Jason Bailey at Full Indie Jan 2012

Jason Baily, CEO of East Side Games, did a talk at the January 2012 Full Indie meetup. It was a pretty funny and honest talk about social game cloning and other things.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• East Side Games
• Facebook
• Zynga
• Pot Farm
• Full Indie
• indie
• cloning
• games
• social
• virality

[RichardOlpin]

What a thoroughly unpleasant man.

[Drathy]

Did I miss something here? This guy is making fun of Zynga using sarcasm/satire thereby using that same self-deprecation on himself (since he makes similar games). I found it pretty funny. I think the intent is that he was trying to be a douchebag.

[draco18s]

@spyderman4g63 There's a difference between "inspired by" (see: Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress) and "blatant ripoff" (see TripleTown and YetiTown).

[spyderman4g63]

@tallaussiebloke really. You think the average causal gamer is going to care?

[spyderman4g63]

@draco18s this is how the gaming industry has worked for ages. All the popular games are just built on popular concepts of other developers.

[draco18s]

How to ruin your reputation as a game developer: openly admit to plagiarism.

Double Fine is doing just fine making their own ideas (See kck.st /zcwGdv ). So is Board Raptor Games (Twitter: @RaptorCannibal )

[tallaussiebloke]

And with one video, East Side Games lost pretty much all of its potential players.

[TheKungFuProductions]

I agreed to what he said, except when he said Harvest Moon came from China...

Japan dumbass.

[MutantKush]

@sammallory79 You obviously didn't watch the whole thing

[sammallory79]

Also this might of been funny if it wasn't just a sarcastic dick hypocrite. Every flash game is copied.

[sammallory79]

who fucking cares they all make half ass shitty games in which they are all copied. Sarcastic comedy is pathetic when one still continues to drone on....

[EdwardDiego0]

That was satire people. He was deliberately being a douchebag and pretending to be Zygna's CEO. Also, everything he said is correct. There's been a bunch of AMAs on reddit recently from Zygna employees confirming how morally bankrupt this company really is.