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Post by jimanddelora on Aug 29, 2021 22:01:25 GMT
I played the new Adventure trip, I think that is the one suspiciously like the Park ranger series, but then today I trialed a game from 2012 called Cruise Clues: Caribbean Adventure, I think it was the start of the Casual Arts series of Park Ranger and Cruise Directer series. Anyway I have been playing Killer Clutter and Clutter IV daily for a few months now and know the objects very well. So it was quite the surprise to see the identical items in the first 2 hidden object scenes of Cruise Clues that are used in the Clutter series! How weird is that? I would guess that maybe there is a site people can get pics from for games, like someone recently mentioned but I was really surprised to see the exact objects in another older game. Any way, wanted to share with my fellow gamers 
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2021 6:53:08 GMT
Well, your headline reads "stealing or borrowing" so I was wondering what was stolen or borrowed.
In the game world, unless they want to make their own from scratch, developers can buy images from a huge selection. If you look at old-school RPGs, many of the characters (and other images) in the games are the same, no matter which developer they are from. It's not stealing nor is it borrowing, they have been bought.
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Post by joybelle on Aug 30, 2021 7:02:15 GMT
Well we hope so @valdy, we have indeed had a speight of copy cat games lately. Mainly the ideas rather than the images. Copies of casual arts games and also cyril50 has informed us of a new TM by eightfloor that is a copy of the rescue team games. So I hope they bought some rights to them...or we shall here soon of copyright infringement I guess?? I actually wondered whether there had been a change to the laws..there have been such a lot lately LOL |
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Post by jimanddelora on Aug 30, 2021 21:40:28 GMT
I assumed that Puzzles by Joe, the Clutter creator, didn't steal his, as it was a game from 2012. I just figured that there is a site somewhere to get those images from, I was just so surprised when I saw the images, you know? But thanks for the info anyway :)
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Post by 1Ashkent on Aug 30, 2021 22:10:53 GMT
Hi Delora
Joe did mention why he re-used some of the pictures and that is how I knew about the licence to use and that he had bought the pictures.
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Post by pennmom on Aug 31, 2021 1:14:57 GMT
jimanddelora, I looked up the knock-off Cruise game you mentioned above and man that's dead on to VA OMG
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2021 9:25:21 GMT
Well we hope so @valdy, we have indeed had a speight of copy cat games lately. Mainly the ideas rather than the images. Copies of casual arts games and also cyril50 has informed us of a new TM by eightfloor that is a copy of the rescue team games. So I hope they bought some rights to them...or we shall here soon of copyright infringement I guess?? I actually wondered whether there had been a change to the laws..there have been such a lot lately LOL Oh yes, game ideas are being copied left, right and center. I will always remember Grey Alien Games's M3 game Spooky Bonus, and the copy that came out (Save Halloween: City of Witches). I remember Grey Alien Games coming to the forum at BF, complaining that this was a, more or less, exact copy of their game "Spooky Bonus". And I remember that everybody denied it, including myself (to my eternal shame, because I saw it as an exact copy as well, but went with the masses and denied it). And I remember the moderators deleting their posts, and in the end our posts as well. And that was the end of Grey Alien's contribution to BFG. Now they only sell on Steam and their own site. So yes, plenty of copied game ideas out there. But the images you often see in different games they are stock images that can be bought or you can even get them for free. I see the same characters again and again in old-school RPGs, as well as maps and other images. It's just more cost-effective for the developers to buy and use premade images. |
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