The White House Removed Its Border-Wall Tetris Clone
The game, 'Build the Wall,' filtered classic block-stacking mechanics through the Trump administration's immigration policies.
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The White House has removed Build the Wall, a browser-based game where you would stack bricks to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, from its online arcade. The game's removal appears to be in response to public pushback from The Tetris Company, which last week distanced itself from the project and pointed at copyright concerns, given Build the Wall's deliberate similarity to Tetris.
Build the Wall was one of several games the White House introduced on September 3, seemingly to chase the attention crude, policy-themed minigames could grab online. While Build the Wall wasn't the only game clearly ripping off an existing title — Flappy Bill is a clone of Flappy Bird and Rio Run is just Snake — it did stand out because of The Tetris...
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