{"id":1237680,"date":"2025-03-06T18:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237680"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:46:06","slug":"literally-just-a-copy-hit-ios-game-accused-of-unauthorized-html5-code-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237680","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLiterally just a copy\u201d\u2014hit iOS game accused of unauthorized HTML5 code theft"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here at Ars, we’ve written<\/a> frequently<\/a> about the video game industry’s ongoing<\/a> problem<\/a> with blatant game cloning<\/a>, and the shifting<\/a> legal<\/a> and ethical<\/a> landscape<\/a> around the issue. But we’ve rarely<\/a> seen a case of alleged game theft as blatant as the one surrounding recent iOS App Store hit My Baby or Not!<\/em>, which appears to cross the line from mere cloning into outright code theft of recent indie web game Diapers, Please!<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The small, five-person development team at VoltekPlay<\/a> created Diapers, Please!<\/em> as part of a recent one-week Game Jam<\/a>. The game was posted as a free-to-play HTML5 release on itch.io<\/a> on February 23, featuring simple gameplay that involves choosing a baby that matches the visual traits of two pictured parents (with a little bit of Papers, Please<\/em>-style<\/a> authoritarian styling to boot).<\/p>\n

Three days later, on February 26, My Baby or Not!<\/em> appeared on the App Store, with screenshots and gameplay that looked not just similar but downright identical<\/em> to the Diapers, Please!<\/em> web release. The two games even shared the same description:<\/p>\n

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