Catly Developer Banned Me For Exposing Their Game as Potential Scam

[Vandy]

Hello. As the title says, I was banned for relaying information that is public to the steam discussion board.

During The Game Awards, this suspicious "game" was advertised using styles and assets that had the appearance of being generated by AI systems. I posted about the developer's lack of published history, and of the suspicious deletion of another similar project. All information that I shared was public, found through a few search engine queries.

My message was as follows. If you believe I was banned legitimately and without censorship, please say so, but I feel that the developer is suppressing criticism of the people:

Be wary of Information Security

Disclaimer: the following opinion is just that: opinion based on loose facts. Therefore I will preface any statements with "alleged/ly" to preserve myself from any false reports of defamation.

I suspect that this game may allegedly be, or rely heavily upon the use of AI.

The founder, Kevin Yeoung seems to have scrubbed his data from LinkedIn, despite historical remnants pointing to his background being primarily in finance, carrying only a Bachelor of Science in accounting and finance.

The developer has no other published work to date, but there are traces of an additional, scrapped concept called "Plantly." While webcrawler data shows vague traces of it being marketed through both LinkedIn, Instagram, and possibly other social media websites, all live platforms result in a 404 error while attempting to access.

If this developer is in it for the authentic experience of game development, I would be deeply shocked. This feels artificial (artificial intelligence, you could say). I would not put a single line of personal information into any kind of sign-up process or Steam-linked data sharing if I were you.

Steam, if you are reading this: please vet developers with more scrutiny than this. Frankly, I'm disappointed that TGA allowed them to advertise. I'm sure they payed a hefty sum to get their IP in front of so many viewers, and the unscrupulous opinion of the board members is what decided that money was more important than the spirit or authenticity of game development.

[eram]

Escrito originalmente por Purple Tentacle:

Escrito originalmente por eram:

im buying it . You dont speak for anyone

i never claimed too

Escrito originalmente por Purple Tentacle:

no one will buy this

this is a false claim you made up and you dont speak for anyone.

[Purple Tentacle]

Escrito originalmente por eram:

Escrito originalmente por Purple Tentacle:

i never claimed too

Escrito originalmente por Purple Tentacle:

no one will buy this

this is a false claim you made up and you dont speak for anyone.

jesus christ, clearly thats hyperbole

[eram]

my name is eram and stop making false claims.

[skOsH♥]

You know, a developer can just announce they're using AI asset and image generation, and people will be perfectly fine with this because they're being honest and transparent. I don't know if I believe this. I mean OP peaced out of the thread so do they actually care?

I mean, the actual original post looks like it was written by AI, with the query "write a controversy about a game developer caught using AI assets"

[eram]

Catly Creator Says Game Has No Generative AI, No Blockchain, and No NFTs
https://www.ign.com/articles/catly-creator-says-game-has-no-generative-ai-no-blockchain-and-no-nfts

[Slav Mcgopnik]

I don’t get why the regulars can’t smell how rotten this project is.

Nothing but AI images and videos on the page, aggressively trying to push merch despite not even having gameplay yet, store page is garbled nonsensical fluff that says nothing about what the supposed game is.

This reeks of a sham trying to use AI to push cheap merch, there’s not any signs of a game here at all.

[Slav Mcgopnik]

Escrito originalmente por eram:

Catly Creator Says Game Has No Generative AI, No Blockchain, and No NFTs
https://www.ign.com/articles/catly-creator-says-game-has-no-generative-ai-no-blockchain-and-no-nfts

The dev has a history with AI and Blockchain stuff https://playtoearn.com/news/tenthplanet-set-to-introduce-two-new-blockchain-games-

He can say all he wants but I’m not going to ignore what I’m seeing here.

[Kad]

This game will change the Earth. Stop hating.

[Amaterasu]

Cat game. Wishlisted for cats.

[D. Flame]

Nothing about that looks like a scam or AI. It looks like basic asset flips used in a unique way, which is allowed.

[Ben Lubar]

I'll say what people said about PalWorld: if AI made this, it's over for human game developers.

[C҉ͭαɾɳє Ꭿs҉̑ąďα]

Amazing , video generation was at its peak about this time, and making a fake custom cat game and getting it in trailers for auctual game trailers and the freakout begins. It screams AI video and editing even if you are a cat ♥♥♥♥♥

[Katie]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.