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I lost too much time having fun playing Wordfeud on iOS, had to go cold turkey and uninstall it. (No idea how they dodged the copyright issues, it seems like st
by chrisweekly 1y ago
I lost too much time having fun playing Wordfeud on iOS, had to go cold turkey and uninstall it. (No idea how they dodged the copyright issues, it seems like straight-up scrabble to me...)
- crote 1y ago> No idea how they dodged the copyright issues There's no copyright on game mechanics, if I understand correctly. You can protect stuff like the game's name, the artwork, unique characters, and the text in the rulebook - but not the purely mechanical rules themselves.
- AStonesThrow 1y agoI seem to recall that Scrabble's board layout could be an issue. The specific placement of double/triple word/letter squares is not merely an important game mechanic, but also a distinctive feature of the brand. There's also the question of letter-tile point-values, and whether those specific points could be copied verbatim. Source: I played a MUSH where players managed to reproduce games like Boggle and Scrabble for the amusement of other MUSHers
- rockdoe 1y agoWordfeud uses a different board layout.
- chrisweekly 1y agoIt's awfully close though