Indie roguelike deckbuilder Dire Decks has been stolen and launched on Steam below a unique identify by “developer” Terry Brash, and he is apparently unwilling to take his model of the sport down.
In response to Dire Decks developer kindanice on X (previously Twitter), Brash stole the sport with out their permission, and although kindanice has “tried to get him to take the sport down”, Brash is “unwilling to take action”.
In case you are questioning, the sport in query is Wildcard, which you’ll find on Steam. I have never linked it right here as a result of I do not wish to ship any visitors its approach, however a fast search ought to reveal it.
Earlier right this moment, Brash marketed Wildcard on X, promising a “free motion roguelike deckbuilder with on-line leaderboards”. Customers rapidly started to fill Brash’s replies with allegations that the sport was stolen.
Brash hasn’t responded on to any of those allegations, however he has posted a few weird memes on X, together with an It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia clip modded to incorporate the road “did you copy one other sport?” and a SpongeBob meme.
He additionally guarantees that Wildcard will stay free on Steam, and that it’ll “prominently” show the names of the highest 4 gamers on the leaderboard, though once more, these messages are flooded with responses accusing Brash of stealing the sport.
What’s unusual is that Brash hasn’t made any form of try to refute the allegations of theft (moreover the aforementioned memes, which hardly rely). His technique seems to be simply overtly leaving the sport up on Steam and hoping all of this blows over.
Brash’s repurposing of Dire Decks is fairly barefaced, but it surely’s not clear what is going on to occur subsequent. There’s all the time the DMCA takedown route, though that might solely work if artwork property or code have been straight copied from Dire Decks.
In any case, for those who suppose Dire Decks appears in any respect attention-grabbing to you, then I might urge you to go test it out on Itch.io. No matter you do, simply do not play the Steam model when it comes out.
