Never a nice thing to write about, but important to know. It turns out the newly released Generic Space Shooter is using content taken from the indie game Starsector.
I spoke with the developer of Starsector who allowed me to publish this email:
The artwork in question is this:
The artwork is from a mod of Starsector which uses assets from the original game, and when confronted in the email shown above the developer of Generic Space Shooter claims they are from elsewhere.
Alex said he has filed takedown requests on Steam and other stores, but the game is still up on Steam right now.
Hopefully Steam and other stores will do the right thing.
If you haven't checked out Starsector already, you really should. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I spoke with the developer of Starsector who allowed me to publish this email:
The artwork in question is this:
The artwork is from a mod of Starsector which uses assets from the original game, and when confronted in the email shown above the developer of Generic Space Shooter claims they are from elsewhere.
Alex said he has filed takedown requests on Steam and other stores, but the game is still up on Steam right now.
Hopefully Steam and other stores will do the right thing.
If you haven't checked out Starsector already, you really should. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I could understand stealing a sprite during internal testing as a stand-in, but I cannot accept releasing with stolen content.
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Well, it's possible the dev did pay for them, but the "freelance artists" on upwork stole the work. Original dev should reluctantly, but swiftly comply with the take-down in that case. The art itself looks like it's well documented work by Alex Mosolov on his devblog/website.
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natewardawg Mar 14, 2016
Quoting: scaineWell, it's possible the dev did pay for them, but the "freelance artists" on upwork stole the work. Original dev should reluctantly, but swiftly comply with the take-down in that case. The art itself looks like it's well documented work by Alex Mosolov on his devblog/website.
Agreed.
I was doing a project for a client about a year ago and the client had initially outsourced the game to another dev shop. Turns out that this dev shop had ripped off almost all of the UI artwork from a very high profile game. Fortunately, the client's son was playing the other game and the client noticed the artwork was the same as his game. Thus, we changed out all of the UI artwork before releasing the game, including the artwork that we weren't sure whether it was from another game or not. We just assumed all of the UI was ripped off just to be safe.
Moral of the story, it may not be the owner of "Generic Space Shooter"'s fault, but he should definitely get an update with their own original artwork soon!
Last edited by natewardawg on 14 March 2016 at 9:25 pm UTC
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@liam no offence, but is it wise to not blank out, their email addresses ?
Last edited by sunbeam4 on 15 March 2016 at 8:34 am UTC
Last edited by sunbeam4 on 15 March 2016 at 8:34 am UTC
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Well, um . . . art snitched from other games, can't get much more "generic" than that, right?
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I think it was a bit to straightforward to fill out a DMCA takedown request right away before contacting the developer, who might not know that he uses the artwork illegally. As far a I know this request can result in complete removal from a store and it is often hard to put the game up again. Of course it is not right to use art illegally, but it seems like the developer was cheated as well from people selling the art.
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