When he started chatting with Terry Brash, indie game developer kindanice thought he was just exchanging tips with fellow developers. He did not know that his new acquaintance was going to take his entire game, too.

Kindanice related this story to PC Gamer on DMS this week and shared a screenshot of the conversation with Brash who did not respond to a request for comment. 

The two developers first chatted more than a year ago:kindanice was a fan of the Brash game Gunrun, and Brash was a fan of the Kindanice game Dia-Deck, which was the first game of the game.上で公開されitch.io ... The developers exchanged their coding knowledge and Brash invited kindanice to his game developer Discord server.

A year has passed, and this week Brash sent a Discord DM to kindanice to share some cool news: he duplicated Dire Decks with a new engine, added some new features, renamed Wildcard, and posted it on Steam under his own name.

This is not one of the grey area situations where one game derives its basic design from another, but also brings its own look and spirit to the table The game is almost visually identical, and when Brash himself introduced Wildcard to Kindanice, he called Wildcard a "rewrite" and a "clone" of Dire Decks.

Kindanice was startled: flattering, perhaps, but confused. If he really thought it was okay to take the art and concept of a miserable deck and put it on steam under his own name without permission, he asked if kindanice wanted a credit for "inspiration", noting that the code was original and wanted to redraw the artwork.

"Bro... There's "inspiration" and it's blatantly copying the whole game," kindanice replied.

The question of whether copyright laws protect Dire Decks emerged. Brush was not convinced of it, but admitted that he was not a lawyer. Kindanice said cocky that he felt he had a case, but that changing the tack and copying his game, regardless of what the law says, was not a cool thing, and that his other developer friends were shocked and made strange by it.

"I'm confused, what's weird here?"Brush replied. "I liked the game, so I cloned it with extra stuff. Daily buddy happens.

Kindanice asked Brash to remove the wildcard steam, and Brash refused. Kindanice then suggested that Brash's reputation would be damaged when the public found out what he had done, but Brash was not upset.

"The decision has been made," Brush said. "I accept my destiny."

It was the last direct communication between the two developers. 3 May, kindanice is X.

"@terrybrash is copying my game 'dire decks' and releasing it on steam under a different name without my permission," the developer said. "I tried to get him to take the game down, but he doesn't want to do that. Not sure what to do in this situation..."

Brash continued to promote wildcards for X after being called by kindanice. He also posted an edited clip of the "bold and cheeky" Spongebob episode in which his profile picture was dropped in the trash - what he says it is Wildcard remains listed on Steam in the demo and Brash will be free upon release.

Kindanice is currently working on his own extended Steam version of Dire Decks. He is considering making a copyright claim against Wildcard, but says he would still prefer it if Brash voluntarily removed the game from steam. あなたは彼の上に悲惨なデッキとkindaniceの他のゲームの現在のバージョンを見つけることができますitch.io Page.