Everything is inspired by something doesn't give you the ability to go and sue someone cause it looks similar.
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Tequila Works (Rime) Has Pointed out Theft of Tree Assets by Developer Behind "KUMO" Up: Dev admits fault, see threadmarks
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Everything is inspired by something doesn't give you the ability to go and sue someone cause it looks similar.
It was Rime. But TW came out and said they actually split with Sony. Don't think another story ever came out if it's different from that.
imagine Disney thinking like that and going after Studio MDHR's ass hahahaha
There was a lot of conjecture around Tequila after the Sony split and with the DRM talk on Rime. I'll reserve judgement for now.
When I see this I think Cats... Oh goshHuh. Trees.
They don't look too alike, both kinda odd and fluffy and triggy..but different.
I also love it when folks say the line: "I have NEVER been so insulted!" -- feels so Victorian.
It is if you think all those trees look the same. I laughed for a different reason: remember what the previous gen's abiding complaint was? Bald space marines and... Everything is brown.
The fuck is this.
Even if they were stolen directly, who gives a shit they are mediocre trees. Take it as a compliment and move on. This is what artists do, you share and inspire, you got to get used to it. Unless they are directly ripping off unique assets.
Even if they were stolen directly, who gives a shit they are mediocre trees. Take it as a compliment and move on. This is what artists do, you share and inspire, you got to get used to it. Unless they are directly ripping off unique assets.
This is also my take, Art inspires art and being fastidious about sharing and growing a medium is always a bad thing.
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Stealing assets directly is an issue due to how expensive they are for companies. Ive seen environment assets cost up to $20,000 in outsourcing for 1 hero prop. Not saying these trees cost that but no I don't think directly ripping stuff directly no matter what the quality then selling a product made with them is/should be legal. There is nothing wrong though by being inspired by different art and games though. Go nuts with that. This instance is definitely using the same tool defaults/nodes(Speedtree) and similar artstyle. Large companies always protect themselves by having every asset go through the legal team for various reasons.
No not at the trees, just that so much of Sony's first party games have all modeled into the same style (and I have all PlayStation consoles so this isn't bias or anything).
what is your point here exactly ? Taking inspiration ain't ground for a lawsuit (not that Rime was that original to begin with) and frankly it's disgusting for a bigger studio to go after a single indie dev working on his project.
Also seems like Tequila Works "won", fucking assholes
No point. I'm not taking sides. Just pointing out that this might indeed go beyond just the trees.
Personally, don't really care for Tequila's games.
I mean unless he directly uses any assets (music, sounds, 3d models, textures...) from Rime, there are no grounds for a lawsuit. That's also why you get ton of clones on the phone markets because it's still legal regardless of how close it comes to the original games.
Does anybody have a screenshot of the tweet that started this? Since fuck does this make Tequila Works look like fucking assholes.
then why bring it up? do you think this lawsuit is justified?
I bring it up because so far we have seen images comparing only trees and I don't think "Tequila gets angry because trees" is a very fair thing to say.
I also don't think the lawsuit is justified, no, but then I'm not Tequila Works. Again, never even played a game made by them, and fuck them for bullying a smaller dev like that.
If people are gonna start suing over towers Ubisoft gonna start sweating
I don't see how this is a problem unless it's literally the same unique assets from Rime being used without permission.
This is bizarre. Is Rime even a game you'd want to clone? It's a decent 7/10 game that desperately wishes it was Ico or Journey but never comes remotely close to those kind of heights.
An art style that is heavily derivative of those two games I mentioned.
Is this lawyers, or the devs? Frivilous, bizarre, and sad. And as others mentioned, Jon Blow beat em both to it.
Nevermind the lawsuit, this shit is a blatant ripoff.
At least aesthetically.
Similarly styled cartoon graphics, lush greenery juxtaposed with stone formations and ruins (worse if it's also set on an island), red caped child protagonist, looking over at a monolithic point of interest.
I mean, it's shameless.
I dunno about suing but come on lol
I can see the point but really, I mean, giant obelisk/tower thing looming in the distance isn't particularly unique.