A little while ago, Destructoid discovered that the next game in Gaijin Games’Bit.Tripseries would be titledBit.Trip RUNNER. Thanks to a low-res screenshot of the game in ourmost anticipated Wii Games of 2010 listyesterday, we also learned that the game will most likely be a sidescroller.
This is anoutrage.
You may have heard of a little game that took the Internet by storm a few months back. A game that set the World Wide Web positivelyablazewith buzz and critical acclaim, garnering overone hundred downloadsand at leasttwolinks from places other than Destructoid and my own Twitter account. That game was made by myself, Jonathan Holmes, and Ashley Davis. It was, of course, calledRunner. It can be downloadedhere.
And now thesepricksfrom Gaijin Games are releasing a game with the exact same name, belonging to the exact same gameplay genre. They want to latch onto the unbridled popularity and downrightworld-changingmechanics ofRunnerthat were in no way ripped off fromBattletoadsorPassage. And I won’t goddamn stand for it.
“But,” you may be thinking, “but what if Gaijin Games had never heard of your game and the titles are just a coincidence?” Sure, I would reply. A reasonable question…were it not for the fact thatGaijin Games’ very own Alex Neuse reviewedRunnera few weeks after its release. I demandvengeance.
For this reason, I have decided toturbo-sueGaijin Games for a breach of some sort of law or contract or thing that I will determine at a later date. My lawyer and I will litigate Neuse and his cohorts intooblivion. When the dust and legalese have settled, you can be assured that only oneRunnershall remain.
