Holiday Jigsaw Christmas

Holiday Jigsaw Christmas is a basic browser/Flash/mobile-app like jigsaw puzzle game. Solve various jigsaw puzzles made up from images that the "developer" stole off the Internet and used without crediting the actual creators, making this plagiarism, as well as an asset flip and a cash grab. An example of the stolen, uncredited/plagiarised artwork is [url=https://www.cakepicturegallery.com/v/gingerbread-men-cookies-pictures/Gingerbread+cookies+full+decorated.PNG.html]"Gingerbread Cookies Full Decorated"[/url], stolen and used without any apparent permissions or rights from CakePictureGallery. Sure, the image rights may allow some stock images to be used without credit (although there's no reason to believe so in this case), and claiming credit for the work of others, as is happening here, is unethical, and the creative and intellectual bankruptcy going on here is unacceptable. So what we have here is a basic jigsaw puzzle engine that's been skinned with a bunch of photos stolen off the internet and used without attribution. The icing on the cake is the "developer" here has copy + pasted + reskinned this same asset onto Steam [i]a lot[/i]. The developer, Creobit/8Floor, has c…

Full disclosure: I got this on sale for .90 cents USD. And that would be the top price I'd pay if no changes are made. The photos this time were a mixed bag, some being really pretty and some looking like personal holiday photos. A few were just OK to me, but given everything going on lately it's a nice attempt. However, the game has a bug where after the first set of puzzles you always warp back to the first set. So you can complete a puzzle in the second set, and when you exit, you have to tab back to the second set of puzzles. Thankfully, it saves the page you were on at least. I usually don't flip reviews, but if the bug were fixed it would be worth full price as all the usual bells and whistles are here.

Sound: 8 Graphics: 7 Story: 6 Gameplay: 8 Commands: 9 Fun: 6 Time to load / lag: 9 Bugs / Problems: 9 Final score: 6