More Play Store piracy

I wrote about this back in April. I do not browse the Play Store all that often -- once a month, maybe a bit more -- and I found another one a couple days ago. The game is the property of Mateusz Skutnik, an artist and Flash programmer lauded by escape gamers for his atmospheric, brain-twisting Submachine series.

I notified Mateusz and he confirmed that the developer did not have permission to port his work to Android. He'll be taking action on it.

Because the games they steal are by different developers, pirates' offerings are going to be very diverse in visual style. A developer making his or her own apps will have a certain style, probably more clearly seen in games than other apps. Widgets such as control buttons and menu styles will be re-used, and the flow from one activity to the next will likely have the same feel.

The ad load of a pirated game will be high. That's one thing that you can count on, because the game is free and this is the sole means of revenue.

It would be interesting if Google, with its advanced abilities to search images for faces and general concepts, applied this to the Play Store.