Flappy Bird Creator Plagiarized from Nintendo’s Super Marios Bros and Piou Piou
From [url]http://www.inquisitr.com/1127588/flappy-bird-nintendo-lawsuit-threat-over-mario-bros-caused-removal/[/url]
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If you compare the Flappy Bird pipes it’s obvious [COLOR="#FF0000"]they’re ripping off the art style of Nintendo’s Super Marios Bros. pipes. Even the coin sound effects are extremely similar[/COLOR]
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there’s also a [COLOR="#FF0000"]2011 game called Piou Piou[/COLOR] that features a big-lipped yellow bird dodging between objects. Considering how lawsuit happy some game developers like Zynga and King have been it’s possible the makers of Piou Piou could sue Dong Nguyen.[/INDENT]
From [url]http://o.canada.com/technology/gaming/flappy-bird-is-the-ultimate-mobile-game-ripoff/[/url]
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Normally, this would be acceptable because video games often borrow features from other games; it’s the nature of the industry. In the case of Flappy Bird though, the game is [COLOR="#FF0000"]almost a complete ripoff of a 2011 iOS game called Piou Piou vs. Cactus[/COLOR]. It also [COLOR="#FF0000"]heavily borrows its sound effects from the Super Mario Bros. franchise[/COLOR].[/INDENT]
[url]http://kickerdaily.com/famous-game-flappy-bird-a-ripoff-from-mario-bros-makes-50kday-on-ads/[/url]
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[COLOR="#FF0000"]almost everything in the Flappy Bird game was actually a copy[/COLOR]. The website also pointed out that [COLOR="#FF0000"]much of the art in the game has been copied from Super Mario Bros[/COLOR]. by Nintendo.
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[COLOR="#FF0000"]even the sound effects[/COLOR] when your bird flies between pipes heavily resembles Mario’s coin-collecting sound, describing it as [COLOR="#FF0000"]nearly identical[/COLOR]. The [COLOR="#FF0000"]backgrounds also appear to be very similar[/COLOR] to the famous Mario game as well
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Among all the criticism, the most critical could be game play, where the objective of the game is to have a yellow bird go through obstacles, which have been done before [COLOR="#FF0000"]in a game called “Piou Piou”.[/COLOR]
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Kotaku also said that “Flappy Bird has gotten so big that its creator, [COLOR="#FF0000"]Dong Nguyen, told The Verge he’s making $50,000 a day on ad revenue. $50,000 a day! That’s $18 million a year[/COLOR], FYI.”
Fans also criticized Dong Nguyen, the creator of Flappy Bird, as being [COLOR="#FF0000"]dishonest, making money for an idea he didn’t even create[/COLOR].[/INDENT]
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My 2 cents:
[INDENT]The creator of Flappy Bird is Dong Nguyen (Nguyễn Hà Đông) who resides in Hanoi. The guy made money by ripping off ideas, graphics, and sound effect from Mario Bros and Piou Piou. Instead of apologizing for his dishonesty and blatant violation of copyright infringements, he put on a boohoo act and pulled the game off the app store. Of course he got to keep his millions :p
Có những đám vịt kêu ca ngợi tên kia là tài giỏi và to họng bảo là người Việt cần phải bênh vực nhau . Loại người này có khái niệm ǵ về "professional ethics" không? Dung túng cho điều xấu là giúp cho điều xấu điều ác sinh sôi nẩy nở tràn lan trong xă hội <--- Hành vi ÁC đức . Lương tâm, liêm sỹ, morality của loại người này để nơi nào? Despicable.[/INDENT]
