Capcom copied Splosion Man - Twisted Pixel dev

I'm not sure if Capcom was just the publisher and was working with an independent developer or if Capcom made the game themselves.

Big company like Capcom should be ashamed of them selves for ripping off a small company, an i " had " respect for them since the begining ( atari 2600 days) do the right thing Capcom

Imitation is the greatest form of compliment. As long as you do your idea better than anybody else, it'll sell better.

Dirty move, Capcom.

Capcom vs Twisted Pixel.... Round 1, Ready... Fight!... Knockout... Capcom you lose... Continue?

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Tsk tsk tsk.Capcom what have you become?I once adored the company you were,as i'm sure many others did as well. You made the games people wanted to play.Now you steal the ideas from other companies that make games people want to play?Oh how you have fallen from grace.I side with T.P. on this one. Stick to the fighting games Capcom.

Capcom should simply stick to street fighter or perhaps MvC3. After botching lost planet 2 im pissed with them.

Wow would think that a japanese giant like Capcom wouldnt take this route after Steet Fighter had been copied so many times. I am with Twisted Pixel on this one.

Who cares.... all I care for is the fact that MvC3 is olny a month or so away :D

Epic fail on Capcom's part...

It really doesn't matter, Splosion Man is a classic and as long as they improve on it, it already has a name. Capcom will probably make their game too hard core and not classic enough to make a name for itself.

Here's an idea, make "Splosion Man for Droid and have it be better than the iPhone one in any way. The challenge is before you guys.

They should just sue them and get their money. lol!! It's obviously a copy cat game. Capcom just didn't want to pay Twisted Pixel for it. What a bunch of thieves.

I'm on Twisted Pixel's side on this, but Wilford is looking like a major tool with that statement. You don't act like a tough guy and mock the other side with a complete lack of wit. He sounds like an angry 6th grader.

how many games copied streetfighter. how many fighter games have ryu clones and throw hadokens. everybody steals from everybody. this sounds like every other copy infingement lawsuit. games workshop sue blizzard and actividion again please.

GET THE F'k OUT OF HEREWITH "As of press time, Capcom has not provided a comment addressing the games' similarities." STORY CHARACTER GAMEPLAY ALL THE SAME!

I definitely smell a lawsuit coming. Twisted Pixel MAY say that there's no lawsuit coming, but that doesn't mean people smell something happening in the future.

If you needed any more proof that Capcom have been a joke since 2007 than this is it.

Eh, maybe a crossover is in order?

This is just so wrong.

@Black_Knight_00 Capcom never went after SNK because SNK never outright stole any of their ideas. SNK games where of the same genre, but any fan of fighting games from that time period would be able to see the differences. And both companies did the smart thing years later in joining together to make one hell of a killer fighting game series anyway (although one is superior to the other). And I do remember that Capcom did go after some company (data east I believe? Help me out here Old Heads!!!) in the early 90's for an arcade fighter, which they contested about something in a similar manner to what this article says. It's funny that almost 20 years later they would resort to the same dirty tactics :?

Splosion Man and MaXplosion will soon get along fine--just like Dan Hibiki and Ryo Sakazaki.

Im surprised to see this from Capcom the characters have slight changes but the stance and facile expression look like something from splosion man.

Wow, this is what passes for news nowadays? I'm just looking down this page and laughing at all of the apparent corporate critics giving their social commentary on something they have never been part of, I love how deluded the human race is :L Get real people, this is menial and pathetic, none of you should care.

Well if everything the article says is true, it's undoubtedly a complete rip off. Pathetic, Capcom. You were the ones who said Japanese developers were falling behind. This is not the way to get ahead.

This sums it up well......... Twisted Pixel CEO Michael Wilford says his comparatively tiny team won't be suing mega-publisher Capcom for its blatant attempt to rip off the studio's Splosion Man with iOS clone MaXplosion (pictured). "We're definitely not going to pursue legal action," Wilford told Joystiq. "While I think the similarities are pretty nauseating, we're too small to take on a company like Capcom. That, and we owe them one for inventing Mega Man, so we'll let them slide." "We just need to keep our heads down making the next thing so that Capcom has something to steal next year,"

WOW. I've not played MaXplosion... but I've played Splosion Man (and loved it) but this does seem very close to a rip off... especially considering that Twisted Pixel pitched their game to Capcom who passed on it... showing that someone at Capcom had seen this concept before MaXplosion hit. On the flip side, this sort of thing is not unheard of. Look at Gameloft who has made a mint by making games that are basically off brand versions of other games. They have made games "inspired" by Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Castlevania, Grand Theft Auto, Diablo, Modern Warfare just to name a few. And you don't see them catching much heat for it... It is the way of things. It may be wrong. But it is pretty rampant in entertainment for companies to try to copy what has been successful properties from their competitors.

On the other hand, Capcom never complained too much about all the Street Fighter knockoffs SNK and others churned out in all these years. Still naughty

Twisted Pixel should make Mega Dude the pacifist robot !!!

imitation is the highest form of flattery...... if capcom is copying twisted pixel that it just goes to show how low capcom has slumped twisted pixel should sue or just bring out a street fighter clone as a big F U to them heh heh heh

"As of press time, Capcom has not provided a comment addressing the games' similarities." Of cousre they haven't said anything. There's nothing to say. It'd be ridiculus to deny this.

Sue SUE!!!!!

@mjc0961 I'd say get things straight first. Twisted pixel has only been around for four years or so and has come out with three pretty respectable arcade titles, all very original. The Maw, Splosion Man, and Comic Jumper have all done well for them selves and all were released in only two years which is pretty interesting considering how diverse they are. Sometimes people like making sequels, it happens. Ever heard of Bungie and their sequels, and then going 2 games beyond it? The whole point is get your info straight before you start vomiting on the boards because you didn't like Splosion Man. I'm not even much of a fan but I think were all sick of these big video game company's stealing ideas and eating up the recent start ups because they provide actual competition and move the industry forward.

i cant find the game in itunes. wonder if it was already taken down. I am on the Japanese iTunes store (I live in Japan) but 99.5% of ALL aps are in both stores. It is VERY rare for an app not to be offered in Japan. has anyone else found it on the USA store?

I'm kind of shocked that a big name like Capcom would resort to ripping off other games.

Well let's slap Capcom on the wrists for their wrong, MVC3 will fix everything....... Seriously though You would think that with games like MVC3, DMC, RE6 and other Capcom games coming up they would have better things to do aside from copying other games.....

Now THIS is a legitimate example of copyright infringement.

From Capcom to Copycom.

Thieves.

Noooooooo, Capcom why!?!! Don't compromise your honor for mobile phone gaming! Come on! To have passed on it to the developers and then to release it on another platform is doubly stupid. I hope they offer proper compensation to Twisted Pixel for this transgression, or they shall forever lose respect points in my book.

I'm up for more games like Splosion man. It's a unique platformer, humourous, and has great co-op. However, I think it's awful that they have such an obvious rip off. I'm fine with the jump mechanic being the same, it works well, however give a different reason for being allowed to jump like that, don't have the same story, and don't have a similar title.

That's pretty sad. How desperate do you have to be to rip off a game as simple as that? Or maybe whoever sat in at the meeting at Capcom had a dream about the idea for the game and forgot that he booted the people out who pitched it to him and thought it was his own. Stranger things have happened.

@payne6705 Um it hasnt even been almost 2 years. Splosion Man was released 2 years ago but MaXplosion was released last week.

yeah. fail... kinda makes me want to download the game before they take it off the store. I mean... I liked Splosion Man so I should like the copy right? but yeah... it seems like capcom totally dropped they ball. I mean the guys who made Splosion man actually showed CAPCOM this game and they said no. if it was some company who never met with Twisted Pixel it would be a different story.

T_T if anything they copied portal, and N+ not this game. Plus like why wait almost 2 years to complain about it now?

So its okay if I release a game about a guy that really is a robot in turquoise suit that absorbs the mannerisms of the robots que fights? I call it Mega Guy.

Capcom went from a Hadoken to a Hadocan't

Fail Capcom :P

splosion man is awesome. so is the maw. bring on ms splosion man. its awesome.