An indie game developer has accused a fellow dev of using AI to rip off his game, a first-person, physics-based title where players peel potatoes.
Independent game developer Rado Klasa is going viral after pointing out a glaring similarity between his game, called 1,000,000 Potatoes, and another title named Potato Please. Both have a similar premise; players peel potatoes using physics-based engines. Each game takes place in a Soviet-style military setting. They both seem horror-adjacent.
Klasa posted about his game back in July; on September 20, game consultant Indie Game Joe shared a trailer for Golden Horn Studios’ Potato Please. It didn’t take long for Klasa to come across the post, prompting him to speak out about what he is calling blatant intellectual theft.
made a dumb little game where you peel 1,000,000 potatoes by hand in a cold soviet warehouse. thought it would take a weekend.potato 15 had a tooth in it. i kept going.#screenshotsaturday #indiegame pic.twitter.com/WBXx2XRqeI
Klasa believes that Golden Horn directly stole the idea for his game and accused them of using artificial intelligence to do so, describing the situation as “every indie dev’s worst nightmare.”
“I created this concept for the GMTK game jam,” he explained. “I held off on my Steam page to obsessively polish the mechanics... and it just got cloned and shipped. Probably mostly with a simple AI prompt.”
“I’ve spent time refining the game feel, controls, and details,” he added. “It hurts to see a rushed clone beat me to market, but I refuse to let a cheap copy win. The original version will always have the quality players actually deserve.”
It’s every indie dev's worst nightmare.I created this concept for the GMTK game jam. I held off on my Steam page to obsessively polish the mechanics... and it just got cloned and shipped. Probably mostly with a simple AI prompt.Here’s my original build vs theirs 👇 https://t.co/4Ri1y0R3J6
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