Same game on Google Play How?

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Hi everbody.

i have a subject that i am really wondering.

I am seeing so many same game in play store.

like these

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miniclip.eightballpool

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.pool.billiards.v1d

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sportsgame.ball.pool.free

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mplay.billiards.ball8.pool.free

these are same billiards games but different developers. how can this be?

these are the same person but different accounts or what?

thanks in advance.

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this are completly different games … why should this be strange ?
Do you think that there is only one pool ball game out there in whole play store ?

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Those games are different! What is their similarity??

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Hi

thanks for your answers.

BUt for me these are the same.

Because they have same logic.You can adjust the ball by hand and touching point is drawing a circle and gui is 99% same.

Just colors are different and some gui parts.

the point i wonder is “is the source code being sold in anywhere?”

thanks in advance.

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Although I don’t know if these games are using the same code, I have seen it happen with other games. I think what happens is, an outsourced company is tasked with creating a game, however the contract for creating the game may not be exclusive. Or it may be exclusive for 1 year only. So after such time, the creators of the game can sell their code to another buyer. This buyer may change small parts of it and re-use it.

Another possibility is an employee steals the code and attempts to sell it to another company, without the buyer knowing that it is copyrighted.