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Zynga Accused of Cloning Hit Indie iPhone Game Tiny Tower

Posted by samzenpus on from the we-did-it-first dept.

FrankPoole writes "Indie iPhone game developer Nimblebit is accusing social games giant Zynga of ripping off its popular mobile title Tiny Tower. Nimblebit's Ian Marsh got word out about the similarities between Dream Heights and Tiny Tower with an image that's still making the Twitter rounds. The image is made up of screenshots showing how Dream Heights' interface and gameplay mechanics appear strikingly similar to Tiny Tower's."

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  1. Re:Happens all the time. by Pieroxy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Logo was created in the 60s, turtles and all. It was popular on other systems as well in the early 80s, so it doesn't really seem to me that they did anything wrong here?

    Please, don't let facts ruin an otherwise perfectly valid Apple bashing. Oh, they also stole all of Xerox's assets, didn't you know?

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  2. Re:Happens all the time. by ynp7 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think that people use the word "stole" because of the way that Apple fanboys pretend that Apple invented everything great about computing, when in fact they've mostly taken everything from someone else (nothing wrong with that) and made it crappy and hard to use. That they've managed to sell that crap to millions of idiots with poor aesthetic sensibilities is irrelevant.