I’m very pleased and impressed to see that my friends at Spry Fox have filed a Federal lawsuit against 6waves LOLapps for blatantly ripping off their game Triple Town. This is an awful situation and I wish Spry Fox the best in shutting down this ripoff.
Month: January 2012
The real Triple Town from Spry Fox is available for iOS for free above. It’s a truly clever and delightful game.
Triple Town for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th genera
Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Triple Town on the App Store. Download Triple Town and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Local game studio Spry Fox made Triple Town, an ingenious matching game for Kindle, Facebook, and Google+. Then alleged game designers Marc Tardif (formerly of Gearbox Software) and Tom Mustaine (formerly of Ritual Entertainment) at Escalation Studios in Dallas ripped it off, including its monetization strategy, and published it as Yeti Town for iOS. Their reward: acquisition by global casual publisher 6waves Lolapps. It’s sad to see thieves and copycats like these guys at Escalation Studios rewarded for their treachery.
Yeti Town, 6waves Lolapps' first iPhone game, looks terribly familiar
Yeti Town, we know you from somewhere. Ah-ha! You look just like a Kindle-turned-Facebook (and Google+) game we know, Triple Town. It's no wonder that
One year ago my friend Ray and I said, “Hey, why not adapt Sesame Street into an interactive Kinect TV show?” He and I wrote a proposal and it happened. This is why I’m working for Microsoft: because sometimes the shortest distance between a big idea and a shipping product is an enormous corporation willing to bankroll creative people.
Microsoft's Sesame Street team-up
Interactive episodes of Sesame Street are being developed by its creators in conjunction with Microsoft.