I recommend this article about game cloning

This article from Nicole Carpenter about the business of "cloning" games is pretty fascinating. The article's headline is about how AI makes cloning games easier... but the bulk of the article is just about the business of cloning. There have been pretty egregious clone companies operating all over the world for years, and they definitely seem to have had strategies for cranking these games out before the era of LLM coding, too. Some of these clone companies seem to have been relying on reskinned Unity game templates for a big part of their business, for instance. For years I've been thinking about whether my interest in making text-heavy games is smart or stupid. Many text-heavy games play badly with streamers - and if a player learns about their games mainly from streamers, watching a streamer play all the way through your story game isn't going to do much to convince them that they now have to buy it themselves. They know the ending, after all! Text isn't particularly visually…