Just two days ago I found out that someone has stolen my work from original Submachine1 using reverse engineering and then put those stolen graphics, stolen sounds and, most importantly stolen code into his game and called it his own. Not cool at all. The game is called Escape Da House 5, and obviously I won’t post a link to it here. You can google it up if you want to see this monstrosity with your own eyes, since the game is horrible, not only because the stolen goods but because gameplay is lame as hell and the creator has no sense of color whatsoever. The construction of menu and inventory shows his abilities in the field of programming (what happened, couldn’t you just steal that from the Submachine as well?) so feel free to play it and have a laugh about it. You can also comment on his site and even email him with congrats on a job well done, since you can easily find those contacts under the credits button in the game itself.

This may sound bitter, but I assure you it’s not. Honestly – it made me stronger, since everywhere I went (everywhere meaning some sites that host this game and hold comment section) people were recognizing the rip-off. And that was making me smile, because Submachines are a recognizable trademark and you can’t just steal it because it will not go unpunished.

The second thing – watching this game’s poor gameplay all I can say to it’s creator is – it’s not all about the graphics or coding or sounds that you can steal anytime anywhere. It’s all about THE STORY, man.

And last but not least: I feel strong, because I have my fans behind my back. They support me. I feel their breath on my shoulder, not only pushing me to create more games with better quality, but allowing me to just say:

so what?

when situation like this one occurs. Like Tony Soprano used to say: what can you do?… Sue his ass someone said – well it’s not worth the effort nor time. I’d rather make a new game. Gnomes, anyone?

Special thanks! goes to Karen Maple and Eric Himmelsbach who emailed me about this problem, and ShadowsQuest2500 who wrote about this on my forum.

ps – I know the timing of this post is somewhat unlucky, but I assure you this is not an april fool’s joke. :D