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Copy maps are a classification of maps consisting of copied versions of other highly successful maps. Participating accounts, often referred to as "copiers", change the appearance of a map - colourwise and/or themes are usually changed - in the copying process. The game-play is typically left subtly, if not entirely, unchanged.
Copied maps[]
Slingshot (also referred to as "WWE"), one of the most copied maps.
This is a copy of a swing map.
Major copy trends throughout the history of Bonk.io include:
Note that some of the links may be for the basis map for the copy trend rather than a page dedicated to the trend itself.
Symbols at the end of each mention of the list:
^ = It is currently being actively copied on a widespread scale.[]
* = It used to be copied on a widespread scale, but the copying has either died down significantly as of recently, or has been forgotten about entirely. []
- Battle for the swing *
- Duck and Cover *
- Hotel ^
- WWE (Slingshot) ^
- Slides *
- Push The Ball ^
- Garbage Crusher *
- Axes and Hammers *
- Futuristic Slide Thing *
- Hurdles *
- Dragons *
- 1v1 Flat Maps ^
- Gang Grounds 2.0 ^
- Hide and Seek *
- Parkour Floors *
- Deathball *
- Death Arrow Arenas ^
- Vehicle Rides ^
Response from map-making community[]
Copying maps is often highly discouraged and frowned upon by map-making communities, to the point where mapmakers insert notices inside their maps to not copy. Mapmakers, especially those whose maps are commonly copied, have found map copying to be an act of plagiarism and theft, noting that the only features that are commonly changed are the themes and colors.
Oftentimes, copy maps can have more upvotes than the original basis maps themselves, most famously with Trollbeeb2's copies of the apstp's original slingshot map in the former Flash-based Bonk.io.
People have observed that having one's map become the center of a copying trend may be one of many reasons why notable mapmakers, such as Yossho, retired as result. Knowing that such a trend is capable of tarnishing others' reputations, mapmakers, such as World of Planes and antidonaldtrump, multiple have created maps (shown below) to protest against the acts of plagiarism and the lack of originality.
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