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'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo
Moonlighter and Cataclismo studio Digital Sun Games announced yesterday that it had canceled plans to release a wide public playtest of its forthcoming "tower defensevania" roguelike ReVamp . The reason?
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Moonlighter and Cataclismo studio Digital Sun Games announced they have canceled a public playtest of their upcoming “tower defense‑vania” roguelike, ReVamp. The decision follows a surge in rapid clones and decompiles triggered by the rollout of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 AI model, which has flooded platforms like Steam and Roblox with cheap copies. The studio wants to protect ReVamp’s code from theft and prevent opportunistic clones from reaching the market before its scheduled March 2027 release.
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