{"id":34365,"date":"2012-03-18T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=34365"},"modified":"2012-03-19T14:57:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:57:52","slug":"igf-award-winner-accuses-developer-of-ip-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/34365-igf-award-winner-accuses-developer-of-ip-theft","title":{"rendered":"IGF award winner accuses developer of IP theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20967-IGF-Independent-Games-Festival\">Independent Games Festival<\/a> Student Showcase award-winning platformer game One and One Story has come up for sale on iTunes. Except the developer, <a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/23455-Mattia-Traverso\">Mattia Traverso<\/a>, didn\u2019t put it there, and knew nothing about it. Oops.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old has accused Vietnamese mobile developer <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/23457-Afoli-JSC\">Afoli, JSC<\/a>. of stealing the art assets and design of the game, which it then used to create an \u201cHD\u201d version that\u2019s been selling for 99 cents on iTunes since Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Traverso\u2019s game has been free to play through various Flash websites since 2011. Traverso said that he had not encrypted the game\u2019s code before releasing it. He said he\u2019s tried to contact <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20713-Apple-Inc\">Apple<\/a> multiple times, but is yet to receive a response.<\/p>\n<p>According to Traverso, &#8220;The game is exactly the same, but done worse. It was coded from scratch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also tweeted, &#8220;The assets were stolen\u2026 and stretched.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The developer in question, Afoli, appears to sell a number of \u201cHD remakes\u201d of otherwise free flash games on the iTunes store, including Gold Mine Ultimate HD, Crow in Hell HD and Mushroom Farm Defense HD.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t known whether or not Afoli has any legitimate rights or permissions to sell these games; although given Traverso\u2019s outrage it looks dubious.<\/p>\n<p>Traverso is looking to have the game removed via a Digital Millennium Copyright Act filing.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Gamespot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/news\/igf-finalist-accuses-ios-dev-of-ip-theft-6366654\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free flash game One and One Story clone appears on iTunes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":34366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226,3],"tags":[31,2769,2768,2767,2766,2765],"class_list":["post-34365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","category-pc","tag-active","tag-afoli","tag-igf","tag-independent-games-festival","tag-mattia-traverso","tag-one-and-one-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34367,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34365\/revisions\/34367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}