Played a free browser game exaclty like this years ago

[Champion Æternal]

Why pay more than a buck for this? A review said it was a new concept! It is not!

[Champion Æternal]

I found it, just in case you people want to save your money and play the exact same game minus the mushrooms. http://armorgames.com/play/17751/civilizations-wars-3

[(N☆G) Jackal ★JJ★]

lol basically the exact game, but meh 10$ is 10$ for me. Send those people an email? Who knows what will happen.

[megaDRONe086]

Not exactly the same game. For example you can't control percentage of armies and there is no morale mechanics in Civilizations War as far as I remember. And Civilization Wars is to be more likely our clone because first game in series was released a year after smashing success of Mushroom Wars on PlayStation 3 in 2009.

[Champion Æternal]

One is free, one is not! People said it was a new concept, they are misled

[impreza7]

Originally posted by Vader:

One is free, one is not! People said it was a new concept, they are misled

Did u not read the devs response? Civ. Wars came out AFTER the first mushroom release in 2009. Pretty easy to give the game away when you blatantly copy it.

[Champion Æternal]

Originally posted by impreza7:

Did u not read the devs response? Civ. Wars came out AFTER the first mushroom release in 2009. Pretty easy to give the game away when you blatantly copy it.

How do you know? I doubt the desv researched it. Wasn't the height of browser games around 2007? And civ wars is ONE example. There were probably others well before.

Not paying 10 freakin bucks man. You can get way more original games with mroe content on this platfrom than this rip-off!

[1nvisible]

I doubt you researched it.
Google tells that Civ Wars was released in 2010, while Mushroom Wars – in 2009.
"More content" and "rip-off" parts are also doubtful.

[megaDRONe086]

Well... IMHO Mushroom Wars is much more better balanced and polished compared to Civilizations Wars. Also Mushroom Wars have multiplayer that made it very popular as a PvP game. For example we even had a number of tournaments and we are planing to have them too on Steam later.
So I strongly believe that Mushroom Wars forth it's cost.

Moreover if you guys are so interested in the game origin. The only game with similar gameplay we looked at was Galcon originally created for Ludum Dare (interesting article to read http://ludumdare.com/compo/2007/11/26/galcon/ ). We love this game and wanted to bring more life into it. This is how Mushroom Wars was born. Yes we were inspired by Galcon and took the very core mechanics but evolved and developed it to make a pretty different game. 90% of all other games that were released after 2009 are our clones like Modern Conflict, Land Grabbers, Planets Under Attack and many others... (to eliminate possible further debates, we talked to devs of listed games and they confirm that were inspired by Mushroom Wars).

BTW additionally to what 1nvisible just said.
Original Civilizations Wars: http://www.kongregate.com/games/tjcarlos/civilizations-wars
Original Mushroom Wars: https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/mushroom-wars/cid=UP4073-NPUB30099_00-MUSHROOMS0000000
Follow the links and check release dates.

[Opabinia's proboscis]

Vader looks like a troll

[Gaia004]

Yep, just stop feeding.

[MrKn4rz]

Mushroom Wars is the real Deal. I remember 5+ years ago when we discovered this game in the psn store and me being the only one really liking it. I searched the web for weeks(I never owned a ps3 myself) trying to find anything that was even remotely similar, including the aforementioned 'Civ Wars', 'Land Grabbers' etc, playing them for a while before realizing that they sadly didn't even come close to the brilliance that was Mushroom Wars. I even wrote an email to 'Creat Studios' suggesting to release this game on Steam.

My Point: Basically it all comes down to a very simple aspect as to why this game is so much better than any of the other versions:

Extraordinarily well polished and balanced Mechanics.

Once you play it you know what I mean. I can't wait for Multiplayer and I sure hope its not too late for Mushroom Wars on PC since this unfortunately is now a way overcrowded Platform and it isn't rare these days that even a lot of great gems never get the attention they deserve.

/rant

[Opabinia's proboscis]

^ this, pretty much.