The Appside » App Games http://www.theappside.com Fri, 17 May 2013 15:21:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Cut the Birds causes controversy with chart-topping position http://www.theappside.com/2011/11/01/cut-the-birds-causes-controversy-with-chart-topping-position/ http://www.theappside.com/2011/11/01/cut-the-birds-causes-controversy-with-chart-topping-position/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:14:06 +0000 Admin http://www.theappside.com/?p=2673 Guess which two games iOS title Cut the Birds is inspired by. If you said Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja, have a celebratory biscuit. Developed by Ukrainian firm Solverlabs, it gets players to slice distinctly Rovio-like birds up as they flutter across the screen. Every popular game on the App Store has a bunch of clones, but this one has ruffled feathers (sorry) because of the way it has soared (and again) up the charts. Even Rovio’s Peter Vesterbacka has passed comment, calling the game a “blatant rip-off” according to PaidContent. A lot of developers have been wondering why Apple approved the game in the first place, given the blatant nature of its influences. It could be argued that it’s down to developers to protect their IP in these cases – Rovio would seemingly have the strongest case due to the design of the birds.

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]]> Guess which two games iOS title Cut the Birds is inspired by. If you said Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja, have a celebratory biscuit. Developed by Ukrainian firm Solverlabs, it gets players to slice distinctly Rovio-like birds up as they flutter across the screen. Every popular game on the App Store has a bunch of clones, but this one has ruffled feathers (sorry) because of the way it has soared (and again) up the charts. Even Rovio’s Peter Vesterbacka has passed comment, calling the game a “blatant rip-off” according to PaidContent. A lot of developers have been wondering why Apple approved the game in the first place, given the blatant nature of its influences. It could be argued that it’s down to developers to protect their IP in these cases – Rovio would seemingly have the strongest case due to the design of the birds.

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