My Little Prince - a jigsaw puzzle tale

[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote] My Little Prince - a jigsaw puzzle tale is a Unity Asset flip, what Valve calls a "fake game". The "developer", Mens Sana Interactive, took the [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/-49279]Jigsaw Puzzle Creator Kit[/url] Unity Store tutorial/demo/game asset pack from the real developers, Allebi, changed the name, and dumped the result onto Steam. They got artwork from Katia Numakura, it's unclear if this is commissioned or they just "borrowed" it, but that's irrelevant. What's happened here is Mens Sana took someone else's art, and someone else's Jigsaw template, slapped the two together over the course of probably half an hour, and dumped the result on Steam... trying to get your money for someone else's work. It's a scam. 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, "Jigsaw Puzzle Creator Kit" is just an asset pack for doing a simple jigsaw game, combined with art assets from someone else, 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 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. 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. Don't reward this unethical behaviour from Mens Sana Interactive.