Game theft and the importance of licences

Hey !

I just found out that some crappy Turkish game studio just took my sources, updated the graphics and released MY GAME on the Google Play store.

I'm sure they used my sources because :

• The level chunks are identical
• The line renderer is exactly the same
• The SFX are the ones I made during the jam

And of course they put some ads and crappy microtransactions !

Since I didn't bother looking into licences before putting my sources online (Ludum dare rush ftw), I don't have much options to take it down.

I sent a DMCA request to Google just in case, but I'm not confident it'll ever make it through.

So, if you want to help me, go on their game page and comment that this isn't the original!

I hope my mistakes serves as a cautionary tales to all small developers : learn about licences. One day this could happen to you !

All the love !

Pierre