Tiny Tower Developers Blast Zynga for Ripping Off Their Game

The guys over at NimbleBit are a bit upset with Zynga, and it looks like they have a right to be. You see, NimbleBit came out with this little iPhone game called Tiny Tower. Perhaps you’ve heard of it?

The game was picked by Apple as iOS Game of the Year. The game also has .

Zynga, the company behind Farmville, , and numerous other iOS games, tried to buy out NimbleBit recently, but NimbleBit turned them down.

Perhaps feeling a bit scorned, Zynga has come out with a new game called Dream Heights, which just so happens to look a lot like Tiny Tower – and I mean a LOT.

NimbleBit co-founder Ian Marsh tweeted the following message as confirmation of the ripoff attempt:

“@NissaCam @nicholsonb They did go the honest route and try to acquire us first.”

Now, they’ve gone and tweeted the following, which really seems to hammer home the point, don’t you think?

You’d think with all the money they make off of their mediocre games, Zynga could hire someone with an original idea or two. Hey, why reinvent the wheel when you can just ripoff other games, right?

Sounds completely fair.