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Tetra for iOS - my new Letterpress-inspired board game app

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Re: Tetra for iOS - my new Letterpress-inspired board game app

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Does this app share any code with Letterpress or did you re-create the UI elements/interactions?

No code was shared. I wrote my own UIKit layer to accomplish the UI (whereas Loren used a 100% OpenGL implementation for Letterpress).

Re: Tetra for iOS - my new Letterpress-inspired board game app

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I'd say it's more that inspired by...

s'ok - I showed Loren before it launched, and he was cool with it :)

for the sake of your own brand, I'd iterate that design so it doesn't look like a carbon copy. Either people will assume you ripped him off, or that it's another of his games, not yours.

Re: Tetra for iOS - my new Letterpress-inspired board game app

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How is this game different from Quarto [1]? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarto_(board_game)

It's not :) It is an app version of the same game. You're the first person who has made that connection in months of beta testing and showing people the app. I'm sure other people will recognize it as well, but I don't think it's as recognizable as was, say, Words With Friends was an app version of Scrabble.
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