This is our philosophy: Find a successful business -> Discover as much as possible about it -> Re-implement it all -> Then battle them for supremacy. Having an enemy brings out our primal instincts. Boom. :)
This is our philosophy: Find a successful business -> Discover as much as possible about it -> Re-implement it all -> Then battle them for supremacy. Having an enemy brings out our primal instincts. Boom. :)
This is very important as it's counter to the common belief that success is based on having a "new" idea instead of just taking over an existing market.
I have a couple that have had two of their games completely cloned, and filled with cheap 'casual appeal' graphics (one of which made it to #7 on the app store). I find this a kind of dirty way to make money.
http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/221862/hey-thats-my-fish...
If someone is stealing your ideas and executing better than you, then maybe you need to find out what they are doing right, so your next game does just as well or better than the clones.
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