[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote]
Puzzle Art: Primates is an asset flip, what Valve calls a "fake game". The "developer", My Label Game Studio, took a template from the godawful GameMaker Studio from YoyoGames, slapped a couple of asset flipped sprites on it, and dumped the results onto Steam as a cash grab scam.
Don't believe me? Here's some other asset flips from exactly the same template, all shamelessly dumped on Steam as nasty cash grabs by My Label Game Studio:
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[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1786250]Puzzle Art: Artiodactyls[/url]"
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1767940]Puzzle Art: Birds[/url]"
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1767890]Puzzle Art: Cats[/url]"
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1758120]Puzzle Art: Dogs[/url]"
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1786260]Puzzle Art: Horses[/url]"
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1786270]Puzzle Art: Predators[/url]"
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1786290]Puzzle Art: Reptiles[/url]"
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1786300]Puzzle Art: Rodents[/url]"
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1768000]Puzzle Art: Snakes[/url]"
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Look for yourself... these are all reskins of exactly the same game!
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, "Puzzle Art: Primates" is just a basic template for making a mobile app tier puzzle game with a few pictures of animals ripped off from the internet, 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 are an insult to both PC gamers and to professional game developers who create genuine, high quality PC games. 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. They make it harder for gamers to find genuine games made by honest developers.
To cement the position of this asset flip as nothing but a cash grab, it was dumped onto cheap DailyIndieGame shovelware bundles very shortly after launch. Don't reward this morally bankrupt, unethical behaviour from My Label Game Studio.
