Screens, however, let you compare the levels in every detail and you can have screens of both games at once, making them way more convincing! If you link to them (though linking to both video and screens shouldn't be bad, either ^^), people will see the strong evidence that the author made a major ripoff. I think that comparing videos isn't the best idea, though before I watch one of them, I'll already forget what was in another one.
If he didn't, then what he did is at least extremely rude, and the fact that he charges money for that makes it even worse. If he did, then I guess it's not really that bad, although he should've inform you about it first out of decency, at least. On the other hand, I'm not an expert of intellectual property law and I can't say for sure whether it's illegal or just sliding on the border of it (and my main concern is levels design, because game ideas per se aren't protected at all otherwise situation could get pretty ludicrous when someone made Pong and others wouldn't be allowed to remake it with loads of their original additions).īut yes, now I think that whether it's something really wrong or just a bit wrong depends on whether the author stated that this game was inspired by Hops or not. I'm not sure about the legal part, though level design (though it seems that it's really exact ripoff O.o') and idea might not be enough for it to be considered as breaking the copyright, and make it more of a remake (after all, the author *did* include the original elements, such as graphics, sounds and other tweaks, like watermelon pieces or timer). Oh well, I think that ripping off entire levels is at least questionable.
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