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[moshboy]

Straight clones always baffle me.  I can't imagine why someone would voluntarily put themselves through all the pain of building a game, but then deny themselves the joy of getting to be creative.

It's called 'making a quick buck'.. especially with how easy it is to get flash sponsorship nowadays.

[Shambrook]

Like when Super Mario Galaxy was announced there were suddenly quite some games featuring "circular physics" (or whatever they are called).

To be fair, they did pretty much just rip that whole concept straight out of Sonic Adventure 2.

[fish]

Like when Super Mario Galaxy was announced there were suddenly quite some games featuring "circular physics" (or whatever they are called).

To be fair, they did pretty much just rip that whole concept straight out of Sonic Adventure 2.

what?

(they ripped it off from the mario 64 US box art.)

[increpare]

Like when Super Mario Galaxy was announced there were suddenly quite some games featuring "circular physics" (or whatever they are called).

To be fair, they did pretty much just rip that whole concept straight out of Sonic Adventure 2.

Or maybe even Sonic 1 and Knuckles

[Zaphos]

Or sometimes

.

Wait, my bad, I seemed to have mistyped "Ratchet and Clank"

[atomic1fire]

You can take an idea and still be original
as long as you do something innovative with it.
Physics draw is pretty fun but its not a puzzle game like crayon physics was
I suppose you could make puzzles out of it but machines and stuff are cooler

[William Broom]

Even though I love Miyamoto, he was a real dick about who came up with the idea for spherical gravity. The Ratchet and Clank guys just said, very nicely, that they were stoked to see Miyamoto taking their idea to a whole new level. In response, Miyamoto claimed to have never even heard of Ratchet and Clank ("Is that a PC game?") and said he had had the idea for spherical gravity before the N64 came out.

[Zaphos]

Even though I love Miyamoto, he was a real dick about who came up with the idea for spherical gravity. The Ratchet and Clank guys just said, very nicely, that they were stoked to see Miyamoto taking their idea to a whole new level. In response, Miyamoto claimed to have never even heard of Ratchet and Clank ("Is that a PC game?") and said he had had the idea for spherical gravity before the N64 came out.

Well the idea does show up in Yoshi's Island, so Miyamoto was probably just speaking honestly.

[mewse]

This baffles me.

Surely the concept of spherical gravity is not a new one.  I mean, at least not since some bright chap figured out that the Earth isn't actually a flat plane.  Unless they were employing that guy at the time, how can any development studio maintain a straight face when claiming to have invented this idea?

[William Broom]

This baffles me.

Surely the concept of spherical gravity is not a new one.  I mean, at least not since some bright chap figured out that the Earth isn't actually a flat plane.  Unless they were employing that guy at the time, how can any development studio maintain a straight face when claiming to have invented this idea?

Obviously, we're talking about spherical gravity in a videogame.

[mewse]

This baffles me.

Surely the concept of spherical gravity is not a new one.  I mean, at least not since some bright chap figured out that the Earth isn't actually a flat plane.  Unless they were employing that guy at the time, how can any development studio maintain a straight face when claiming to have invented this idea?

Obviously, we're talking about spherical gravity in a videogame.

Obviously.  My point was that gravity actually does go in more than one direction in the real world.  We're all familiar with this, and it's not in any way a new idea, so I don't see how someone can claim that the idea is "theirs". 

But if you insist, then circular gravity was one of the defining gameplay elements in the original Spacewar!, which was written in 1961.  And I'm sure that Steve Russell, Martin Graetz, and Wayne Wiitanen would say that they were very pleased to see their idea being taken to an entirely new level, more than forty years later.

So forgive me if I don't take this scandal very seriously.   

[Corpus]

Idea: Maybe Miyamoto hadn't heard of Ratchet & Clank.

[Inane]

Idea: Maybe Miyamoto hadn't heard of Ratchet & Clank.

Stop taking Zaphos's ideas!

[Headmade]

This is ridiculous! Everyone knows it was Newton who came up with this.