Angry Birds Catapulted Into Board Gaming

[Danpascooch]

Ugh, that game leaves a bad taste in my mouth considering it was totally stolen from a small flash game that never took off.

What's the game?

Second if only every knock off was that good.

Third it was their 20th attempt at a game or something like that so I'd cut them a little slack .

http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle

It's like, EXACTLY the same thing, except I actually like Crush the Castle better.

Actually, now that I look at it.....CtC has over 20 million plays, maybe it WASN'T that small, kinda increases the chance it was stolen from that though

Thanks for the link .

I'd just be cautious of the assumption that similarity entails theft.

Otherwise we need to figure out who CtC stole it from since it would be established that the only way you could create this concept in it's entirety is to steal it from another source .

Don't get me wrong, you could be right, just saying that it's quite a leap to assume that two entities can't come to the same conclusion without meeting one another. It's happened many times in ancient astronomy (a time when stealing the ideas of someone thousands of miles away was quite a feat).

I don't know....I feel pretty safe in the assumption.

It's not like I think they stole their source code or anything, but I think it was probably something like "Wow, we should make something like this for the AppStore, I bet it would do well!"

 

[chris11246]

Ugh, that game leaves a bad taste in my mouth considering it was totally stolen from a small flash game that never took off.

What's the game?

Second if only every knock off was that good.

Third it was their 20th attempt at a game or something like that so I'd cut them a little slack .

http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle

It's like, EXACTLY the same thing, except I actually like Crush the Castle better.

Actually, now that I look at it.....CtC has over 20 million plays, maybe it WASN'T that small, kinda increases the chance it was stolen from that though

Thanks for the link .

I'd just be cautious of the assumption that similarity entails theft.

Otherwise we need to figure out who CtC stole it from since it would be established that the only way you could create this concept in it's entirety is to steal it from another source .

Don't get me wrong, you could be right, just saying that it's quite a leap to assume that two entities can't come to the same conclusion without meeting one another. It's happened many times in ancient astronomy (a time when stealing the ideas of someone thousands of miles away was quite a feat).

I don't know....I feel pretty safe in the assumption.

It's not like I think they stole their source code or anything, but I think it was probably something like "Wow, we should make something like this for the AppStore, I bet it would do well!"

but isnt castle crushers in the app store too? They didnt really steal it. They made a similar game with better controls and mechanics and started out with just as much advertising as castle crusher. The fact that they did better means they made a better game not the same game. (I've played both I like angry birds better) Saying they stole it is like saying that all tower defence games stole their gameplay from the very first or all fps's did too.

 

[Danpascooch]

Ugh, that game leaves a bad taste in my mouth considering it was totally stolen from a small flash game that never took off.

What's the game?

Second if only every knock off was that good.

Third it was their 20th attempt at a game or something like that so I'd cut them a little slack .

http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle

It's like, EXACTLY the same thing, except I actually like Crush the Castle better.

Actually, now that I look at it.....CtC has over 20 million plays, maybe it WASN'T that small, kinda increases the chance it was stolen from that though

Thanks for the link .

I'd just be cautious of the assumption that similarity entails theft.

Otherwise we need to figure out who CtC stole it from since it would be established that the only way you could create this concept in it's entirety is to steal it from another source .

Don't get me wrong, you could be right, just saying that it's quite a leap to assume that two entities can't come to the same conclusion without meeting one another. It's happened many times in ancient astronomy (a time when stealing the ideas of someone thousands of miles away was quite a feat).

I don't know....I feel pretty safe in the assumption.

It's not like I think they stole their source code or anything, but I think it was probably something like "Wow, we should make something like this for the AppStore, I bet it would do well!"

but isnt castle crushers in the app store too? They didnt really steal it. They made a similar game with better controls and mechanics and started out with just as much advertising as castle crusher. The fact that they did better means they made a better game not the same game. (I've played both I like angry birds better) Saying they stole it is like saying that all tower defence games stole their gameplay from the very first or all fps's did too.

The idea of launching an item into a structure made of different strength and sized rectangles in order to topple it, killing enemies inside, with a set amount of projectiles and more or less IDENTICAL physics is a hell of a lot more specific than "First Person Shooter"

There aren't many games similar to Castle Crashers and Angry Birds, if there were, I would be more inclined to write it off as a coincidence. It just bothers me that Angry Birds has become a phenomena while most people haven't heard of the ACTUALLY ORIGINAL Castle Crashers, which I actually think is better for its launch mechanic and different ammo types.

 

[Dejobaan]

Now I really want to see AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!: The Board Game.

I'll let you fill in the details.

It better come out in 2012 (That's when AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! takes place)

We have been working on just that. Here's what we have so far.

 

[Alphakirby]

Now I really want to see AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!: The Board Game.

I'll let you fill in the details.

It better come out in 2012 (That's when AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! takes place)

We have been working on just that. Here's what we have so far.

Wow! Can't wait to buy 55 copies for all my friends family pets and total strangers! =D

 

[Kanazuchi]

Ah, Crossbows and Catapults for the digital age....

Holy smoke, now there's a blast from my past. We never played by the rules, just fired at each other willy-nilly until a carom ended up somewhere where it shouldn't.

I have a feeling this will be like Mouse Trap. We never bothered with the rules or dice. Just kept on making the trap go off.

There's not a lot of game to Mouse Trap. I think it may even be the reason for the board gamer derogatory term "roll the dice, move your mice."

 

[theultimateend]

The idea of launching an item into a structure made of different strength and sized rectangles in order to topple it, killing enemies inside, with a set amount of projectiles and more or less IDENTICAL physics is a hell of a lot more specific than "First Person Shooter"

There aren't many games similar to Castle Crashers and Angry Birds, if there were, I would be more inclined to write it off as a coincidence. It just bothers me that Angry Birds has become a phenomena while most people haven't heard of the ACTUALLY ORIGINAL Castle Crashers, which I actually think is better for its launch mechanic and different ammo types.

To each their own .

I thought CC was terrible myself.

At the end of the day they may have copied it, but I like angry birds. I'm just rarely willing to accept anyone stole anyone elses idea without better evidence. Largely because as I mentioned the original people had to come to the same conclusion somehow.

If I recall the telescope was invented at nearly the exact same time in two separate countries a t a time when internet wasn't even a thought in a glimmer of a seed of a mind.

So it's not exactly unheard of.

I bet multiple people make the exact same recipe too. It's a matter of us all living on the same planet with the same basic construction. We sense the world largely in similar ways.

That's why lots of humor works for all of us. We all have (more or less) many features in our lives that are the same or very similar.

Be nice if folks embraced those more often ...also...captcha again? Does it ever stop asking?

 

[Danpascooch]

The idea of launching an item into a structure made of different strength and sized rectangles in order to topple it, killing enemies inside, with a set amount of projectiles and more or less IDENTICAL physics is a hell of a lot more specific than "First Person Shooter"

There aren't many games similar to Castle Crashers and Angry Birds, if there were, I would be more inclined to write it off as a coincidence. It just bothers me that Angry Birds has become a phenomena while most people haven't heard of the ACTUALLY ORIGINAL Castle Crashers, which I actually think is better for its launch mechanic and different ammo types.

To each their own .

I thought CC was terrible myself.

At the end of the day they may have copied it, but I like angry birds. I'm just rarely willing to accept anyone stole anyone elses idea without better evidence. Largely because as I mentioned the original people had to come to the same conclusion somehow.

If I recall the telescope was invented at nearly the exact same time in two separate countries a t a time when internet wasn't even a thought in a glimmer of a seed of a mind.

So it's not exactly unheard of.

I bet multiple people make the exact same recipe too. It's a matter of us all living on the same planet with the same basic construction. We sense the world largely in similar ways.

That's why lots of humor works for all of us. We all have (more or less) many features in our lives that are the same or very similar.

Be nice if folks embraced those more often ...also...captcha again? Does it ever stop asking?

I'm just saying it's a pretty big coincidence that they are so overwhelmingly similar.

What did you dislike about CC BTW? Just curious.

I'm not saying it's definitely stolen, but I think it was