My game has been cloned so many times I think about deleting it

Would you delete your original game because the clones and follow ups were more succesful?

The beginning:
In 2014 me and my buddy Sabba created a series of apps.
Three Points, Four Points up to Six Points.

Segmented coloured geometric shapes which you spin on tap to match the incoming coloured ball.

Three Points was featured by Apple for all of Europe as „best new game“ and after that week even slipped over to „What we play“. The game had 400’000 Installs, the game was free and only had an ad banner so we created minimal money but it was still a big success for us.
david zobrist three points karolina maria glijer

Can we have your idea?
A marketer contacted us quickly and wanted to buy the rights to make his own version of Four Points. For a minimal amount of money we gave him the rights as we didn’t make much out of our insane amount of downloads.

A week after that their version went live and was called „Impossible Rush“ but here comes the clue. They marketed it as the invention of the back then 14 year old Ben Pasternak.

Good Story right? So thought Forbes and plenty of other influencers. Also Apple Featured then app, this time „internationally“.

bah

The guy is currently marketed as 16 year old App Millionaire as he also „invented“ Flogg.
Who knows..

Respect to those wo deserve it:
A dozen of cheap clones and templates flooded the App Store and internet, trying to imitated three points and specially impossible rush’s success story.

It took a while until some company really put it to the next level.
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Color switch was here and still keeps its place in the top charts of the App Store by now.
It did what we missed to do, properly fleshing it out.

The conclusion?
Three Points is still up and running and has around 15000 active installs.
How ever I already removed the other shapes/games and also this one is not the best in monetisation and it could appear like a cheap clone of impossible rush or color switch.

Creepy Game Update

Hi everyone 🙂 It’s about time!

+NEW BONUS MISSIONS
„We didn’t need the creepy Units any longer, they did what we programmed them to do, so we decided to eliminate the last contaminated specimens, the creepy’s.
But one escaped us, he must have had help..“
Gamepad Support Added (Android):
Fire TV Remote,
Fire TV Gamepad,
XBOX 360 Wireless and Wired gamepads
PS4 Dualshock 4
Steelseries Free
OUYA Gamepad
Logitech F310 (X Mode)
Game Elements Recoil
NYKO Playpad Pro
Any gamepad made for Android (Android version 4.1 or higher!)
Download:
Google Play:
Amazon Appstore:
iOS:

Creepy’s new enemy

Creepy awakes called by a mysterious voice, finding himself surrounded by new enemies.
Machines that are programmed to destroy any sign of the infection.
Making also the Creepy Units the enemy. As creepy is shooting his way to the surface he is haunted by voices in his head.

 

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Thats kind of the plot I guess :)
2 Levels more and that Creepy Update Level Pack is ready.
It keeps on taking much longer as expected I would say even longer to create the game itself back than in 2015.

Pixel Mage Trailer

Game will go live in the next hours on android platforms.
The iOS Version will follow up in 2-4 days.

Apple Appstore:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixel-mage/id881146268?ls=1&mt=8

Google Play Appstore:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=davidzobrist.pixelmage

Amazon Appstore:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01I9IBLFM
„These Goblins broke into my house, stole my Bunny. They made a mistake..“
Jump into the role of the Pixel Mage and embark on a journey to save your Bunny.

+Retro Platform Gameplay without jumping
+Fly and cast Spells Core Mechanics
+12 Challenging Levels to beat

Can you finish the game?

3 months of work -almost done

Pixel Mage took me way longer than expected but finally is coming to an end.
I am really happy with how the levels play now.

Only a few final tweaks, where I play the game myself,over and over, to pixel nudge everything in place.

Also I will get Elijah Lucian once more for the character voices, together with his team he already took care of Voices in my previous games such as Orcs and Creepy.

The game will, as always appear for the google play App Store as well as for iOS and Amazon Devices.

I am sure if you liked creepy you will also like this one.

final floor pixal mage david zobrist in progress

Struggling with the progressing

5/8 is done
I got a lot of mixed feelings about this one tough
its not as easy for me to finish somehow
I also wish I could share it with you guys via Arcade.
But the hmtl5 version is totally fucked up and doesn’t work at all.
It seems to handle a lot of behaviours totally different than the editor and mobile versions

I find myself a lot of time comparing the game to my last hit game „creepy“ and forcing this game to live up to it. Putting a lot of pressure on it.

Doing a lot of work and then deleting it again.
For example I had 2 levels already in coded where the wizard was young and followed the white rabbit in the magic temple to learn the cloud and fire spell.

I deleted it all because I didn’t like it.