I'm not the kind of person that gets outraged by things like this but eh, they literally copied Mekabolt, my first game. www.eastasiasoft.com/games/Mechan... - ThreadSky

somepx.com • 30 days ago

I'm not the kind of person that gets outraged by things like this but eh, they literally copied Mekabolt, my first game.

https://www.eastasiasoft.com/games/Mechanita

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fncpsterr.bsky.social•30 days ago

For the first couple of gameplay shots I was like "Ok, yeah, it's pretty similar. Kind of generic though. Jumping on robots. Spikes. Is Ivano overreacting?" Then there's another section and it's like "Oh. Ok. Wow. Yeah that's Mekabolt alright."

somepx.com•30 days ago

ahah right? getting it *this* close to my game definitely took a lot of effort.

fncpsterr.bsky.social•30 days ago

It's a, er... very faithful homage?

somepx.com•30 days ago

every game mechanic and enemy has been faithfully recreated! Congratulations for the effort Sagitta Studios and Eastasiasoft.

And oh, thanks for using my fonts! 🤣

somepx.com•30 days ago

don't worry friends, this doesn't bother me - I just find it odd, maybe even amusing in a certain way? also no, me and my publisher aren't involved in that other game at all.

Anyways, you can play Mekabolt for free on @poki.com!
https://poki.com/en/g/mekabolt

enrelkeeper.bsky.social•30 days ago

Well I'm pretty sure it bothers you something or you would not even mention it, it is a pretty disgusting move and I hope you send an email to that publisher to state the facts at least and whatever happens, happens.

somepx.com•30 days ago

no no, è divertente! I'm mentioning it because I'm kinda shocked by the notion that someone would take inspiration from *my* game.

fncpsterr.bsky.social•30 days ago

You know you're a successful game developer when...

enrelkeeper.bsky.social•30 days ago

you are someone to take inspiration from my dear amico, sei fantastico

privatewelshman.bsky.social•30 days ago

Made it more boring looking too, judging by the screenshots.

ferdi-ozgurel.bsky.social•29 days ago

I just played Megabolt, watched some ads, and followed you. Yours is way better, animations were soooo good and I think you were being very generous with having so little ads in a webgame. Does this genre and monetization model work for webgames?

somepx.com•29 days ago

thanks! Mekabolt was born as a console game (in fact it's available pretty much everywhere, including PS Vita!), so I'd say there are better monetization models for webgames yeah.

I "adapted" it by adding skins and level skips, but a better option would have been, say, power-ups and checkpoints!

sabakudoesart.bsky.social•30 days ago

Eww, that's weird

somepx.com•30 days ago

coming next, SkeleKid: ReDislocated! 💀

sabakudoesart.bsky.social•30 days ago

I wouldn't fault them, that pun is incredible

maenots.bsky.social•30 days ago

Gross 😕

somepx.com•30 days ago

it's so weird! they could have copied any other game. maybe something more successful than mine 😅

maenots.bsky.social•30 days ago

Lol yours looks way better! They stole everything but the serve 💅✨️

somepx.com•30 days ago

eh, it's nothing to write home about. but every shipped game is a miracle! And it only took me 14 weeks to make it~✨

maenots.bsky.social•30 days ago

Ain't that the truth! (I'd write home about it tho, it looks great)

wuchta.bsky.social•30 days ago

It's not even subtle, literally everything is almost unchanged. But I feel like theirs looks worse than the original.

somepx.com•30 days ago

mine isn't anything special but - honestly! I'm curious to know *why* they chose to recreate every enemy from my game, they're almost unchanged!!

this shows a certain degree of dedication, I'm flattered 🤣

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