Whiterabbit-uk,

p.s. if anyone recognises other games with very similar game play to today's game, including the same assets, please let me know the name of the game or games. This particular developer is notorious for asset flipping games; sometimes taking a template from one of the cheap game engines, and basically releasing the template with some vague changes then calling the game theirs.

Personally, I think those cheap game engines have caused a lot of harm to the gaming industry, with fly-by-night developers releasing unfinished or extremely short games that are basically asset flips, with virtually no original content included and selling them as full working releases. They also have a tactic of initially selling cheap, then raising the price to something ridiculous, then putting a 90% off discount on them regularly that gives the appearance of a bargain, but in reality, it's a rip off. There are too many of those games now being sold by Valve who touted themselves as gamers for gamers when I first joined the Steam community in 2009; instead, they are profiting off gamers lack of knowledge.

That said, I'm hoping that this is an original take and that here are no other TD games with the same game play.

Whiterabbit-uk,

I did scans using both Virus Total and Internxt and both gave the game a clean bill of health. I accidentally deleted the paragraph with all the links. If I have time I'll redo them, but I can assure you both results were clean.

Whiterabbit-uk, This is especially true for Android games. So many 'get the car out the car park' games which are just advert generators. The level lasts thirty seconds, but you get ads before and after the level. I think these sort of games are just ports of these, without the advert bits.

Whiterabbit-uk, I don't know if you consider taking free templates and basically slapping a name on them and claiming them as your games with little or no development past the template as asset flips. I realize that you may or may not be partly referring to a comment I posted on Friday the 7th referring to a Steam poster on that day's game who accused it of being a template rip-off. Or that you may have already seen the original comment on Steam before I even posted that. You're usually ahead of me. That person gave an example to prove his accusation and examples on other games as well from Friday's development team. Like I say, you may be way ahead of me, but, since you asked...

Oops, sorry, you were talking about template flipping, among other types of asset borrowing.

Whiterabbit-uk,

Sorry, I never got around to revisiting the game yesterday. Overall, I agree with Jasons conclusion about the control system being a little confusing initially, but with practice overcome.

watcher13,

Sadly, it's become almost akin to a pandemic, with literally thousands of these asset flips now available, which are often being sold with 90% off and the original prices inflated to ridiculous amounts. These are things we never saw in the early days of Steam before the advent of the cheap saleable game engines such as Gamemaker, RPG Maker and Unity as well as some of the more expensive ones such as the Crytek engine (that produces some amazing looking games, but some developers have taken advantage of this creating short games(even less than the old 1 hour demos we used to get attached to computer magazines) with virtually no content, seriously bugged and lacking any story line.

I purchased a game made using the Crytek engine, I watched the video and was impressed; it was on sale at the time, so I purchased it. Left it for several months before I got around to playing it, (removing the ability to get a refund) then found literally 10 minutes of linear game play that ended abruptly. I then checked to see if I had any more games by this particular developer and found a couple of RPG maker games he'd released, which I'd purchased. They too were ridiculously short, bugged and with no story. I then discovered that the developer had already had several games removed for posting reviews under different accounts. Apparently Valve now ban developers completely, removing all of their games, but when this happened some years ago, they were more tolerant.

I also entered one of those pseudo competitions where you go to various social media pages to like the developer, all full of adverts. If you completed all of the tasks; around 10 different sites to visit and like or follow, you were given a single code that activated all of the developer's games. (a mix of RPG Maker and First-person shooter games), which I won. I activated the games on Steam, then several weeks later all the games that had been included in the package were removed from Steam and my winnings were removed as well. I then saw the same package being offered on one of the well-known gaming sites with basically the same offer, i.e., visit several sites, like the developer's games etc and you'd win a code to activate the same games that had previously been removed from Steam.

Whiterabbit-uk, I somehow have the feeling that Itch may not be as concerned and proactive in this than Valve may be.

Whiterabbit-uk,

Yeah; no reply from two emails I've sent about the concerns we've discussed previously.

sorry, Whiterabbit or mods, pls. remove the post I just made. I'm not sure it's accurate. Sorry!

watcher13,

I'd already replied to it, but not moderated it immediately. Though I still think it's still applicable. If you still want me to delete it I'll delete all of these replies as well.

Whiterabbit-uk, no, my fault WR. I realized that you were specifically were referring to asset flips, while I was more talking about whose name goes on the giveaway. :P ;) If you want, just remove the delete request and your answer to it, because I assume it won't make sense without mine. Or leave them both if you're reluctant to remove one of your own - quite legitimate - replies. If you do not remove them, then you might want to leave this 1 too, as my clarification as to what I was originally talking about. I trust your judgement, of course.