Doeo is a rip-off of Takahiro Miyazawa’s wonderfully crazy game “Moai no Su”, featuring pretty much identical game mechanics but instead of brown moais (you know, those odd Easter Island statues), pink “doeos”. Since I first played it on Shockwave’s Japanese site in February 2007, it’s been featured on Jayisgames and become known to a somewhat broader audience.
Broader as in broader outside of Japan, because “Moai no Su” has not only been featured on a Japanese TV show but was also one of four winners in the Indies category of the Japan Game Awards 2006 (an earlier, less advanced version of the game, nonetheless).
So, ripping off an award-winning game hardly known outside of Japan, that IS rather sneaky, I have to admit. To make things worse, I actually started working on Doeo the very same week Moai no Su was released on Shockwave, and at first thought I would be able to finish it in a week. Ah, how many times have I not overestimated my productivity. In the end, it took a whole year before I sent out a somewhat finalized version to different gaming websites.
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