Vibe Coder strikes again

[u/Ashamed-Cost-5548]

FYI just because you use AI in your game, does not mean it is safe from AI cloner. If anything if AI can make your game, it can clone it

[u/wadrasil]

You can give an LLM a PDF of a board game and it can port it to godot.

I don't see the harm when people do it to entertain themselves.

But you need to respect the IP owners rites to their content.

[u/Ashamed-Cost-5548 → u/wadrasil]

well in this case the respect is clearly nowhere to be seen, no?

[u/wadrasil → u/Ashamed-Cost-5548]

No one has permission to use (relicense/publish) your content without permission.

If people were just cloning the game to use at home , there would be nothing to be mad about.

But when people are abusing the tech and stealing people's work and copyrighted material it is infringement and fraud.

You can not sell or distribute something you do not have the rights for, running it through an LLM does not change that.

[u/Such--Balance]

Jesus Christ the hubris of these kinds of people..

Copy vampire survivors. A basic shitty game to begin with (im sorry), Bitch and moan about it being copied. AND farm socials with the poor story...

These people man..

Absolutely disgusting

[u/Ashamed-Cost-5548 → u/Such--Balance]

explain how the layout, theme, UI is literally the same

[u/Due_Interest_178 → u/Such--Balance]

There's a difference between making a similar game and copying the exact game.

[u/Last-Captain-8920 → u/Due_Interest_178]

The point is low effort, or low labor games are easy to copy.

[u/free2farm → u/Such--Balance]

they come up with shitty games cloned from other viral games, then they also get cloned by vibecoders and ai and start crying and making vlogs about how ai has taken their job. Welcome to game development 2026

[u/Such--Balance → u/free2farm]

This guys is farming pitty extremely hard. On a game that itself is basically a clone

Fucking sad..

[u/Ashamed-Cost-5548]

https://youtube.com/shorts/cojzF6qcSBM?is=e1kNkPbZ75bLaS7I

here if anyone wants to watch how similar the clone actually is

[u/Such--Balance → u/Ashamed-Cost-5548]

HIS game is a clone of vampire survivors.

Wtf are we even doing guys??

[u/JWalter89]

A friend of mine decompiled and cloned my game the other day just to see how capable AI was, and it is very capable.

It doesn't bother me, at the end of the day, the majority of the code was written by AI. There's no way I can claim any ownership of that.

Although it's easy for me to say when I don't really have any skin in the game at the moment.

[u/Ashamed-Cost-5548 → u/JWalter89]

yeah that is the thing. a lot of people in this subseems to lack empathy because the dont want to put themselves in the dev's shoes and are not aware of it.

And most people seem to blame the dev for making simple game when there is never anything wtong with making simple game before AI (Balatro and Vampire Survivor). While there was always clone problem, at least it only happens after the game has time to grow and make money. Not before it is released

I bet in a few weeks or month some Vibe coder will whine when their "so unique and so complex" game got cloned by other vibe coder

[u/Working-Spray-2933 → u/JWalter89]

That’s a lie. The ideas are yours. If you were a project manager then what would be the difference?

[u/jferments → u/JWalter89]

"People who design video games and make a plan to implement them don't have any ownership over what they create, if they hire programmers to write the code for them"

[u/corneliouscorn → u/jferments]

gotta write machine code or the compiler has ownership

[u/xcantene]

I mean if someone wanted to clone your game I think that already tells you someone saw potential and should be a boost for you to make it even better than the clone and actually make it stand out.

This is why a feature or a mechanic is not your game. It is the vibe, the messaging, the essence that you give what makes YOUR game.

[u/Ashamed-Cost-5548 → u/xcantene]

the copy literally use same vibe, messaging, essence, and even the title is paraphrased

[u/StoneCypher]

please stop trying to turn this sub into a complaining sub

this entire story was always self indulgent garbage 

it’s not even vampire survivors.  this is solomon’s boneyard, a much older game

stop fucking complaining all the time 

you can’t finish your game if you’re in a moral panic on reddit twice a day and never look anything up 

[u/Last-Captain-8920]

This is the new market. High effort techniques that are expensive or time consuming for AI will be the next indie. System heavy, simple sprite games like Cult of the Lamb, or this guys game, will be the next free itchio games.

[u/Ashamed-Cost-5548 → u/Last-Captain-8920]

you dont understand why people play Cult of the Lamb then

[u/Winter_Aspect_8675]

Considering there's about a hundred similar clones out there he should probably be flattered that someone spent the time to copy his garbage.

[u/Ashamed-Cost-5548 → u/Winter_Aspect_8675]

okay. list 5 games out of the hundred that use same art style, vibe, messaging, UI layout, and paraphrased title to the game in this case

[u/Sch4k4l]

I read the original post on this topic and ws shocked.

If the entire game mechanics and graphic style are copied 1 an 1, that’s really a despicable thing to do.

Aside from the financial consequences, this also has the potential to cause real harm to oneself... specifically, one’s mental health and longterm motivation for one’s vision.

I’m often accused of having cloned a drawing game. I reject that accusation. Sure, there have been games before where you could paint the in-game world according to your own creative ideas to have a fun pastime. In one form or another, everything has existed before in some way.

But in your case, your intellectual property was literally snatched away from you and exploited in a morally repugnant cloning industry.

[u/catbluesgames]

what if he create clone to create controversies himself so his game will sell more. Just a thought 🤔