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A Japanese web page has my game, what do I do next?

A topic by PeterMX created Sep 19, 2019 Views: 974 Replies: 10
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PeterMX5 years ago

So recently I noticed an uptick in views to my game, I was expecting this since I also uploaded my game on Newgrounds and got to the featured section in the forntpage(which is also crazy) and I had a link to the Itch.io page. However I also noticed that a page I didn't knew was also giving me views hitoikigame.com which is japanese.


I scanned the page with google translate since I don't know japanese but I couldn't find any links to the itch.io page.

What should I do? or should I just leave it as it is since really I don't lose anything?

Here is my game:

https://peter-mx.itch.io/unprepared-adventurer

Here is the page:

http://hitoikigame.com/blog-entry-5846.html

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JITD5 years ago(+1)

There is tons of bots who scan newgrounds and upload the game in their own sites. If you got frontpage, prepare for your game to pop up in more sites. Be happy that this bot made a copy for your itchio link, if the link is in the comments most bots probably won't.

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PeterMX5 years ago

Oh thanks for explaining it. Maybe next time I'll add my name to the menu so I get the recognition.

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firecat5 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

its linking to your page with html iframe, you still get the views and player count but if you feel to take it down go here: http://form1.fc2.com/form/?id=878397

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PeterMX5 years ago

Thanks for sharing this, but I may not go ahead and erase it for now, perhaps I'll update the game to at least show my name.

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X2Sたr5 years ago

Since there not claiming it as there own ( at least from what i know ) then i guess i cant yell SUE THE B#####DS 

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Jeroen P. Broks5 years ago

That does not mean such actions are legal, UNLESS, the game would have a free license, or if the copyright holder did explicitly allow this site to host the game. So yeah, "Sue the b######ds" is actually an option, however the question is if it won't cost more than it will get you.

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Leighton Williams5 years ago

I just noticed one of my games end up on the same site but in the game my name is plastered all over it, including a icon that links to my itch.io page.  It's kind of sucky but it's giving me free marketing, can't complain really.

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PeterMX5 years ago

Yeah, I was thinking the same.

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leafoAdmin5 years ago(+2)

We just deployed a global sitelock across all HTML5 games which should help prevent stuff like this, and link back to your itch.io page for all the current offenders. https://twitter.com/moonscript/status/1197491368907563010

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edulofter5 years ago (1 edit)

I suggest that you directly contact the webmaster or administrator of the website and tell them that this is your game work, which involves personal copyright... 

You ask the webmaster to add a link to itch.io on that Japanese page...

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