Angry Birds Vs. Crush The Castle?

Today I came across a very interesting video titled “Did Angry Birds Steal From Crush The Castle?”. After thinking about it a bit – I actually realized that Angry Birds came out after Crush The Castle (which exists for so many years now). And since both games share the “same concept”, I guess you can make the claim I mentioned.

But in my opinion, in the gaming industry – things like this are OK. Of course game developers will be inspired by other successful games. They are gamers themselves ! You can’t just copy another game – but we are not talking about stealing here – but about “similar” games.

I remember that after Flappy Bird became super popular, many similar games appeared.  Some of them were pretty much identical. I even saw that Flappy Bird game templates are sold online. That means that everyone can buy them and release their own “Flappy Bird” game for cheap, and within hours (you won’t even have to code anything. Just change the name of the app, pay Google a fee – and that’s it).  Things like this are very common. No one wants to start from zero. Many prefer taking “ideas” and “concepts” from popular games. Is this the right way to go? I don’t know, but it seems like it is working great for many game developers.

Anyways, here is the video I was talking about. It received over 20,000 views, and that says a lot in my opinion.