A mobile clone of Unpacking, the popular indie game where you organize pixel art stuff, was quickly removed from the iOS App Store and Google Play Store after the developer of the original game, Witch Beam Games, called it on Twitter. Egger Viehansky, CEO of the publisher of RipF game, has apologized A statement to KotakuCiting “lack of research” on clone developer submissions.
“The game clearly resembles ‘Unpacking’ and this resemblance goes beyond the title of the game. We made noise and we apologize,” Vyhansky said.
The clone is called Unpacking Master, a title that anyone can easily Google check for similar games, and it looks incredibly similar to the unpacking of Witch Beam games. Unpacking, the original, does not have a mobile version at the moment and Unpacking Master probably capitalized on it. The 2D game has the same mundane features, for household items to hold stuffed shelves and drawers. You can see the match in one Witch Beam Games tweets Which directly compares unpacking to cloning.
If you’ve recently seen an ad for a game that looks suspiciously similar to Unpacking📦 on mobile, please note that this isn’t our game. Although they definitely want to give the idea that it is! Pic.twitter.com/d3ULxxbmSAJanuary 25, 2022
There are several more unpacking clones in the Google Play Store, but Unpacking Master has risen to the top through ticks and ads on Instagram. According to Witch Beam Games. “For a small team like ours, it’s frustrating to see content planning, refinement and rapid reproduction of handicrafts literally being spent year after year on an opportunistic ad-prone app just three months after our launch,” said the developer. Wrote.
Earlier this month, a daring clone developer boasted on Twitter about the successful mobile version of his popular word game Wordle. Her game, Wordle – The App, has been removed from the App Store along with every other game with the title “Wordle”. Nevertheless, Wordle clones still exist in the App Store under different names, such as “Wordus”. Developers who have had their games stolen for mobile ports seem to be relying on Google and Apple for what is acceptable and what is not.
Original Unpacking is one of our favorite games of 2021 Our own Sarah James called it “one of the coolest games of the year” and “really cathartic”.
