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Endless pile of Needle In Haystack games begins to emerge, as viral hit imitator's devs claim their code was nicked by a genAI-using clone
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Endless pile of Needle In Haystack games begins to emerge, as viral hit imitator's devs claim their code was nicked by a genAI-using clone

Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed·Mark Warren·8 days ago
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In a metaphor far too on the nose to turn into any form of fiction, at least without the writer getting mercilessly cyberbullied, a game about finding a needle in a haystack has now become the genuine needle at the heart of a pile of imitators. A pile so large, in fact, one copycat game stands accused of ripping code from another.

NoGlyph, developers of Needle In A Haystack , have claimed that their code's been nicked by A Game About Needle In A Haystack devs Little Field Studios. The former game was released on September 29th this year. The latter came out on October 16th.…

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