They seem to be more intended as showcases for the artists/animators than original games in their own right. There seem to be quite a lot of continental studios (often students or recent graduates) crowdfunding games that are blatant grab-bags of things they like from indie hits from the last few years. It used to be a good plan, but I'm thinking that as folk get used to it it's much less of a smart move. The only reason to do what they've done is to attract controversy and hope that works in their favour. Make the same game with a different art style and they'd be good. Why wouldn't you spend your time doing something new? Pin that art style on a different genre and they'd have been sorted. But why would you? As he said - there is a shedload of work involved there, and most of it looks decent quality. It's that double whammy of copying both art style and core game idea that makes it FEEL so brazen, but legally they're probably OK. The level is referenced in code within the game but never made its way to the final version of the game. It was to be inhabited by Scottish porcupines wearing tartans, and was designed as a mid-game level of walkways and platforms between massive redwood trees high above the forest floor. Luxor was the main one of those and Luxor Evolved was the standout of these. Enchanted Forest was a scrapped level in Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly. But it's exactly the same as the Zuma cloning that went on back in the day - and the people buying Zuma clones had probably already bought Zuma and just wanted more (and yes, I'm aware Zuma ripped off something else that I can't remember right now, but I hope you get my drift). The game design is different obviously, so that's probably the main thing here, and I can't see anyone suing - it's just morally a bit tawdry. I mean - none of it is actually half-inched, but they've definitely just copied exactly what Cuphead did. So this is interesting, because they've copied the idea of the game - which is absolutely fine, but then they've gone and aped the art style quite closely too.
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The basic gist of copyright law is that you can't copyright an idea, only the implementation (what it looks like, the characters, the sound effects etc.) So anyone is free to write a book about a school full of wizards, but if you call one of them Harry Potter you're screwed.
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