![]() ![]() There's more shady activity from Level One Games. "I'll need to think about it for a bit but most likely I'll ask to get the authors to stop alluding to any affiliation with Superhot." "Somewhere halfway between a Minecraft clone and a Superhot clone, it's innovative enough that I wouldn't regularly mind, but the intentionally deceptive use of our name makes me furrow my eyebrows a bit. On Super Hot 2 specifically, Kaczmarczyk called it "pretty borderline". Getting clones and copycats is kind of an expected side effect of being in the spotlight and I'm a strong believer in the importance of taking those clones down and protecting your fans from confusion." "I already had to take down a couple of mobile games that were built specifically to be confused with Superhot and I'm pretty certain the same thing happens for everybody who gets popular (Vlambeer's Radical Fishing being probably the most spectacular case here). "That being said, there's a fine line between games using the time control mechanics to innovate and create something of value (the SUPERHOTline Miami mashup is a great example) and games that are simply trying to make a quick buck by ripping off and hoping to be confused with existing, popular titles. We'll actually be super happy if that happens and we end up having played a part in unlocking an entirely new set of video game experiences for the whole industry. "When applied properly, the time control mechanics works great for a lot of different game types and we wouldn't be surprised if it ended up spilling into other game genres. "As a general rule, we're feeling really flattered every time a game with the Superhot mechanics pops up," he said over email. ![]() Tomasz Kaczmarczyk, from the Superhot development team (the real one), told Eurogamer he thought Super Hot 2 was "shady to say the least". #SUPERHOT SEQUEL PRO#Try saying Super Hot! - Pocket Builder Lava Sky Lab Pro Edition 2, three times quickly. #SUPERHOT SEQUEL FOR ANDROID#It turns out, Super Hot 2 is the sequel to Level One Games' "Super Hot! - Pocket Builder Lava Sky Lab Pro Edition 2", which was also released on the App Store and for Android devices on 25th August. "Now we are proudly present you our brand new game called Super Hot 2!" We hope that we can work together in the future, and brings quality titles to every gamer," read the email. We would like to promote our game via your site as a review or news. "We are an independent game developer studio from Budapest, Hungary. Level One's Adam Pataki emailed Eurogamer to ask us to cover the game. The developer of Super Hot 2 is Hungary-based Level One Games (its games are published by LumiSys Kft). Super Hot 2 took us by surprise when it landed in our inbox. ![]() It looks almost exactly the same as Superhot, with the same minimalist art style, save the Minecraft-style characters in the levels and rudimentary crafting for weapons. Using a virtual joystick you move from a first-person perspective in a 3D environment, with a button for zoom and another to fire. ![]() Sound familiar? I've played "Super Hot 2", and the gameplay is remarkably similar to Superhot. It costs £1.49 from the App Store, and yes, there are in-app purchases. It's described as a "block shooter where you take control of the time". Super Hot 2, or "Super Hot 2 ! - Block Pocket Build It Mini Lab Edition", to give it its title in full, doesn't seem bothered by such matters. Most lift gameplay and graphics from popular games and slap on a title that's close enough to the source material to dupe people into a download, but different enough to avoid the wrath of lawyers. Mobile game digital stores are flooded with clones, from copies of Super Mario to endless Flappy Bird rip-offs. Super Hot 2 manages to clone the eye-catching first-person time-bending shooter Superhot, and in the same breath rip-off Mojang's block-building phenomenon, Minecraft. Superhot isn't even out yet, but opportunistic developers have already cloned it and released a "sequel" on the App Store. ![]()
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