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Is it just me, or is Ingress a rip-off of the Finnish Shadow Cities iOS-only game http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/arts/video-games/shadow-cities-a-new-iphone-

• lysol 14y ago
  I thought the same thing when it came out, to be honest. Even the aesthetics are similar.
  • harshreality 14y ago
    Shadow Cities has been out for over a year based on the NYT article, and still has no android client. Who can blame someone for developing a reality overlay for android, particularly when Shadow Cities is more fantasy-focused ("spells")? Is every reality overlay going to be called a Shadow Cities rip off? In that case both Shadow Cities and Ingress are a rip off of the reality overlay concept in Vinge's Rainbows End (which itself is a departure, but got some of its inspiration, from previous fictional virtual environments, like the one in Snowcrash).