Suspicious NFT game found nicking art from indies vanishes from Twitter

Distrustful NFT game found nicking prowess from indies vanishes from Chitter

A fantasy adventurer looks out over a mountainous landscape

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Epic Hero Battles, an NFT game that was trying to shift 10,000 randomly generated heroes, has near wiped itself off the internet aft independent developer Dan Hindes accused it of stealing prowess from his game, Wildfire.

Coming into court over the weekend, EHB is some other crypto gamy that, while not quite ready for set in motion, was already offering to sell procgen wizards and sidekicks every bit NFTs in its planned torpedo-battling duels (or, more credible, to resell on crypto markets). But as Hindes rapidly noticed, there was something awfully familiar about the key artistic creation used on the game's site.

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"Love to see the thing you've put the rummy well-nig amount of effort into in your life get appropriated for a techbro-born satellite-destroying pyramid scheme," Hindes wrote in a follow-up tweet.

In response, the EHB developer wrote that it was an honest mistake, saying it forgot to check the graphics sourced from its web dev and that information technology wouldn't happen again. Unfortunately, the peripheral alerted other artists who found EHB had nicked pixel art for its development roadmap and twitter header (via Kotaku). Epic Hero Battles has since deleted its Twitter account—and while its website is relieve active, it's been bare of all art assets.

The brazenness of Epic Hero Battles' theft speaks to a Sojourner Truth behind the bulk of NFT projects—that for all their talk of empowering artists, the crypto community is more happy to bargain from them, even scraping images remove Twitter in attempts to make some (fake, online) cash. It's a ready to hand reminder that NFTs are an environmentally damnable scheme that doesn't offer safety or security department to artists, only the potential of benefit for those willing to tap creators.

That said, IT's not solitary crypto common people who are guilty of larceny artistry. Anyone else remember this John Ford franchise's less-than-legitimate tie-in with wilderness walking sim Firewatch?

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