Virtual Date with Keeley

[Greebo]

If this game is still published on the Android Market (but I was unable to locate it today) and you Phreaky and Tlaero want it to be removed, please let me know.

On droydate.blogspot.com

virtual date with keeley
the parent game to the daydream one has now been posted as well:

http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplicati ... ith_Keeley

[outrider]

But is seems to be free?

[tlaero]

It's just a search engine. It finds this site, it finds that site, it doesn't host anything. Attacking a search engine for showing links is like blaming a sidewalk for counterfeiters setting up tables with fake Gucci bags.

I'm not referring to the search engine. I'm referring first to Youtube, where they host a ton of stolen material and profit from people watching it. I referring second to Android, which is full of stolen intellectual property, so much so that most Android OEMs need to pay all the people Google stole from to use Android. That's not to mention that the things Google actually wrote in Android are just a blind copy of everything Apple did. And don't get me started on what they do with your personal data, whether you like it or not. No, I'm not a fan.

Tlaero

[tlaero]

If this game is still published on the Android Market (but I was unable to locate it today) and you Phreaky and Tlaero want it to be removed, please let me know.

Yes, I would definitely like for it to be removed. Thanks Leo.

Tlaero

[jfrancois323]

the others solutions could be to include your name in every (or almost all) picture of the game, at different places. the thieves should be in obligation to cut them to use them.

at least, i think it could be a solution !!

[Greebo]

It's just a search engine. It finds this site, it finds that site, it doesn't host anything. Attacking a search engine for showing links is like blaming a sidewalk for counterfeiters setting up tables with fake Gucci bags.

I'm not referring to the search engine. I'm referring first to Youtube, where they host a ton of stolen material and profit from people watching it. I referring second to Android, which is full of stolen intellectual property, so much so that most Android OEMs need to pay all the people Google stole from to use Android. That's not to mention that the things Google actually wrote in Android are just a blind copy of everything Apple did. And don't get me started on what they do with your personal data, whether you like it or not. No, I'm not a fan.

Tlaero

I think you are being rather unfair to Google there, Tlaero. Android is not only not a copy of anything Apple did, but Google bought the company that developed it initially and built it up as a free and open source mobile device OS around a Linux kernel. I suggest you set your prejudices to one side and look at the wikipedia entry for Android, and while you're at it check out the litigation history of Apple, Microsoft and Oracle against this free, open source OS -- strange that these mutually antagonistic leviathans should get in bed together to carry out a patents war against a lively, innovative competitor rather than trying to out innovate it! http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/ ... droid.html

(Edit: Actually the main war appears to be not so much against Android or Google, but rather against the device manufacturers who have the temerity to obtain licenses to use Android. Clever eh? Buy our OS and we won't tie you up in legal red tape and insist on you forking out for the dubious patents we claim the free OS is using. Saves actually taking Google to court and risking their lawyers giving us a drubbing.)

[Blackduck666]

Now I have been following along on this whole thing, and as much as I agree that it sucks that Keeley got violated... the people who did it picked two of the best games to do it with, and that counts for something.

What I am a little concerned about, is that I don't think I have heard Phreaky weigh in on all this. I know I would put the female in charge of discussion as well, but what's going through Phreaky's head?

[phreaky]

Well, sorry I haven't followed this (most of my time is dedicated to finish Life with Keeley )

Actually, I have found this quite a long time ago, while I was googling for "virtual keeley" I found out that someone host an android apps for the game
But since I thought it's for free, then I didn't think much about it to be honest

So is it free ?

[tlaero]

strange that these mutually antagonistic leviathans should get in bed together to carry out a patents war against a lively, innovative competitor rather than trying to out innovate it!

The same could be said of this guy who is using my Keeley games. Why should I care that he's stealing my stuff when I could instead be trying to out innovate him? What seems to be lost on the Google and open source fans is that it's really hard to "out innovate" someone who just takes your innovations and claims them as his own.

I don't make a living selling Keeley games (obviously) but I do make a living creating and selling intellectual property. And I can say, with first hand experience, that Google steals intellectual property like there's no tomorrow.

Tlaero

[Greebo]

You surprise me! I've seen something of the other side of the coin -- still let's agree to differ.

[ExLibris]

It cuts both ways, since larger corporations also have to deal with patent trolls (who have cost companies half a trillion dollars in the last twenty years)

At least there was a happy ending in this case.

[Duke]

The medium and hard level buttons don't appear to be active. I can only play at the easy level.

[Greebo]

I don't want to worry you, Tlaero, but I think the moron who modded your and Phreaky's games for Android won't be able to stuff the genie back in the bottle (and what is more Google and Android can't really be blamed for this because andappstore.com appears to be independent, with no real checks and regulations, whereas for anything wrongfully found on Android Market or any other Google product you can fill in a content removal form if you have the evidence to back up your claim. http://www.google.com/support/bin/stati ... ts=1114905 )

The main problem is that the apps the moron produced and let loose have to all intents and purposes gone viral -- they seem to be available from all sorts of download sites as far as I can tell from a little investigative Googling.

[Beherit]

Hello !

sorry to ask the same question but can we get information about the new game ?
if it's almost finished or not (a release date ? ♥), the size (approximately), if you find a solution against piracy ?

Thank you.
Bye.

[tlaero]

When we're ready to tell more about the next game, we will be sure to. Nothing new to report at this time.

Tlaero