A game isn’t any good if nobody rips it off, and so I present the inevitable Puzzle Quest clones! Spandex Force is the first high production value clone I’ve seen. It’s your standard try/buy model, but I wonder if anyone will go for another model– buy new levels, incorporate it into an existing world with micropayments, and so on.

I haven’t played Spandex Force, but the game’s creator blogs about its design, including many of the ways in which it differs from Puzzle Quest. It’s still clearly Bejeweled + spells, but I do wonder if it has some successful innovations.  (I wonder unjustifiably, since there is a free demo available.)

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