Stardew Valley ripped off

[HyperNova]

This title :

http://store.steampowered.com/app/747850/Warm_Village/

It looks like a lot of their ingame assets are directly taken from Stardew Valley. It is up to ConcernedApe / Chucklefish to take acton.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by wilco64256:

Originally posted by psychotron666:

You do realize stardew valley ripped off assets from other games too right? The surprise reaction sprite is blatantly ripped off from chrono trigger, some items like void essence and solar essence are ripped off from terraria (look identical and I even think the same name) as well as many assets (some tile sets from harvest moon), etc.

This:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/galaxyonfire/images/0/0b/IMG_0562.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20121021114103

Is not even remotely similar to the void essence in Stardew Valley.

There's nothing in Terraria that's called Solar Essence or looks anything like the Solar Essence in Stardew Valley.

You cannot copyright a facial expression.

Feel free to explain which tile sets you believe were ripped from Harvest Moon games.

That isn't the thing from terraria I forget the name but it's like soul of void or something. And there's a divine one too. Both look like the stardew valley item. As well as some of the minor items. There were many things that looked like they came from terraria I just assumed they partnered with them or something.

And this sprite here https://www.spriters-resource.com/snes/chronotrigger/sheet/2514/

Halfway down the page the surprised reaction is there. Looks identical to the surprised reaction on the sprites in stardew valley. They just copied and pasted it and changed the characters face.

Can't find a link to stardew valley surprised reaction but it is the same. And there were many minor things like that I noticed while playing the game.

I'm not trying to bash stardew valley as I've made sprites the same way myself by taking existing ones and changing them, just saying that they used other assets in the creation of this game as well.

[MarLeyDvC]

oh yeah

[tikiman572]

Having played Stardew for well over 200 hours... yeah. This "Warm Village" game isn't kosher at all. I could tell straight from looking at the water and the outside ground/mountainside that they were directly lifted from Stardew Valley. Which is a shame considering the other graphics are all their own and look rather decent. Too bad it is made irrelevant by the blatant theft going on here by the developers.

And for the folks lambasting Stardew Valley for "ripping off" or "stealing from" Harvest Moon... you DO realize that outside of the concept for a Farming RPG, which can't really be stolen, Stardew is its own entity that doesn't take ANY assets from the Harvest Moon games whatsoever? That's the difference here. Stardew created all of its assets while this "Warm Village" game has outright stolen assets from Stardew to use in its game.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by monkehmaster:

Originally posted by psychotron666:

And this sprite here https://www.spriters-resource.com/snes/chronotrigger/sheet/2514/

Halfway down the page the surprised reaction is there. Looks identical to the surprised reaction on the sprites in stardew valley. They just copied and pasted it and changed the characters face.

a spirte from a game that isnt even being made for a console system that isnt being made anymore? which is also probably common in alot of similar games... lol.

Wut?

It's a game that came out almost 20 years ago that already exists. Not sure what you're getting at.

[wilco64256]

Originally posted by monkehmaster:

basic abandonware, and your claiming stardew valley ripped them off, they arent making profit off that game anymore lol.

For the sake of accuracy, it's worth pointing out that Chrono Trigger has been re-released on numerous platforms in that past few years. It was released on Nintendo DS in 2008, Playstation 3 in 2011, iOS in 2011, and Android in 2012. They're definitely still making money on the property..

[Amie]

Typical Chinese plagiarism. Innovation and originality are foreign concepts to them.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by monkehmaster:

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Wut?

It's a game that came out almost 20 years ago that already exists. Not sure what you're getting at.

basic abandonware, and your claiming stardew valley ripped them off, they arent making profit off that game anymore lol.

Uh you can buy the game today on the play store for 10 bucks. Still getting profits from it.

And I've never seen any game besides stardew valley use that sprite before. Not saying it hasn't been used, just that I've never seen it in anything else

[Killroy]

Apart for the plants looking the same, there is a different style to it.

That being said this is something for the company to figure out. Which will fail due to (I dont know if this nock off is chinese or japanese) but I know for a fact that China does not reconize copyright laws in many ways. (Think this still happens.)

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by monkehmaster:

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Uh you can buy the game today on the play store for 10 bucks. Still getting profits from it.

And I've never seen any game besides stardew valley use that sprite before. Not saying it hasn't been used, just that I've never seen it in anything else

i have, cant remeber the names off hand but i have been playing consoles and pc games for almost 30yrs, so ive seen alot of the gaming industry.

im not sure why anyone would pay 10 bucks for a game that has several versions free for anyone on the internet tho.... also play store? you mean mobile? i dont play mobile games, phones are horrible for gaming.

Yeah well the free ones online are emulators and roms technically illegal unless you also own the physical copy.

It was released for snes, ps1, Nintendo ds and yes it's a phone game now like all of the final fantasy up to 9. It's actually not Terrible for a phone game but you can just get emulators on your phone too.

[Pyrimidal]

Originally posted by ChocIce75:

The surprise reaction sprite? CA made it, as he made all the character sprites.
The "re-used" item sprites? CA would have either made sprites very similar to the ones in the 2D Minecraft rip-off Terraria, or he would have gotten permission from the developers of Terraria to use them.
CA did use assets from other games when he was still making the game, and he only had a Steam Greenlight page, and he made his own sprites, as the other sprites were placeholders.

Terraria... ripping off Minecraft? I'm sorry, no. The two games are COMPLETELY different. You're literally just saying that because both have you mining blocks.

First difference. Terraria has a MASSIVE underground with possible more layers than Minecraft could ever dream of. They also have different underground layers in different biomes, unlike Minecraft, which is the same throughout the world.

Second difference. Crafting. Terraria is just standing next to a station and building things inside your inventory, whereas Minecraft has you interact with the station. If you're going to tell me the crafting is the same, look at every other game that has crafting, and tell me they're also ripping off minecraft.

Third difference. Enemies. Terraria has an enormous number of enemies compared to Minecraft. Also, there's the Corruption, which takes over the world at a periodic rate, whereas Minecraft has no such thing.

Fourth difference. Bosses. In Minecraft, there's only 2 bosses : The Netherhead skull-blaster thing, and the Ender Dragon. In Terraria, there's probably more than 10 unique bosses. On top of that, each boss gives you a specific set of materials allowing you to craft better weapons or build items to get to other bosses, whereas Minecraft doesn't really give you anything aside from asthetics or minorly important items.

While the combat may be slightly similar, give me a sword fighting game that doesn't act like both games. And textures-wise, many blocky games look similar, but with variations in style. Terraria is one of these, with it's smaller and more realistic textures (ish)

[wilco64256]

China may not care about copyright but Valve is a United States business and they care.

[x3stealer112]

Originally posted by wilco64256:

China may not care about copyright but Valve is a United States business and they care.

But do Gaben care?That's the real question.Gaben is the one that holds power in valve.

[titanopteryx]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

You do realize stardew valley ripped off assets from other games too right? The surprise reaction sprite is blatantly ripped off from chrono trigger, some items like void essence and solar essence are ripped off from terraria (look identical and I even think the same name) as well as many assets (some tile sets from harvest moon), etc.

Chrono Trigger ripped off Dragon Ball. Chrono is red headed Goku. Though they were made by the same artist who was just being lazy, Now Goku was based off the Monkey King from Chinese culture. And Chrono Trigger is about time travel.

I can't remember where I was going with that.

[Chocice75]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

The surprise reaction sprite is blatantly ripped off from chrono trigger

You can't copywrite a face.

[mebygrace2]

Many other countries do not have their own, nor honor the "copyright" laws of the USA. On the internet, much is just "up for grabs".