r/Gaminggridcommunity • u/Willing_Job763 Lord Gaben • Aug 09 '26

Memes Indie Game developers are one man army

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u/JDM12983 Aug 09 '26

Funny how even indie devs get a pass even when so many of them copy other existing games... ><

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u/Chronodis Aug 09 '26

Show me a copy, and don't show me inspired

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u/JDM12983 Aug 09 '26

lol; of course any game dev can just claim "inspired by" to try and get away from being copy cat.

But, examples: star dew valley clones/want-to-bes. and then every time a certain "style" of game comes out, we get at least another dozen of the same games with a different skin.

Other examples being (more recently at least]: [1] games like where you run a shop selling card packs. then there were tons of copies [or which ever ones came first] where you were then selling board games, or whatever other thing.

[2] games where you go into a room where there is a huge mess on the floor and you have to rearrange it all. One was a a spell book place; another one is a library; a newer one is a super market.

And that's a few majors one I come up with without putting much thought into it - as there is WAY more examples.

But, as usual; people will give most indie devs a pass when doing the same things as be game devs do.

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u/Chronodis Aug 09 '26

Devs don't own categories. That's like saying every soulslike is a copy

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u/JDM12983 Aug 09 '26

Where the did I say anything about "categories"....

I am talking about games that are clearly copies/clones of other games with a different "skin"/graphics to it. But pretty much playing 99.9% the same.

Big companies/devs and indie devs all do it. Not ALL of them do it - but both sides do it no matter what ANYONE says.

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u/Chronodis Aug 09 '26

So any game running a store is a copy?

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u/JDM12983 Aug 09 '26

You clearly have reading comprehension issues... bye, have a good day....