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I just played an Alien-themed Donkey Kong clone, and I loved it
While the endless debate about what does and doesn't constitute a clone will forever rage on, I found myself playing a little something this past weekend that was a perfect homage to two of my favorite things: Donkey Kong and Alien.Donkey Me, a freeware trip down memory lane from developer Bruno R. Marcos, takes the Donkey Kong formula and reskins it using classic movies from the 1970s and 1980s. Star Wars, The Exorcist, Big Trouble in Little China - the selection is surprisingly rich. I won't spoil all of the surprises, so I'll just say this: Alien/Donkey Kong is exactly the game you want it to be.Instead of battling against the big ape, the first stage gives you the space jockey. Rescuing Kane at the end of the second stage results in a pixelated chest-burster. There's even an appearance from Jones the cat if you can push through to stage number three.
Get rich quick! (by being a slimy, game-cloning sack of crap)
When you think of the slimy folks who clone games on the App Store - the folks with purely profit-driven motives - the words "open" and "honest" probably don't spring to mind. And yet that's exactly what the post I'm about to share with you is: an open and honest look at the world of cloning games for fun and profit.First brought to our attention by Quartz, Carter Thomas' blog entry "How I Went From $1,000 to $200,000 With Apps" outlines just about everything you'd ever need to make a profitable clone of your own."DO NOT try to build something from scratch," Thomas' blog post reads. "This is not about pride or being a revolutionary. This is not about your idea being great. This is about making money." As you probably suspect, this statement very much sets the tone for what's to follow. What you might not expect, however, is how good his advice is. And not just for shameless cloners, but, well… everybody. Or, at the very least, everybody who develops free mobile games. For example;
Non-app game revenue is higher, but app game sales are growing faster
The United States leads the way when it comes to the consumption of digital content, a glimpse of the future can be had by looking at the East, and games, especially mobile games, are the current kings of digital media.Those are just a few of the insights to be gained from a new joint study from App Annie and global research firm IHS, the first to be produced by the combined efforts of both organizations. The report takes a detailed look at trends across all kinds of digital content — including digital games, game apps, other kinds of mobile apps, movie and music streaming — and also identifies how the markets in different countries differ.Probably to no one's surprise, digital games led the way globally in 2013. Consumer spending on games rose to $34 billion last year, accounting for more revenue than online movies and mobile apps combined.That number includes all types of games with digital distribution, such as online PC and browser-based titles, digital downloads on consoles and mobile game apps. But it's the last of those subcategories that has been driving the overall growth. In seven key markets (the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Russia, Japan and South Korea), spending on mobile games distributed through the iOS App Store or Google Play rose 2.9 times between 2012 and 2013, whereas spending on the entire digital games category in those same nations was up only slightly year-over-year.
IGDA issues a statement about King’s trademark actions
While a lot of individual developers have voiced concerns about King's trademark filings (as first reported by Gamezebo back in January), there hasn't been an official, collective show of opposition to what's transpired - at least not until right now.The International Game Developer's Association has just released the following statement from Executive Director Kate Edwards and their Board of Directors, regarding their stance on King's actions around protecting their IP with trademark law;-
Is Ticket to Ride’s train conductor in Broken Age?
It's funny how a little time and some outside influence can really help sway your opinion. When I first played Broken Age last month and met the train conductor, I turned to my wife and shouted "LOOK! IT'S THE TICKET TO RIDE GUY!!" I was promptly told that "all train conductors look like that," put my tail between my legs, and went back to saving the yarnpals on that runaway train.Now, a few weeks later, former Gamezebo contributor Dan Zuccarelli has noticed the same thing.Dan has stitched together a pretty handy comparison image that proves my original inclination right: that's totally the same guy. Every little detail is exact, from the bag to button count to the details on his hat. The only difference is that his positioning is mirrored from his original appearance in Ticket to Ride.Blatant rip-off, or loving homage/easter egg? I'm inclined to go with the latter. Besides, I'm still wondering why everybody in the game has Muppet noses. 
King’s IPO is about to be crowned; registration statement filed
Back in September, King was rumored to have taken the first steps towards offering an IPO when by filing an S-1 Form with the SEC (which, it turns out, wasn't true). Today they're taking one of the last. The company announced this morning in a press release that they have "filed a Form F-1 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of ordinary shares."This doesn't mean those share are for sale quite yet - or that we even know how many of them there will be or their initial price - but we're closer to finding out. The F-1 provides investors with all of the information they might need before making a decision regarding King stock. You can read the whole thing here.Once the IPO is live, King plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "KING," and a whole bevvy of business names will be acting as joint book-running managers: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, MofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital Inc., Deitsche Bank Securities Inc., and RBC Captial Markets, LLC. The first three of these will act as representatives of the underwriters in addition to book-running managers.How the stock will perform once it is live, though, is anybody's guess. Some might be quick to point to the rise and fall of Zynga (ZNGA) as a cautionary tale for investors, but despite their similar nature in some respects (both are providers of free-to-play games, and both were #1 in that market at the time of their filing), the two are incredibly different companies.
Games Like Minecraft
There are very few other games today that have managed to achieve "cult phenomenon" status as Mojang's Minecraft. The game's been sitting at the very top of the iTunes App Store "Paid Games" chart for as long as I can remember, and gamers have spent hundreds of hours crafting their own unique and blocky sandbox worlds. But despite the game's essential endless nature, sometimes you might be in the mood for some different kinds of crafting or sandbox adventuring.So we decided to compile a list of some other great games that are sure to make the Minecraft fan in all of us feel right at home. Maybe these games might change up that first-person crafting perspective, or maybe they might let you build some blocks on the moon. Either way, they're all decidedly Minecraft, but more importantly, they're all decidedly fun."The total amount of games like Minecraft today is positively staggering, and if I actually tried to write down every single one, then this list would quickly become as endless and infinite as your favorite sandbox-crafting games themselves! So if there are any other particularly good Minecraft-like experiences that we might have left out, be sure to point out your favorites in the comments section below!
The Lickening is everything that’s right with OUYA
With all the hype surrounding Soul Fjord lately, I thought it would be in my best interest to dust off the ol' OUYA this weekend and see what else had hit the console in the last few. One thing led to another, and after a few rounds of TowerFall (no matter what you planned on doing with your OUYA, as soon as you turn it on, it's always this) I somehow found myself trying to explain to my daughter how amazing the light cycle game from TRON was.How I got from a 2013 microconsole to a 1982 arcade game is anybody's guess. Let's just chalk it up to the organic nature of conversations.The OUYA has more than a few TRON light cycle knock offs in its store, so we downloaded a few in an attempt to blow her mind with early 80's awesomeness. Grid Racer was a functional enough clone, but it just didn't capture the spirit of the game that I was hoping to share with my daughter. Super Light Cycles was better, but it still left me wondering if my nostalgia was outpacing my enjoyment. Still, it was enough. The itch was scratched. It was time to move on.We proceeded to download a bunch of new games that we hadn't tried before (the OUYA is great for this, because even though the quality of games is all over the map, they're all free to try), and quickly found ourselves playing a bizarre little title called The Lickening.