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Vanar.io – Realtime multiplayer browser game: Agar.io meets Asteroids

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Re: Vanar.io – Realtime multiplayer browser game: Agar.io meets Asteroids

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This is pretty fun :) -- the controls are definitely more challenging than Agar.io, which uses the mouse for movement. I would caution the author to be ready for the possibility of a DMCA letter from Minclip [1], the company that now owns the rights to the game and is aggressively attacking all "clones" of the Agar.io game. Vanar.io seems different enough, but the letter has some strong wording such as "The URL is a deliberate attempt to create a false association with the Agario game, take advantage of the goodwill and reputation in the Agario game and divert users of the Agario game to the URL". Discussion and another example is on reddit [2]. So far the only Agar.io clones sent a letter are ones that directly copied and used the javascript code, so hopefully that's not the case here.

[1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/d028f601f93e201186b4a75b...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Agario/comments/3f7oys/miniclip_sta...

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