Hi everyone,
I'm the developer of a game, Flying Aces, that was released last September. It's a simple line drawing game, of which there are now several variations on a similar theme. There is a very popular iPhone game, Flight Control, that is one of the most popular (over 2 million sales) developed by Firemint. Firemint, according to their website, are porting their Flight Control game to Android very soon. I was contacted last week, with this email: http://stickycoding.com/fa1.pdf I promptly replied, asking whether it was some kind of joke, and asked whether they are accusing me of using any of their graphics/audio/ resources (which I do not). I got this response today: http://stickycoding.com/fa2.pdf They appear to be demanding (they haven't explicitly mentioned, but I'm sure they will mention legal proceedings in their next reply) that I stop selling my game, because it is vaguely similar to theirs. Now, yes, you land planes by dragging a path, but that's the line-drawing genre. And mentioning similar things such as "helicopter landing site with a big H". Does anyone have any opinions on this matter? I'm assuming they have contacted developers of similar apps (Flight Director is very similar to my game, and is more popular, I would assume they were contacted first) so I've emailed them to see. I don't take to kindly to larger businesses trying to nudge indie devs like myself out of the way to create a monopoly for there game before it is even published. I know this isn't a programming question but, I figured it applies to many developers like myself, and there isn't much in the way of advice other than on here. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
