My games got stolen, is there a way to prevent that?

Hello there. This user https://flamewingforever.itch.io/ stole most of my Scratch games and also many other people’s games!

And the stolen game actually appears first on Google search results, which it’s really awful since most people will think that he’s the actual creator (when he’s a thief) and it really harms my future plans for my ideas since I want to make games outside of Scratch in the future.

Not only that, but he had the audacity to swap my name (jackalocked) with his with no effort (and still kept my mascot, somehow…) and he did the same with the other stolen games too.

Is there a way to prevent this from happening? This is pretty upsetting and it looks like that I’m not the only one that got my stuff stolen neither. I already reported the game page and also got help from other people, but I’m still afraid that he will get away with it and that there will be more game thiefs stealing my stuff. If I can’t prevent my games from getting stolen, is it possible to at least make Google search stop making the stolen games appear on the first rows?

His last post was made 100 days ago, so I’m unsure if he’s active anymore so I can’t call him out, but this is still upsetting since he’s getting clicks from stealing my and other’s work and getting to the google search results!

At the bottom of each game you have a link to start a report, that way you report directly to the staff.

Additionally, you can contact Itch supportand report the user directly.

edit:

When Itch deletes that user or their content, it will eventually stop appearing on Google.

There's not much else you can do beforehand, unfortunately it's impossible to protect the code from theft. Only subsequent measures such as reporting to DMCA to have the page deleted can be taken.

Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

Not really. One can make it harder, but whatever is done, someone else can overcome that with a little effort. As you have seen with the modified logo. Watermarked logos are actually a good "prevention" method.

If you have notified Itch, that is pretty much all you can reasonably do. You could take some legal action, but this is usually very difficult, because of the location of the criminal. Maybe the account is even hacked and a few games are from the hacked developer. 

The stolen game appears in search results higher, because Itch is very "relevant" in regards to games. It happens very often. Stolen games, often infected with malware, that are uploaded to Itch and appear within hours on the search engines.