Holiday Jigsaw Easter

Holiday Jigsaw Easter 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 "borrowed" uncredited/plagiarised artwork is [url=https://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-30065384/stock-photo-chihuahua-puppies-and-easter-eggs-in-green-grass]"Chihuahua Puppies And Easter Eggs"[/url], taken from BigStockPhoto. Sure, the image rights may allow the stock image to be used without credit, but 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 copy + pasted this game an insane SEVENTY SIX TIMES onto Steam with minor reskins... why cash in on one asset if you can cash …

I don't even remember buying this but I imagine it was like $.50, and uh. I mean. It's fine, I guess? But I gave up on it fast. I was ok with the stock images but I gotta draw the line at puzzle pieces that don't look like they would fit into their connecting pieces, fitting anyway. It's weird. I do appreciate there being plenty of room to sort the pieces and an extra place to set the excess, but I never needed that because I gave up on this pretty quick.

Full disclosure: I just picked this up on sale for .49 cents USD. And for that price, it's a nice addition to the other titles from the same dev. And it does show some improvements. The puzzles all stay on theme, even if a few are a bit of a stretch, so it is 500 puzzles of Easter-y goodness. You can adjust the number of pieces for each puzzle, and the cut. You can turn the music (which is in a lot of the titles from this publisher) off, and play YT in the background. It does lack some of the bells and whistles such as being able to change out the background, but you can do just the border and have a ghost image to work from. You can even save a puzzle in progress. Overall, on sale it's a nice Easter-themed puzzle set to do as you sip your coffee or tea and listen to ambient music in the background.