franchises. Usually I’m wary of clones, especially in the App Store – mainly because about 92% of them turn out to be rip-offs, i.e.
Seeing as how a friend of mine had recently caused me to get addicted to Minecraft ( posted about the Pocket Edition previously), I thought that I would post a short blurb and video regarding it’s biggest mobile competitor SurvivalCraft, a Minecraft clone which – ironically – is a lot better than the game it’s “cloning”.įacing the unknown from my old wooden base on the shoreline (SurvivalCraft). As I type this Spring Break 2014 will be over in approximately twelve hours, so after reading for my English literature class the next day and ensuring that all of my Financial Accounting coursework is complete I wanted to do something worthwhile to conclude the break. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening – hopefully this week finds everyone well. *NOTE: viewers might want to full-screen the video.
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