Godville is what's known as a ZPG (Zero Player Game) – it's a MMORPG where you – the player – don't actually control the hero in typical RPG way – the hero levels up without player doing any work. The player just sits around and rewards/punishers the hero.
There appear to be two very similar versions of Godville around – an English one (godvillegame.com) and a Russian one (godville.net).
http://godvillegame.com/images/godville_screenshot_en.gif
http://godville.net/images/godville_screenshot_ru.gif
As can be seen from the above screenshots, the two versions seem to be very close, apparently using nearly identical web back-ends (and there are even Andorid clients that can play both).
Please note that content-wise, they are somewhat different – Russian one is nearly 100% culture tropes and puns whereas English one seems to be more standard RPG content.
The question: what is the exact relationship (organizational and software wise) between both games?
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is it really the same exact game ported by the same company to two different markets?
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or is one of them an authorized clone using the same exact software (or starting off from the same software – there seem to be some divergent features) as the original;
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or is one just an unauthorized clone of another?
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Some other option I didn't think of?
Best Answer
They're the same game - the publisher is the same in the Android market: Godville Games Limited.