Hey everyone,
This isn't a post I wanted to write, but I'd rather you hear it from us first.
Yesterday, on October 16 a game called "A Game About Needle In A Haystack" by Little Field Studios came out on Steam. It contains code copied from our game. To be clear, this is about our actual code, not a similar idea or similar mechanics.
The haystack in our game, meaning how it's drawn, how you dig into it and how gold, lapis and diamond hay work, is something that took a long time to get working properly. When we looked through their game's files, we found 13 of our classes inside it with the exact same names. More than half of the functions in that part match ours exactly. Some of our own error messages are still in there word for word, including one that points to a shader from our project that doesn't exist in their game.
The copied code matches the versions of our free demo we put out on September 20 and 21, a few weeks before their release.
From what we can tell, the rest of their game (the art, the sounds, the other systems) is their own work. Our problem is the hay code.
We've filed a copyright notice with Valve and we're letting that process play out. We've also saved a full copy of everything we found, in case anything changes.
Please don't go after the developers, spam their page or review bomb their game. It won't help, and it's not how we want this handled. Let Valve do its job.
None of this changes anything for you. I just wanted to make it known so people are not misled.
Thanks for sticking with us. If you have questions, ask in the Discussions or on our Discord. Jahvin,
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