Indonesian Flash Game Stolen and Copied, Turned Into iPhone and Android App [UPDATED]

Indonesian game developer Elventales Studio has found that its S40 and Flash-based game Chase Burger has been copied and published on iOS and Android under the name Hungry Chase, by May Games. The game developer affected by this wholesale piracy has not only filed a report to Apple regarding this [1], but is also trying to raise awareness of the theft.

[UPDATE 8 hours after posting: Good news! The cloned game has been removed from Google Play totally, and we think it’s gone from every country’s iOS App Store as well. That was quick justice].

Friends of the developer are also helping out by posting negative reviews of the cloned game in the iTunes store. One writes: “You hijack my friends game. Garbage!” Another comments: “This game hijack from Elventales […] original game only for Flash game and Nokia.”

Funnily enough, the copied game even still has the Elventales Studio logo in its iPhone and Android incarnation. Is this somehow a way for the copier to pay tribute to the real game developer, or maybe the copycat developer was simply too lazy to change anything else besides the title and the thumbnail picture? Here’s the genuine game (pictured below, left) side-by-side with the ripped-off version (pictured below, right):