Arsen Torosian strikes again (ripped off my game and published on app store)
DigiChain
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I've just noticed that redacted (a well known gamesalad pirate/thief) has a version of my very first Gamesalad game for sale on the app store! He's had it for sale for ages - but I didn't realise. He most likely got hold of it from the Gamesalad Arcade when projects could easily be ripped.
My game was called Aimless and is playable on GameSalad Arcade here:
http://arcade.gamesalad.com/game/34991?filter=newest&platform=html5&q=aimless
His ripped version of my game is called Clickers, on the app store here:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/clickers/id586159389?mt=8
Does anyone whose been through the process have any tips on what I need to do to get Apple to remove it??
Also, from previous threads I believed Gamesalad had taken action to remove his publishing rights (due to the amount of ripped-off Gamesalad games he had published)...
However he has just released yet another version of his adventure game 'The Secret of Father Simons', this time named 'A Fathers Secret'. So if there was a ban he's clearly found a way around it.
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When you say "ripped" do you mean somehow he has gotten ahold of the actual code or is it a clone? After Flappy we all know games get cloned...if this is the case...I would not publish and game to the arcade I intended to also publish to the app store. Also...I thought you had to click the button that allows the code to be taken during a publish to the arcade. I dont know if this is a new thing but I would make sure your not allowing that.
It's ripped. Some of the gfx are identical, others have been modified slightly, level design/layout identical.
In the early days of the Arcade project files could easily be extracted from the published game... it was also pretty straight forward to reverse engineer a Gamesalad game back to the project file. Arsen was involved in all of this which is why I've no doubt this is a ripped game.
Here's a couple of old threads all about him:
http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/272909#Comment_272909
http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/30393/another-rip-off-from-softgamers-no-this-time-is-a-plagiarism
Damn, I hate people like this, sorry to hear you've been ripped off.![:\](http://54.200.112.213/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/twitter/confused.png ":\")