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Latest mobile gaming sensation 2048 accused of copying older game

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By Shruti Dhapola /  28 Mar 2014 , 17:07

Mobile gaming has a new addictive game called 2048 and pretty much everyone has been going crazy about it in the media. The game has been built by 19 year old Italian programmer named Gabriele Cirulli. In the game, users have to swipe the tiles to add together 2s and 4s and 8s etc till they get to the number 2048. The game is quite easy to understand and fun.  The game was released on 9 March and has been gaining immense popularity.

Everything as they say, was awesome. That is, until the creator of the game was accused of plagiarism.

Creators of another game called “Threes,” a paid game which is also available on both iOS and Android, have written a blog post saying that 2048 and another game called 1024 have blatantly copied them.

So what is Threes all about? Threes is all about matching numbers around multiples of three. That is adding one plus 2, which is 3, then three plus three which six and so on.

The developers of Threes wrote in a blogpost, saying, “we’re not shy about calling a clone a clone, and believe us, there’s no shortage of straight-up clones out there, especially on Android. But it’s the not-really-clone sort of games, the rip-offs, that have popped up that have our feelings puzzled. We know how to deal with a clone, and likely, so do you.”