Google accused of plagiarism of the game Ingress

On November 27, an interesting article was published on Indiestatik that Google is not the author of the Ingress idea, but more than that, the idea was shamelessly stolen a little less than completely.




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According to Indiestatik, the idea of ​​the game Ingress almost completely copies another game - Shadow Cities, which was launched earlier by a small team of independent developers. In the picture above you can compare the interfaces.

On November 28, they also wrote about Tech2 with quotes from one of the developers, Jenni Saarinen, who did the graphics for Shadow Cities: “Google stole our progressive game in an outrageous way, changed the names of the opposing sides and released it with its gigantic marketing budget. All mechanics are completely stolen from Shadow Cities. Even the trailer is one-to-one. They just took and killed a small startup, whose members went all out with their micro-budget to release something really worthwhile and innovative. ”

It seems to me that someone is very cool framed Google. At the very least, the one who submitted the idea of ​​developing this game inside Google obviously knew about Shadow Cities, because the maps and the idea are very similar.

In place of Apple, I would quickly buy the rights to Shadow Cities right now and start a lawsuit for 40 five-centuer truck with Google.