Turns out I got scammed. I made three separate pieces for someone I thought was ArenaDev, the developer for Octofurry, but it turns out I was just being played into creating three different pieces under the pretense of working on a major collaborative effort for a supposed update to the game. I have no idea what the scammers gained from this, I assume it was just getting free art. But at this point sucks but, there’s not much I can do about it.

For a little more context, I received a DM here on FA from someone going by "Mark K" (Runestail) talking about a game opportunity and how it was a big thing with a good handful of artists, and how the update was coming out in August and stuff, but that obviously didn’t happen. I even got references for the style and characters they wanted to use, which, after looking into it, turned out to be mostly, if not all, stolen art from a large variety of artists. I then spoke to someone named "Jocelyn Carmona" [Pascal (tsubaki933)] on Discord, who claimed to be the lead designer and sent me the stolen references and all the other details about the fake project. I contacted a handful of the affected artists to inform them of what happened, and I also reached out to the real ArenaDev through their Itch io page to let them know about this issue. They’ve even posted a warning on their Itch io page, so please, if you ever get contacted through FA about a game opportunity for Octofurry or any already existing game, really look into it and even contact the original developer if possible. Make 1000% sure they are who they say they are. I might have been stupid, but I was excited about working on a large project.

Here is the official post that the real ArenaDev made about they matter:

https://itch.io/blog/792218/warning.....nating-my-team