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Angry Farm is an Angry Birds knockoff for BlackBerry
Angry Farm has 30 levels and free upgrades for life, and it works on BlackBerry devices running BlackBerry OS 4.6 and up. The cost: $4.99. How blatant can an Angry Birds clone get before Rovio attempts to shut it down? I have a feeling we may be about to find out. Either that, or the real Angry Birds for BlackBerry will come out ...
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Subscribe to commentsmotangFeb 25th 2011 9:29PM
Wow, the art style even looks like Angry Birds.
5hRreDDyFeb 26th 2011 8:59AM
I find it downright reprehensible when people flagrantly plagiarise others' work and then attempt to make money out of it. I hope Rovio and co. are ready to take action.
ChrisSskFeb 26th 2011 12:57PM
@5hRreDDy
They didn't plagiarize anything, gameplay can't be copyrighted. Thats why we have multiple games of the same genre, if it could be copyrighted there would be about 10 games available, 1 first-person shooter, 1 racing sim, 1 RPG, ...
Rovio can claim the name is too similar to their (almost certainly trademarked) Angry Birds and have them change it, but thats about it.
ltFeb 26th 2011 10:26AM
Before you call Angry Farm a knock off you should also say that Angry Birds is a knock off of at least 50 free other physics games.
KualaBeeFeb 26th 2011 1:39PM
@ChrisSsk
Google up "Crazy Taxi Vs Simpson Road Rage". If we judging based on that legal precedent, Angry Birds has the makers of Angry Farms by the cojones if they decide to sue.
D. SligarFeb 26th 2011 4:49PM
@KualaBee Likewise, if any of the number of physics-game precursors to Angry Birds decides to do the same to Angry Birds, then what? While it is, arguably, wrong that another company created a game with such similarities, the most I could see being argued is the "Angry" part of the title. Even that can be defended, given all the i-prefixed apps and other titles borrowing from each other.
I'm sure if Rovio ported the app then they'd outsell based on name recognition alone, but who's to say the game play won't be laggy in their app too? It's not like the BB's have the latest and greatest hardware or that the OS will allow for smooth gameplay.
ChrisSskFeb 26th 2011 5:15PM
@KualaBee
Sega and Fox settled out of court so there is no precedent based on that case, and given that there is a GTA clone game genre, I doubt the game industry was faced by Sega's attempt to stop a crazy taxi clone
rbuzzFeb 26th 2011 3:17PM
LAGGY. The game is almost unplayable.