According to the developers of Wildfire, the main artwork of the indie game Wildfire, which is being released, was plagiarized and stolen by the blockchain game Epic Hero Battles.
Wildfire is a 2D stealth game released in May 2020. The protagonist has the ability to burn everything, which the player can use to interact with the environment. And Epic Heroes Battle is a blockchain game title that can actually be monetized by trading irreplaceable data called NFT tokens.
Dan Hindes, author of Wildfire, tweeted that the game's main key art map had been copied, and he was angry: "You used our key art map without permission, you don't have the right to use it, delete it." ”
"The art drawings used on the site were obtained by the developers from the web, but we didn't check it. This is our mistake. "Epic Heroes Battle" explains. But since then, the work has been discovered by careful netizens, not only plagiarizing on the main map of the official website, but also stealing pictures on the updated roadmap page of the Twitter account and the official website.
At the time of writing, the Twitter account of Epic Heroes Battle (@BattlesHero) has been deleted. The official website has also deleted the art map in question, and it is now a gray page.
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