GE: "In the past, we’ve seen iOS and Android games that rip off Nintendo games in not-so-subtle ways. But Era’s Adventures is different. Rather than attempting to copy any particular title, this new Android release takes Yoshi and places the character in a completely different setting."
Five random gaming-apps, five minutes a pop. Here’s what we at VGI made of them.
Please note this is a follow up about the game, with a response from the developers.
"Gaming Everything brought light to this, and posted up articles which were then spread throughout the internet.
We actually asked AnDev why they used Yoshi, we got this reply:"
I'm not sure if I'm understanding this correctly, but it sounds like the guy bought a stuffed animal Yoshi and used him in his game. If that's it, he's still dumb. If I were him, I would think there was a toy company that owned the rights to the design and I wouldn't be allowed to use it.
...no, you're not understanding it correctly. I literally have no clue how you could have gotten that from the article, unless you didn't actually read it. It's stated pretty clearly how he allegedly ended up using Yoshi.
If you're familiar with any sort of business where you might need to buy stock materials, there are sites that host hundreds of thousands of assets for various needs-- images, movie clips, sound, etc. This guy went to a rather popular bank of 3D assets and purchased a set of renders that happened to be Yoshi, claiming he didn't know it was a famous character.
This isn't as shady as it sounds-- huge developers often use stock assets from things like Unreal Engine 3 and so on, as well as most user made mods in games.
The likelihood of him not recognizing Yoshi? It's entirely possible, sure, but if he's developing video games solely on his own, he's got to have some affinity for the medium and I can't fathom how one of the industry's most recognizable faces was lost on him.
Wow put allot of work in to this,tobad its gonna get pulled down from market
Hey look Nintendo has gone 3rd party and are now developing smartphone games.
LOL i kid. Yeah this is going to get pulled down from the market. Shame on them for copying Nintendo.
Downloaded for the lulz.
Guess I should download before this becomes a rare antique.
Downloaded the free demo, and it sucks too much for even Yoshi... I mean Era to save it.