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We have reached a new threshold in genAI gloom, with a game dev cancelling a demo for fear of copycats ripping them off before release
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We have reached a new threshold in genAI gloom, with a game dev cancelling a demo for fear of copycats ripping them off before release

Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed·Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·7 days ago
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Drunken Goddess Reflux to get limited-access showing instead

Image credit: Alliance Arts

In what I suspect is the start of a trend, assuming it isn't one already, the creators of Drunken Goddess Reflux have yanked a planned public demo partly because they're concerned about people using generative AI to clone their game and release a copy before they even launch.

New to Drunken Goddess Reflux? It's a drinking game in which you try to make a bouncy and buxom demon throw up before she imbibes your soul. I would not be very good at this game, but that's all fine, because I'm a games journalist and therefore do not have a soul. In a post on the eighth circle of Hell (Twitter) earlier today, developers Alliance Arts apologise for cancelling a public demo that was due to run on 19th October. They're going to hold limited-access online play sessions instead.

They give two reasons for the decision.…

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