King Candy Crushes Developers, The Saga

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Hey Newgrounds,

King (creaters of Candy Crush Saga) have been maing headlines as of late due to their trademarking of the word "Candy". On top of that, evidence has come forward that they knowingly ripped off / cloned a game in 2009, which has been getting a lot of buzz around the internet. Im the developer who was contracted for cloned game, and have since been contacted by news outlsets such as GameInformer, VentureBeat, and Gameasutra.

King has been caught red handed lying about its past, while it continues to use its massive legal weight to bully game developers. This story is extremely important to the future rights of all content creators, especially game developers, and I'd love to get as much attention to this as possible.

For the full story, read th original article by Mathew Cox, or check out my personal write up. Please chime in and help spread the word. Thanks for being an awesome member of the Newgrounds community, and for taking the time to read this,

UPDATE #1 I'm now front-paged on Gamasutra, you can read the full article here.

-Matt Porter

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Gianni 2014-01-27 09:37:55

Most phone games are at their core complete rip-offs of the cookie cutter bullshit that nobody likes on here, and nobody HAS liked on here for a long time.

Just a shame one of the developers had the balls to think they were hot shit because a bunch of people were amused on the toilet.

BoMToons 2014-01-27 10:42:11

So, YOU were the one! ;-)

Matt-Porter 2014-01-27 10:42:11

Indeed I was! I didn't notice your comment until now, thanks for stopping by.

BoobMarley 2014-01-27 14:13:41

It's not like we're talking about the secret, original creator of a work of art here. Candy Crush can suck my balls.

deathink 2014-01-27 20:09:06

Dude, I just read a post that said they also tried to trademark the word "SAGA" when referring to games... I don't know them personally, but that is real lame if that is true.

DieterTheuns 2014-01-27 20:14:15

Should you want revenge of sorts and have time to spare; people have organized a Candy Jam, where people make games about candy! :)

http://itch.io/jam/candyjam

Matt-Porter 2014-01-27 20:14:15

I have a game with Candy as a theme in the works. I'll see about getting it to completion for the jam!

ReNaeNae 2014-04-13 12:13:47

Happy User of the Day! :D

Matt-Porter 2014-04-13 12:13:47

I accept this honor, and wear it proudly.

kazumazkan 2014-04-14 01:04:49

if you want full attention you should post it all over facebook twitter youtube etc.

Matt-Porter 2014-04-14 01:04:49

Oh, it got attention,trust e haha. It got front paged on Frobes, GameInformer, Gamespot, and a couple hundred other sites - I got over 700k visitors to my site in 24 hours, which crashed it for the day.

kazumazkan 2014-04-14 08:50:19

haha thats good as long as it got the message through.