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Runic's president, Travis Baldree, said yesterday via Twitter that the game 'wholesale stole most of the assets from Torchlight!' Baldree then directly Tweeted the game's account, saying 'you realize that since Armed Heroes lifts assets wholesale from Torchlight, we have to notify Apple, right?' He later repeated these same statements to TouchArcade and provided this collage as proof. Nearly every visual asset in this game is taken directly from the acclaimed dungeon-crawler Torchlight, by Runic Games, for PC. Twiddling the geometry a little bit and doing minor texture alterations doesn't equate to original artwork or even artwork 'inspired by.''Īrmed Heroes Online, a game released last week to the Canadian iTunes store, is one of the most blatant cases of theft I have ever seen in an iOS app or game, and considering the shitshow of fakes and ripoffs that store is, that's saying a lot. 'Posting pictures of random models with no association isn't much of a defense, I'm sorry. But we don't include any Diablo artwork or sounds in our game. 'We are obviously inspired by Diablo, and make no bones about it. 'I have no problem with inspiration,' he wrote. In a response to Zhang, Baldree posted two more comparison images. 'Moreover, if anyone has ever pay attention to games of similar themes, he or she should have found that there are always several games of same type compete with and learn from each other's game designs, functions and other settings.'īut Baldree says Armed Heroes directly took assets from Torchlight, and indeed, the above image makes that seem pretty clear. Travis Baldree can note that the similarity between Armed Heroes and Torchlight may be due to that we both learn from Blizzard, unless you are suggesting that except you the rest must not learn these advanced skills from Blizzard who has long been one of the great leaders within the industry,' Zhang wrote. (Runic consists of a number of former Blizzard North employees who worked on the Diablo series.) She also pointed to similarities between skills in Torchlight and Diablo II, saying Runic drew inspiration from other games too. As proof, she posted several Armed Heroes images lined up next to character models from Torchlight. He also unzipped sound effect files from the game and said they shared the same names as many of the files in Torchlight.īut in a post this afternoon, a Touch Arcade user named Serena Zhang who says she is from Armed Heroes developer EGLS said they'd 'never straightly stole assets from Torchlight,' claiming they drew inspiration from World of Warcraft and other games. Over the weekend, Runic Games President Travis Baldree pointed out that Armed Heroes Online had stolen a large number of art assets from his company's action-RPG Torchlight, posting an art montage (below) as proof. The creators of action-role-playing game Armed Heroes Online have denied allegations that they ripped off Torchlight's art assets, taking to the Touch Arcade forums today to call the claims 'untenable.' On Saturday, Travis Baldree, the president of Torchlight publisher Runic Games, told Kotaku that Armed Heroes' copying was so comprehensive it even included the sound effect for a 'joke weapon' in Torchlight-a sound effect which is the voice of a Runic developer.īaldree also told Joystiq that he looked through the files for Armed Heroes and found a sound asset manifest that was 'verbatim all of our sound files, including our own misspellings.'Īpple's removed the game from its stores and, one assumes, it won't be coming back.Īlleged Torchlight copycat Armed Heroes taken down from App Store As long as this carves out a way out of angry disputes, it will be definitely worth our efforts.'Īt last, we want to make clear, if necessary, that we would like to submit the documents, files and other materials related to the game developing to Apple to prove the originalities of the game and the efforts we devoted into the game developing. There, we prefer to modify some parts of Armed Heroes Online where have caused those disputes rather than go on arguing. I think? both claims it did nothing wrong while offering to modify the game to resolve any disputes. That doesn't mean Armed Heroes publisher EGLS is slinking off. The takedown came about a week after demands from Torchlight's lawyers.

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The mall cops in the iTunes App Store today finally ejected Armed Heroes Online, a Chinese-published MMO, sold only in iTunes' Canadian store, which evidently stole most, if not all, of its audiovisual assets from the PC dungeon-crawling hit Torchlight.

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