We created the game 1.5 years ago for the jam, the sprite has been available on GitHub alongside the rest of the open source code at that time - the reddit post is 8 months old and the redditor pretends not knowing anything about Merlin... Guess who is plagiarizing who....
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Then just check my earlier posting of this character :)
Your game jam Novermber 1st 2023
My postings September 25th 2023
https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/comments/16rhkzn/flying/
https://x.com/BirdiBirdson/status/1706150234668048428
Earlier iteration January 2023
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@birdibirdson/109770714755239655
Well now I look like a fool... I honestly thought our art was original until I saw this comment on itch today, which linked to your reddit post dating a few months after our game was published. Since we had everything open sourced, I assumed that the art had been copied in other areas - but clearly it seems the other way around... :(
I'll work with the artist to change it