Last week we reported that Apple and Google were cracking down on the flood of Flappy Bird clones filling up the App and Play stores. However, it seems that many are still getting through, with almost a third of new game arrivals on the App Store appearing to be at least heavily influenced by Flappy Bird.
After developer Mind Juice Media tweeted that its app ‘Flappy Dragon’ had been rejected from the App store for ‘attempting to ‘leverage a popular app’, it seemed that app stores might be really trying to control the flood of poor quality Flappy Bird clones. That now looks premature.
Briefly glancing through the new games on the App Store, many of them are clearly trying to ‘leverage’ Flappy Bird’s popularity. There’s ‘Flying Bacon Free‘, where you ‘help the flappy pig make it through the pipes’, ‘Mad Flapper‘, ‘Fly flappy‘, and even ‘Flappy Beard Hipster Quest‘. The list goes on and on.
Clones of big games, from Angry Birds to Candy Crush Saga, are easy to find on app stores, and while clear copyright infringement is usually dealt with, there is clearly a huge grey area where clones can exist.
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[Source: NeoGAF]
