Luxocraft

[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b] Luxocraft is an asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated someone else's example/template/tutorial game, changed the name/reskinned a couple of things, and submitted it to Valve as if it was their own game.[/quote] Luxocraft (formerly known as Celestial Creator) is a bare basic sandbox made out of stolen (and copyright infringing) assets from the [url=https://www.worldofleveldesign.com/store/ue4-fundamentals.php]Unity Fundamentals[/url] tutorial sold by World of Level Design (a great resource for people wanting to learn how to make games with Unreal Engine). Worth noting there's no actual game here, you just run around an environment made up of the tutorial assets, and that's it. It can't actually be "played". The developer just took the assets, put his own name on them and slapped a price tag on it. Usually asset flippers like to leave it at that, after all, it's better use of your time making another entirely new asset flip scam instead of revisiting older ones, but in this case the develoiper decided to rename the "game" to "Luxocraft" and then infest it with a mobile app store like cash shop... pivoting from a direct up from price on this scam to a rather hopelessly optimistic attempt to get rich by treating PC gamers like they're mobile peasants. Of course that failed too, even mobile peasants need some kind of actual game before they open up their wallets and buy in-game currency. You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for an asset flip! This comes across as an arrogant delusion of grandeur or an attempt to add a false veneer of legitimacy to what is otherwise shovelware garbage. There's no justification for this shovelware to carry an uneforceable EULA. And, amusingly, this EULA is law breaking because in it, the developer claims ownership and exclusive rights over someone else's game assets. That's illegal. This kind of asset flipping isn't harmless. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games from ethical developers. It makes it harder for genuine indie developers, who put hard work into trying to make real games, to find an audience for their products. It gives indie developers a bad name. So, should you download this asset flip? Is this better than any of the 110,000+ genuinely made games on Steam? Of course not! Unethically made games, especially ones which breach international copyright law for profit, are never worth adding to your library. Special thanks go out to SidAlpha and the guys from Sentinels of the Store who uncovered this unethical disaster and raised awareness of it. The good work they do often goes unthanked, but it's invaluable in helping gamers avoid bad and unethically created products. Like Luxocraft.