Wow.....yeah, verbatim. o.o Only difference being 1 less male character. That is just wrong. -.- Curious if you will take action against them.

That's annoying. Kinda funny I half came up with something that was good enough story/idea to rip off. You came up with pretty much everything...but yeah.

Almost makes me not want to share future commissions from people.

That pretty much sucks! Anything you can do about it? Or care to do, anyway?

took a peek at it and save for not having the other brother and it being furry its practically a direct rip from yuor story right down to breast smoosh, the pirate thing at the beach and most of the dialoge...

They swiped DR.Comet art for a game too. They didnt even change the look

well there are plageerism laws and stuff that can. But as bad it is long as they are not makeing money really. but if they start makeing money onit then you cn claim royalties of it.

its like a chinese human nock off XD everything likt he story cept just one thing missing. XD

Except they ARE making money off it. It's a demo for the Meet N' Fuck games. Basically, you start to get to the good stuff, then BAM, they tell you to go to their site and pay the fee to play the full game.

Like your version way better

Fri3end of mine had a whole game lifted by Hollyweird and he never got a cent.

Wow, arnt they playing the asshole?

Then again with porn sites that are all over the net, they do art based on all kinds of characters, copywritten or not, and make money off it with little to no concern for the original owner of the IP.

Still, dick move on them. They even de-furried it. That strikes me as funny actualy.

Dames of Desire is notorious for this, all their early titles were uncredited hentai artwork.

That website is a big offender when it comes to art theft, their hilariously uncreative.

Hate to say it, but without paying to see the whole thing, I'd have to say they changed enough that you would lose if you were the kind to blow a fuse and take them to court. They can successfully claim that they never saw your stuff and came up with the story on their own.

And they aren't mentioning anything in the credits because they don't want to share whatever money they make of it, of course. At least they didn't just cut and paste your art or have some shit artist trace it (like those kinds of sites usually do).

I'd say at the very least it would be kind of them to leave a part in the credits of a place to say where the art and idea came from. I know of a writer that gives the names of the ones he commissioned for any pictures placed in his stories.

Now if their making money off of it, that's a whole different story and might be closer to stealing, then actual borrowing.

I'm alright with someone being slightly influenced by something they saw and went a totally different direction with the few things that inspired them. But straight out taking something and only changing it slightly so they can say it isn't the same, I frown on that.

I'd at least insist on a credit or a portion of the revenue. They are also using uncredited music from "Tropico 2: Pirate Cove" by Kalypso Games.

I wouldn't say it's quite "verbatim." I'm pretty sure you didn't have "I'm so grad to see, too!" Which makes it obvious it's a pretty lame ripoff at best, nothing remarkable to see here! In fact, by linking to the site, you're really just generating them more money via ads by making this known. :)

I prefer the original

Ditto. Their art sucks.

If you don't bring suit, you're giving them carte blanche. If your story is posted and dated here, then your case is documented. At least call an attorney for a free consultation. They are readily googled.

That's pretty shameful

Now that I think about it, you're not the only artist I know they blatantly ripped off. I forgot who it was and which game, but I'll do some recon and share it if I find out which one it was.

I remember!

http://www.gamesofdesire.com/demo/a.....-and-practice/

They ripped off  sigmax

There was also Shiin-o. His nudist beach story got ripped off.

Looks like they've ripped off a lot of artists. Most noticeably Crowchild and HTH.

Have a friend who really got into creating fonts (the style of lettering) a few years back. Because he was a Tolkien fan he did an “Elfish” font that was quite popular -- people even got their names tattooed on their arms (or elsewhere) in the font.

Somewhere along the line he was made aware that his font was being used as part of the packaging of some Lord of the Rings toys or figurines. He checked and sure enough it was his font. Since he had previously gotten in contact with the Tolkien estate in England to get permission to post his font to the Internet (with proper accreditation to the author and his estate) he had a “legal right” to his font.

My friend then got in touch with the studio that was making the LOTRs movies and said WTF?! Since my friend HAD been in contact with the Tolkien Estate lawyers the studio couldn’t just ignore him.

After a little back-checking, the studio discovered that the commercial artist who had done the packaging design had “borrowed” my friend’s font since it was in the Internet and he considered that it was free. Not so.

In the end the studio acknowledge their error, sent my friend a number of toys and LOTR merchandise AND gave him on-screen credit (“Daniel Smith”) in the end-of-movie credits in either “Two Towers” or “Return of the King” (I forget which now).

So yes, there are those who believe that ’if it is on the Internet then it is free for anyone to use’. A very socialist idea.

well i do say some the generic or very common fonts are public domain. if patent long enough it does become public domain i think.

My friend had introduced little graphic “twists and twirls” into his font set and so that it was easily recognizable as being his creation. Piracy and art theft can not be excused merely by saying that art or an item automatically becomes public domain through long existence in the pubic eye.

Disney has successfully fought that idea and proven that in court time and time again against pirates who attempt to use their characters and claim that the Disney characters had fallen into the public domain because the characters have been out there long enough to become “public property.” Not so.

However there is a legal requirement to protecting one’s art or created items from falling into the public domain. The artist or maker (or their estate) needs to periodically make public their ownership of the art or items, generally by submitting a document to the courts stating their ownership.

One of the things that are automatically in the public domain from the very beginning is people’s faces. You can create a true-to-life picture, or caricature of President Obama, Governor Romney, Jason Bieber, or any other celebrity without any fear of being sued (so long as the picture is not libelous or derived from someone else‘s work). However use of someone’s photograph of a famous person’s face is not protected.

Pop artist Shepard Fairey created an iconic Barrack Obama poster in 2008 by using an Associated Press news photograph of the candidate without the AP’s license or permission. “Fairey argued that his use of the AP photo is protected by "fair use," which allows exceptions to copyright laws based on, among other factors, how much of the original is used, what the new work is used for and how the original is affected by the new work.” The court dropped the AP suit against Fairey when the artist agreed to seek AP’s permission before using any of its photos in the future. It’s not likely AP will ever give that permission.

So, posting any art work or idea on the Internet pretty much sets it up to being copied or pirated or stolen since there is no international policing agency attached to the Internet to protect posters‘ “ownership“ of their art or ideas. While ownership of an artwork or idea on the Internet can be established, it is almost impossible to protect them without prohibitive legal cost.

Does this have a chilling effect on artists, writers, musicians or anyone with a clever idea from posting their work on the Internet? You betcha it does. Aside from an occasional blog, almost no professional author posts any portion of his or her work on the Internet, even if only as a lark.

I say we kill that website. >:D

That was awful.