It can fill that scrabulous-shaped whole in your heart.

Title: Scrabulous Bites the Dust (here’s the inside scoop… we think?)

URL: http://brianzafron.com/blog/?p=3

@ Miquel: I buy and play boardgames regularly, because they offer one thing their online versions dont: REAL interaction with my friends, you know speech with facial expressions, emotions, loose talk. And if you mention webcams I’ll smash your face

Trying to get those last few games completed here. I am SOOO close to the leader board. Please, Hasbro, just give me another 30-45 minutes.

There is no copyright on the game itself or the rules, just the look and design and the actual rules document.

So, in order for Scrabulous to avoid infringing, they simply have to change the design of their tiles, the value of the points per letter and the layout of the board. It wouldn’t be the end of the world, the current scrabble board pisses me off! And it’s not like real Scrabulous fans are going to be playing Scrabble anymore.

Mickey Mouse, Scrabble, Pac Man. We should be able to put them all together into a bastardization of a game/theme park/cartoon.

The idea is to promote innovation. There comes a time when these laws hinder innovation.

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I hope this serves as a wake-up call to Hasbro to get their acts together and create online versions of their other board games. Who buys their physical board games anyways?

So in the example of Pacman, which had some of the most famous IP theft cases, the only one where they successfully persecuted was in the case where the Pacman clone used an exact copy of the ghosts from the game. Other clones, which had completely different art, even if the game play was identical did not suffer.

Seems like the only way that Zynga can be sued is if the look and feel of the game is too close to the Hasbro originals.

my app: http://ubc.facebook.com/apps/a.....2397701323

Hasbro should pony up a few million for this online game and thank the folks that singlehandedly put them into a hot hot market.

In the face of dizzying profits for online gaming companies, scrabulous is the best thing to happen to Hasbro since Mr. Potato head.

Strangely enough, they had no problem with the fact that Babble was essentially Boggle (a game which they also own). Who knows…

When scrabulous people contacted Hasbro, they didn’t even bother to reply. Now when they have suddenly woken up and feeling the heat, they demand it’s closure or sell out.

How much would the initial license have cost? and how much is it in damages now, if Hasbro intends to claim?

Good call, I’m an idiot.

Peter (#3), I personally don’t mind your selfpromotion (since you don’t attempt to hide who you are), but where is the Facebook version of your game? The reason for Scrabulous’ success is the combination of a good game and the ability to play it with friends and family, and to make new friends. The original scrabulous.com site was only used only by a handful of players. I’m never going to download anything explicitly, especially something that runs only on Windows.