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Moonlighter dev delays Steam playtest for its "Tower Defensevania" ReVamp over concerns that AI copycats might clone it before launch
Digital Sun - the indie studio behind moreish roguelike Moonlighter and moody RTS Cataclismo - has delayed a planned Steam playtest for its next game, ReVamp, citing concerns over "games being reverse-engineered, cloned and published…
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Digital Sun, the indie studio behind Moonlighter and Cataclismo, has postponed a Steam playtest for its upcoming title ReVamp. The game features a vampiric “Tower Defensevania” design that the studio intended to showcase near the end of the month. Developers cited a rising trend of generative‑AI tools being used to reverse‑engineer, clone, and publish both existing and unreleased games as the reason for the delay. The postponement aims to protect the project from potential AI‑driven copycats before its official launch.
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