The community of indie development is known for being friendly and warm on most occasions, with many developers helping each other to grow together. However, as everywhere, it seems that there are also people willing to take advantage of othersbeing what happened to Kindanicean indie developer who saw his game cloned for his supposed recent friend.
The story began when kindanice and brash they started to exchange advice development a little over a year ago. Kindanice, a fan of Brash’s game Gunrun, did not suspect that his new acquaintance also would take his entire game.
In a conversation with the media PC Gamer, kindanice shared screenshots of his interactions with Brash, where the two developers exchanged programming knowledge, shown at one point, when Brash invited Kindanice to his Discord server for game developers. A year later, Brash surprised kindanice by announcing that he had Cloned Dire Decks in a new engine, added new features, renamed the game as wild card and had put it on Steam under his own name.
“This is not an ambiguous case where one game is inspired by another but brings its own style. The games are visually almost identical”Kindanice explained. Brash, for his part, admitted that Wildcard was a “rewrite” and “clone” by Dire Decks.
When asked whether the law of Copyright was protecting Dire Decks, Brash admitted he wasn’t sure, noting that he was not a lawyer. Kindanice felt he had a case, but preferred to appeal to ethics, telling him Brash copy your game It was not correct and that his developer friends were surprised and disturbed.
“I’m confused, what’s weird here? I liked the game, so I made a clone with extra stuff. Happens every day, buddy.” Brash responded.
Kindanice asked Brash to will remove Wildcard from Steam, but Brash refused. Kindanice suggested that Brash’s reputation would be damaged when the public found out what he had done, but Brash did not relent. “The decision is made”Brash said. “I accept my destiny.”
On June 3, kindanice made public the situation in X: “@terrybrash copied my game ‘dire decks’ and is releasing it on Steam under a different name without my permission. I’ve been trying to get him to take the game down, but he won’t do it. I’m not sure what to do in this situation…”
Despite being pointed out, Brash continued promoting Wildcard in X. Wildcard is still listed on Steam with a demo, and Brash has said it will be free when it launches.
Kindanice is currently working in an expanded version of Dire Decks for Steam. He has considered making a copyright claim against Wildcard, but would still prefer if Brash voluntarily removed the game from Steam.
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