huuum thank you for letting me know about this! It looks like their game was posted 54 days ago, mine was published December 16 2023, thats about 120 days ago, twice as old as theirs... so if anything they liked our JAM and copied the idea lol which is fine... I don't think we will finish this project anyway... thank you for the kind words tho, and for bringing me awareness =D
You're confusing a published build or something with when the page went live. I worked on this project and we started after summer last year. I don't want to argue the issue, and you shouldn't take my word for it, but if you look into it, you should be able to find a date before yours.
I wish you the best moving forward with whatever projects you end up working on.
Edit: if need be, we have git logs dating back to mid October. I'm not interested in making a stink about any of this though, it was more just an FYI
don't worry, Im not acusing you of anything neither lol, im just a little confused.... Id love to take a look at this public git you have since october! I wonder how similiar the project was then compared to now.... do you have the link? Id love to give it a look and check what mechanis design decisions were already there when my game was posted!
Thank you!
It's not a public repo, it's through our university, and we're not comfortable sharing access to the source code unless this got serious, which hopefully isn't either of our intentions. Obviously screenshots can be edited but we can provide those if you'd like.
Alternatively, we can send you files and renders that haven't been edited since before all this, and should have the relevant data to prove it. This is all a bit awkward tbh, if you have any suggestions then please let us know.
Oh lol, no need for all of that... I though it was public because you implied I'd have access to that in order to be "be inspired" by your project. Is there ANYTHING public about it at all before December??? Maybe a public discord server with screenshots or something? Again, I'm just curious... Trying to find out how you got the idea of me knowing about your project before it was posted anywhere...
So the itch page was public but we don't think it had a build published, hence why its only really some art and parts of your premise that match up. Not suggesting you would have, but it wouldn't have been possible to replicate any gameplay at the time anyway. We can prove we were working on the project in October, and we can show some striking similarities, but unless itch has the page creation date hidden away anywhere then that's about it.
I'm also not accusing you specifically, unless you're the only dev. Things like this can go under the radar and not everyone is aware of it. That's why I've brought it up in the first place, I wanted to be honest about it and make sure you all were aware, but I'm not here to blame or cause any issues. Its heavy inspiration at most, nothing has been stolen or anything, so no harm done.
This menu screen, or something similar, would have been on the page at the time, as well as a description about an abandoned nuclear facility, etc.
Here's a link to an old build. The files in the zip should be dated to the 7th of December. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1coJR2s6fYtlZNWGiHtfyWsa_b9eiZQh_/view?usp=shari...
