Did somebody rip this game off?

[Heretic]

Some time ago I divided to give the game a try. Ultimately I choose to refund the game (but keep an eye on the updates) because although I liked the vision the mechanics were too rudimentary to tell how the game would or could distinguish itself over time.

Fast forward to just recently and YouTube is putting a new 'Playables" section in my face and I find this: https://gamesnacks.com/games/fullspeedracing

My first thought seeing "Fullspeed Racing" was "Hey, that looks a lot like Drift Stage". So similar in fact that I find it suspicious... admittedly on top of functioning like how I hoped Drift Stage would.

What exactly is the situation here? I can't seem to find any info on this other game besides a AI generated response saying it was released January 30 this year.

[DelkoDuck]

Hey, thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Drift Stage has been ripped off many times - most notoriously by a Chilean studio in 2019.


I shut them down back then - but it looks like they're back with a new grift - as this is clearly the same engine / assets.

As you can see by the art - its mostly hacks and edits of my old "Turbo Run" models - and other art ripped from Drift Stag's demo versions. All edited just enough to not be a 1:1 match - but things like the palm tree meshes and color palette are blatantly stolen.

Even the water effect is a badly done edit of a .gif file I made.

This is unfortunately what happens when your games development gets interrupted - and your crowdfunding audience become malicious - specifically one individual.

My gusse is they sold the code to some shovel-ware flash developer, since it was barred from the Apple store.

Very hard to go after international entities - and expensive.

I'll see about getting it removed - but I'm having the same issues you had - no real source to contact.

[Heretic]

A search for "fullspeed racing" on YouTube shows a Video by "Crazy Games Online" as the oldest video to feature the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8ssqwobdE
The video's description is a link to the game on this website.
https://www.crazygamesonline.com/game/play/fullspeed-racing

The video was posted August 31, 2021
On the website: "Release date: 22 November 2021"

Either an update changed the release date or the video was produced before the game was added to the site.

To be fair though, the site seems to aggregate games from around the web.

[DelkoDuck]

Thanks for digging around, I'll see if I can get this taken down for good.