Chinese indie studio Veewo has a bit of a rocky history. Among the games they've developed is 1024, which they worked on believing they were iterating on the design of Threes!, though many consider it to be a clone. After the release of blatant 1024 clone 2048 and its myriad copycats, however, they decided to take a different tack. Now the company is focused on the creation of original IPs for mobile, starting with the release of Just Get 10, followed by Super Phantom Cat early this year and moving on towards the release of Super Phantom Cat 2 next year.
"I'm going to tell you a story about 2048," says Jason Yeung, CEO of Veewo. "Back in February of 2014, Gabriele Cirulli (an Italian student) emailed us to ask if he could work on a school assignment based on our game, 1024. We agreed and let him study the 1024 codebase.
"The truth is that we never considered 1024 to be a commercial product," Yeung continues. "For us, 1024 was a test of sorts -- an attempt to play with the Threes! formula and find out if we could improve on it."

Veewo didn't get to celebrate what they considered to be a success, though, because Gabriele Cirulli put the code for his clone, 2048, in an open repository on GitHub. Ketchapp used that GitHub repository as a base for their version of 2048 and was only the first of many to clone it after that. Both 1024 and Threes! were subsequently accused of being clones of 2048.

Their next game, Just Get 10, was Veewo...