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livepreview on March 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game

No offense, but it seems to me that researching and subsequently ripping off 20 year-old games is somewhat different than ripping off days-old games already designed for the same interface.

vacri on March 28, 2014 [–]

A fair point in terms of ethics. I guess I was talking about originality.

hnal943 on March 28, 2014 | [–]

I think the true originality is pretty hard to come by. There's nothing new under the sun.

gress on March 28, 2014 | | [–]

Unless, like the creators of Threes, you spend months on painstaking design.

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