{"id":31710,"date":"2012-01-30T16:50:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T14:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31710"},"modified":"2012-01-30T16:54:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T14:54:50","slug":"zynga-accused-of-more-copying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31710-zynga-accused-of-more-copying","title":{"rendered":"Zynga accused of more copying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being called out by Nimblebit last week for cloning their Tiny Towers game and releasing it on <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20018-iOS\">iOS<\/a> as Dream Heights &#8211; it seems more indie developers are sticking it to the big-boy social gaming company, <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20175-Zynga\">Zynga<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Buffalo Studios, clearly taking inspiration from Nimblebit, have posted their own comparison sheet &#8211; drawing the lines of similarity between the indie&#8217;s Bingo Blitz and Zynga Bingo.<\/p>\n<p>Like Nimblebit, Buffalo pointed out the huge difference in size between the companies, saying, &#8220;Please tell your thousands of employees and shareholders that we hope they enjoy playing the games we&#8217;re cooking up next!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not missing a chance to take a further jab at Zynga, Buffalo added &#8220;PS &#8211; As you can see, NimbleBit inspires us too!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeowch. Called out.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"CVG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/333831\/zynga-hit-with-another-plagiarism-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a>, <a title=\"MCVUK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/static\/images\/assets\/1552\/3149_buffalobuffalobuffalobuffalobuffalobuffalobuffalo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">MCVUK<\/a> (Image)<\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Article<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"MyGaming Article\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31449-nimblebit-accuses-zynga-of-tiny-tower-plagiarism.html\">Nimblebit accuses Zynga of Tiny Tower plagiarism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of employees, but no original ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":31711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2186,531,2136,2187,1353],"class_list":["post-31710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-buffalo-studios","tag-ios","tag-nimblebit","tag-plagiarism","tag-zynga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31712,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31710\/revisions\/31712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}