{"id":140,"date":"2016-11-21T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zemindgames.com\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2016-11-21T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T16:03:00","slug":"send-in-the-clones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zemindgames.com\/blog\/send-in-the-clones\/","title":{"rendered":"Send in the clones!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently sent to me was a <\/span>link<\/span><\/a> detailing an unsubtle \u2018Ripoff\u2019 of the immensely popular first person shooter\/Moba\/Comic book smackdown\/Rock-Paper-Scissors simulator from Blizzard called Overwatch. Understandably, from a creative standpoint, it\u2019s easy to think about why this would make developers<\/del> someone a little upset.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s rewind the clock a second and deliver a quick peek at everyone\u2019s favourite dinosaur film for an accurate summation as to what really irks the gaming development community via Dr. Ian Malcolms\u2019 character portrayed by the timeless Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic park:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now–<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

He proceeds to bang on the table before continuing.<\/b><\/p>\n

–you’re selling it, you wanna sell it.<\/span><\/i> \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n