It looks like kind of a rough version of Crimsonland, which is a pretty great Indie PC game. Awesome song.

Exactly what I thought - this looks like a completely blatant 99% ripoff of Crimsonland, which incidentally looked a 100 times better while being a 2003 freeware(!) game. Plagiarism wtf?

ehehe.. how can you with a straight face call a game a ripoff of a game that, really, is the first game every single programmer does?
it's as much a ripoff as me walking is to my father walking
it's natural, it's obvious, it's what always happened and it's not original

if i had an xbox, i might even pay a $1 for it...
any amount of insanity in game development is to be encouraged

>> ^direpickle:
It looks like kind of a rough version of Crimsonland, which is a pretty great Indie PC game. Awesome song.


Holy crap! I remember Crimsonland! It's never left my mind but I forgot the name a long time ago and always questioned what it was called!

Anyone ever play the Boxhead zombie games? One is called "The Rooms", another is "More Rooms"

http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/fullscreen.php?game=Boxhead-More-Rooms

The first game in this genera was ROBOTRON , I Think it can be hard sometimes to tell if something is a homage, rip off or something that's very similar but of value in its own right.

In the end it can just come down to intentoin so long as the dev is ohnist about where they got the idea from what they wanted to do then it dosent matter , I would only have a problem with someone peddaling mechanics as there inventoin , with a game mechanic as old as the one in this game it would be obsurd for the developer to claim it as there own and hence I think it would be hard to call it a ripp off. The $1 fee seems fair to me for the work he has done in implimentatoin + the song + art work.

I get more angry when companies patient fundamental mechanics , its like some dip shit paintenting the wheel all it dose is hinder creative freedom and development of the mideaum.

>> ^shole:
ehehe.. how can you with a straight face call a game a ripoff of a game that, really, is the first game every single programmer does?
it's as much a ripoff as me walking is to my father walking
it's natural, it's obvious, it's what always happened and it's not original
if i had an xbox, i might even pay a $1 for it...
any amount of insanity in game development is to be encouraged


It's not just the sort of game that we're talking about, but the art style. Compare the enemies and powerups to Crimsonland...