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We often hear of indie devs getting their work stolen, sometimes even pixel by pixel. However, this is not that case.
Earlier this week a small indie dev named Hacktic , focused not only on room decoration but also on taking care of plants.
Yesterday, popular asset creator KenneyNL, instead of reaching out to him privately, .
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Soon after, .
It got so bad that .
However, not all people were there to cheerlead. , claiming that even Kenney's game wasn't a particularly original idea nor had a particularly original design (including audio design) to begin with.
So what were the accusations based on exactly? Since KenneyNL is an asset creator, someone asked if Hacktic had used any of his assets. .
Kenney's replies contained everything besides an explanation that made sense. Smug attitude, snarkiness, he even tried to boost his own game under the accusatorial tweet that demolished a small developer's project. Here he's also spreading .
Here he claims that . Remember folks, before using any rounded square menu UI you should write to Kenney, the copyright holder of square UIs.
A while later, .
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In response to the accusation of having "copied the game down to the little sounds", .
However, explanations are not enough. Nothing can pacify the angry mob at this point and the game was set to be DOA. [Backed into a corner, Hacktic was forced to issue a public apology and promised to change his game's art direction] ().
After successfully bullying him into apologizing and modifying his game, KenneyNL .
However, . Once again, notice how KenneyNL never actually explains what exactly has been taken from him, but always resorts to vague replies.
And here, the final act. . He doesn't have .
I wish this to be a warning to indie devs who are just starting out with a particular genre that is either a) too simple and generic, or b) has a lot of different hard coded visual and design philosophies (like horror retro style games). Unfortunately people will throw whatever shit at you if they see you as a threat.
It's not ok for devs to act entitled to an idea, a mechanic, or a specific art style, then try to take down the competition in the "court of public opinion" against smaller devs who can't defend themselves. It's probably been said countless of times but no one owns a game mechanic, an idea, a visual style or a genre. If someone is doing the same to you, or will do the same to you (cohercing you into changing something in your game or even a big chunk of it), please don't be scared or worried. Reach out for help. Let your voice be heard.
EDIT: an was even published after the initial Kenney tweet. They took the accusations at face value and ran with them to write a story. However, the article tries to equate this case with games being "cloned and uploaded on Steam"...
EDIT 2: both KenneyNL and Hacktic have responded in the thread.
Final edit: he says, after calling an emerging dev a plagiarist, unleashing a mob onto him, clarifying things with him and still somehow leaving the accusatory tweet up with 20k likes for self promotion.
Because it’s just that there are cases of games that have gotten some good reviews, but for some reason had quickly faded into obscurity anyway, and today I wanted to discuss such cases.
To start off with an entry, I would like to list the first two Persona games as while the newer ones are very well known, it feels kind of rare to hear about people discussing the PS1 entries as maybe it’s just me, but they seem to have fallen into obscurity as they don’t get as much attention as the newer ones.
Then there is the Risen series by Piranha Bytes as while those games have gotten praise by reviewers online, I don’t see a lot of people talking about the games in general as sometimes I like to play them for being able to explore different kinds of factions, but I cannot find a fandom for them online, although maybe that’s just me.
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When sailing the high seas, I just assumed we should keep quiet of our deeds because it made sense.
The less people know their thing is being pirated, the better, so it has less chance of getting some anti-piracy measures.
But recently, pirating has become, mainstream?
I keep seeing so many people posting about pirating something publicly on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, etc. I feel like this is contributing to the rise of DRM / the frequency of takedowns on useful sites.
Why not shut up?
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