The other day I was showing my friend my latest game idea when he told me something horrible.
A game already existed with an extremely similar concept.
I’m not kidding when I say that I had no idea this other game existed. I merely took an idea I had been thinking about for a few years and finally made a prototype. So now what? I can’t release this if people are just gonna say I ripped off this other game, when I had never even heard of it.
The game plays like this:
When you press left shift, you switch between the positive and negative space in a confined area.
Here’s a rough webplayer concept demo to better explain it.
Here’s the game that my friend showed me
So needless to say, I am quite devastated.
Do you think the two games are too similar?
My game has physics which makes things more interesting, and is also played in first person.
Edit: My game also takes place in 3 dimensions (not really evident in current demo though)
Has this ever happened to anyone else?
Should I have to give up on my game just because someone else also independently thought up a similar idea?