[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote]
Spiceshifter is an asset flip, what Valve calls a "fake game". The "developer", Piece of Voxel, 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.
Piece of Voxel has shown a repeated pattern of ripping off GameMakerStudio templates and dumping them on Steam.
Don't believe me? Here's another asset flip from exactly the same template, shamelessly dumped on Steam as a nasty cash grab: Defaloon, asset flipped by vuzimu/OPG EUPHORE. Take a look. It's exactly the same game! It even has the same ugly screen filter that you can't turn off!
This unethical behaviour should be no surprise, as Piece of Voxel are known asset flippers who've previously taken the work of real developers, changed the title and put their own name on it, so they can sell it on Steam and try to scam gamers and get paid for someone else's work.
Take a look at this:
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[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1547820]Top Truck Driver[/url]" = [url=https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/assets/5820/hill-racing-template-gms1-2]Hill Racing Template[/url] developed by Janko Knez
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1660460]Hoples[/url]" = [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/characters/pixel-adventure-1-155360]Pixel Adventure 1[/url] developed by Pixel Frog
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1587940]DuelVox Max Quality[/url]" = [url=https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/western-desert-town]Western Desert Town[/url] developed by KK Design
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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, "Spiceshifter" is just a Wolf3D ripoff primitive raycaster FPS template, 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. To cement the position of this asset flip as nothing but a cash grab, it was dumped onto cheap DailyIndieGame shovelware bundles on launch day.
Don't reward this morally bankrupt, unethical behaviour from Piece of Voxel.
