There's Taking A Game Concept...

[Evastio]

And then there's blatantly plagiarizing it.

Don't get me wrong. There are "clone" games out there that I enjoy and have no problem with, like Crash Team Racing and Playstation All Stars Battle Royale, since it takes a concept and introduces new elements to it and/or changes around the game world so it's not plagiarizing intellectual property. But ripping off character designs (like those angry tortoises and the red shirted protagonist with blue overalls and a red cap from 3D Cartoon Land Safari) and levels (every track on Mole Kart is taken directly from Mario Kart Wii) is crossing the line. The Master of Monsters game is okay I suppose, but borrows from Pokemon way too much (the attack types, the battle screen layout, the map screen layout).

The Mole Kart developers got caught and had to release a new version with altered tracks (if you ask me, copying Mario Kart tracks down to the last mushroom seems like more work and time than creating your own tracks).

Still, I can't help but chuckle a bit watching those videos. I can't explain why.

So what do you guys think of games like this? Do you have any games like this you want to share?

[Fynn]

Well, here they have TV adds for phone game rip-offs. There's plants vs ghosts and something like angry birds only with forest animals.

[Jiro]

That is a really obvious rip off, I'm amazed. If they ever have any success then you can be sure that they'll take action!

[Bolivar]

There's a market for it. Those games aren't meant to be serious packages for you to buy and keep around for a long time, like the SCE games Evastio mentioned. I remember when we were in programming/computer clases in high school and they actually gave us internet, we would play a lot of games like these on addicting games or candy stand.

[Mercen-X]

Plagiarius!