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Are Ketchapp really "the 2048 guys"? My memory of the situation was that 2048 was a Web game, which took off among a large group of people that Threes didn't r
by rspeer 12y ago
Are Ketchapp really "the 2048 guys"?
My memory of the situation was that 2048 was a Web game, which took off among a large group of people that Threes didn't reach (people without iPhones, people who weren't going to pay for a small puzzle game, and people who just wanted to play a quick game on the Web).
And because it was open source and had an incredibly untrademarkable name, a bunch of app developers made mobile clones of it. I assume that Ketchapp was one of them and that the creator of 2048 was entirely uninvolved. Correct me if I'm wrong. It seems to me that the title should be "Some guys who cloned 2048 also cloned another game".
I'm dismayed that someone making a fun, free Web game and expecting nothing in return can turn into a symbol of evil cloning in the mobile game industry. Are we returning to the mindset where open source is seen as maliciously undercutting commercial software?
- wodenokoto 12y agoYou are absolutely right. 2048 is not by ketchapp, but by a guy called Gabriel Cirulli [1]. He did later make an official 2048 app. [1] http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/
- clarky07 12y agoI think they were the first to put it on the App Store, and if not they were at least the most popular. If you search 2048, they are the first app.
- mu_killnine 12y agoThe author notes on his r/gamedev post that actually he got the name wrong. Ketchapp isn't the original 2048 guys but rather a group that knocked off the concept (a foreboding allusion to what happens to the author). That said, a lot of folks knocked off the threes concept. Still, I found it ironic in this context.
- sjs382 12y ago> The author notes on his r/gamedev post that actually he got the name wrong. Great, but he should correct it in the post, so as not to bring innocent people into his scuffle.