1. Indy developer releases a game or trailer of a game.
2. Within an extremely short time (days to weeks at most) there are clones on the market.
3. These games often outperform the original.
It's absolutely not something that's gone on for ages.
It might be a novel gameplay idea / twist on a genre, and mere days after launch instead of being able to stand on its own and gather attention it's drowning in a pool of lookalikes. It's no longer distinct.
The speed of being able to slop together something like this is less than 1% of what it used to be.
Is it really? Slop clones of games have been a thing for ages, I’d expext the market to be reasonably resistant by now.
Here's how it's been going:
1. Indy developer releases a game or trailer of a game. 2. Within an extremely short time (days to weeks at most) there are clones on the market. 3. These games often outperform the original.
It's absolutely not something that's gone on for ages.
It might be a novel gameplay idea / twist on a genre, and mere days after launch instead of being able to stand on its own and gather attention it's drowning in a pool of lookalikes. It's no longer distinct.
The speed of being able to slop together something like this is less than 1% of what it used to be.
HN went crazy over 2048, which was a slop clone of Threes, something like 15 years ago.
So yes maybe it happens more often now, but it’s still not new.
> So yes maybe it happens more often now
Yes, that's literally the point of the people you're responding to. Has HN lost reading comprehension, or are you arguing in bad faith?
It used to happen occasionally. Now it happens instantly. That delta is the problem.