Here’s a weird one. A video game developer was contacted by another developer and the two shared some tips and advice with each other. Then a year later, one of those devs turned around and cloned the other’s game and, when questioned about it, replied that this kind of thing happens “every day homie.
” As reported by PC Gamer on June 5 , indie game developer kindanice claims that he was recently contacted by another developer, Terry Brash, who he’d previously spoken to and shared some advice with back in 2023. This time, Brash who was excited to show him his new game, Wildcard. The thing is, the game appears to be an almost identical clone of kindanice’s Dire Decks—out now on itch.
io .That’s not my or kindanice’s opinion, by the way. In DMs reportedly shared with PC Gamer, Brash introduced Wildcard, which already has a Steam page , to kindanice as a “clone” of Dire Decks.
As you might expect, kindanice was confused and shocked by this whole situation. He reportedly asked Brash if the developer thought it was cool to just take art and concepts from one game and use them in your own. Brash replied that the game used new, redrawn art and original code.
Brash then apparently asked kindanice if he wanted an “inspiration” credit. “Bro..
. there’s ‘inspiration’ and then there’s blatantly copying an entire game,” kindanice replied, according to PC Gamer. Kindanice and Brash then discussed copyright laws and if Wildcard violated any before kindanic.
