Decently Bad Tower Defense

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[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote] Decently Bad Tower Defense is an asset flip, what Valve calls a "fake game". The "developer", Pretty Bad Studios, took the [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beuoNuK2tbk]How to make a Tower Defense Tutorial[/url] tutorial/demo/game asset pack from the real developers, Brackeys, changed the name, and dumped the result onto Steam. Usually this is done as a scam, but for whatever reason this is free, so these guys just took someone else's game tutorial, put their name on it, then paid Valve $100 to publish someone else's work on Steam. Yeah, doesn't make a lot of sense. Maybe they just wanted to pretend that they're game developers. It's intellectually dishonest to claim someone else's work as your own. Asset flips don't involve any professional game development. Sure, sometimes they may change a few cosmetic things, swap out different assets etc, but at heart it's functionally identical to the asset they're ripping off. The products that result from asset flips aren't "real" games. They lack depth and content, because they're just simplistic copies of demos or tutorials. In this case, "How to make a Tower Defense Tutorial" is just a youtube tutorial and asset pack for making a tower defense game, and doesn't have any merit as a proper, fully fledged PC game, so a copy+paste of it can't be recommended. Asset flips like this are harmful to the gaming industry and to Steam because they reduce the visibility that sincerely made indie games should have, and make it harder for gamers to find real games from genuine developers. Because this is just a tutorial pack from Brackeys, I can't recommend anyone wastes their time downloading this.