Why do developers clone other mobile games? And I don’t think we should be interested in doing that as the industry,” Kroon explained. “If you made a game called not Survivor.io, but Survivor.oi that looked exactly the same and played exactly the same, had the same art style and stuff, that what I would describe as a ‘bad clone’.
But according to Kroon, there are two types of clones: What is the difference between “good” and “bad” game clones?Īt a higher level, we can identify clones as duplicates of already existing games.
Kroon, who also has a master’s degree in game design and wrote a dissertation on the Nemesis system in Shadow of Mordor, shared his perspective on cloning with Games and Names host, AppMagic VP of product Stan Minasov.īelow are the key takeaways from the conversation, but to get the big picture, listen to the second episode in full on: