I've done a lot of game design/development both as a hobby and semi-professionally. I have a rule of thumb for when some person/company says they've created 35 games: almost all of those will have been clones of other games they've played before. Just with superficial differences and tweaks. Almost always what happens is a person/team just re-implements it in a fresh codebase they control. If this is true in OMGPOP's case, it would mean they'd be a perfect fit for Zynga, given their modus operandi discussed so many times on HN recently.
I have another rule for computer/web games in particular. If someone says they've created 35 games it almost always means their small simple Flash games. And again, almost always clones of some other game that already existed. It's very very rare that someone truly designs an original game, from scratch, whether a computer game or board game, etc.
Taking quick look at OMGPOP's site... let's see, clones/reimpls of Checkers, Connect Four, Missile Command... I'll stop now.
I have another rule for computer/web games in particular. If someone says they've created 35 games it almost always means their small simple Flash games. And again, almost always clones of some other game that already existed. It's very very rare that someone truly designs an original game, from scratch, whether a computer game or board game, etc.
Taking quick look at OMGPOP's site... let's see, clones/reimpls of Checkers, Connect Four, Missile Command... I'll stop now.