“We’ve been concerned by recent news of games being reverse-engineered, cloned and published…”.
Digital Sun, the indie developers of Moonlighter, has announced it is delaying a public playtest of its latest game, the Castlevania-inspired tower-defence title ReVamp, in response to cloning fears.
In a statement released to social media, the Spanish development studio thanked people for signing up for the game’s first playtest but said, due to reports of “games being reverse-engineered, cloned and published before the original is even out” (and with the launch still “months away”), releasing a large public build right now feels like “too big a risk”.
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“We’ve been concerned by recent news of games being reverse-engineered, cloned and published…”.
Digital Sun, the indie developers of Moonlighter, has announced it is delaying a public playtest of its latest game, the Castlevania-inspired tower-defence title ReVamp, in response to cloning fears.
In a statement released to social media, the Spanish development studio thanked people for signing up for the game’s first playtest but said, due to reports of “games being reverse-engineered, cloned and published before the original is even out” (and with the launch still “months away”), releasing a large public build right now feels like “too big a risk”.
Read the full article on timeextension.com