u/ThatOneDudio

Coming for a trip and I want to watch the Egypt game, where to go?

Hello, I'm basically building out some minigames and some of them are quite similar to WarioWare style games. I'll give an example one of them is basically just a copy of the log chopping minigame but I did multiple phases.

In another game copied from Shantae series she runs horizontally on the screen and throws things to hit items that loop at the top in an oscillating fashion. Is it fine to use that same format?
Are these types of small things protected by copyright? How different/similar can it be? Thank you