[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote]
Square Head Zombies 2 - FPS Game is a Digital Homicide style Unity Asset flip, what Valve calls a "fake game". The "developer", Sabrina Aridi/Fabio Cunha (watch him change his account to try hide his identity and mislead gamers!), took the a bunch of Unity asset store assets and dumped them in a blender. The first level of this "game" is [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/props/interior/simple-shop-interiors-cartoon-assets-38029]Simple Shop Interiors - Cartoon assets[/url] Unity Store tutorial/demo/game asset pack from the real developers, Synty Studios. The game engine itself is copy + pasted lazily as well, it's the [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/game-toolkits/ufps-ultimate-fps-233711]UFPS Ultimate FPS pack[/url] developed by Opsive.
Nowhere did Sabrina Aridi credit the actual developers who did they work for this game, they just took the work of others and put their own name on it. Maybe that's not against the terms of use for those assets, but it is plagiarism, and highly unethical.
It gets worse... "Simple Shop Interiors - Cartoon assets" has also been shamelessly dumped on Steam by other asset flippers apart from Sabrina Aridi:
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[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1031840]Shop Battle[/url]", asset flipped by stariy8419/Garage Games
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Take a look for yourself... it's [i]exactly the same![/i]
Sabrina Aridi/Fabio Cunha has shown a repeat pattern of unethically dumping other people's work onto Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab. Here's some examples so you can see for yourself:
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[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1018960]Thugs Law[/url]" = [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/urban/polygon-battle-royale-low-poly-3d-art-by-synty-128513]Polygon Battle Royale[/url] developed by Synty Studios
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/756560]Robot Warriors[/url]" = [url=https://forum.unity.com/threads/agk-action-game-kit-v1-5.202654/]AKG: Action Game Kit[/url] developed by Mijikai Games
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/726070]Hidden Object - Sweet Home[/url]" = [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/hidden-objects-game-starter-kit-19927]Hidden Objects game - Starter Kit[/url] developed by Allebi Games
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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, "Simple Shop Interiors - Cartoon assets" is just a low poly asset pack for a simple shop interior that the "developer" has used with the UFPS game pack and some low poly zombie and gun assets to make a minimum viable shovelware product, and doesn't have any merit as a proper, fully fledged PC game.
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 morally bankrupt, unethical behaviour from Sabrina Aridi/Fabio Cunha. They're trying to scam gamers into paying them $12 USD for someone else's work, and that's not okay.
