What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?
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They used AI imagery on their home page so them vibe coding their way into this pickle is honestly unsurprising.
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Since there are two games with the same name and one of them is displaying some dubious behavior so far…
Can we get some links to these games? Like this url is the ‘good’ one and this one is the ‘bad’ one?

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@catzilla This is the one that I referenced in my post above.
Honestly if they had just asked “hey can we use this is that cool” at the start, or said at any point “my bad, I think the AI scooped it and I didn’t know,” there wouldn’t be an issue. It’s the obfuscation and weird refusal to credit a coder with his code beyond the “idea” that frustrates me.
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@Ashkuri said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@catzilla This is the one that I referenced in my post above.
Honestly if they had just asked “hey can we use this is that cool” at the start, or said at any point “my bad, I think the AI scooped it and I didn’t know,” there wouldn’t be an issue. It’s the obfuscation and weird refusal to credit a coder with his code beyond the “idea” that frustrates me.
Totally agreed. Like, character wiki code ‘stealing’ is common and nobody bats an eye (rightfully so). So if this person was like, ‘oh I thought this was in the same guidelines, my bad’ or whatever, then no problem. Or even offering to put a ‘inspired by Trashcan’s code’ credit or something.
The double down denying is always so weird.

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FWIW, the Age of Heroes that is not copying anything and appeared to have the name picked out on an aresmush.com domain before anyone knew Ages of Heroes The Bad One existed is called Superheroes MUSH now https://superheroesmush.com/
The name thing seems shittier and shittier (and more deliberate) as more stuff comes up and must’ve been a bummer as gamerunner trying to get their own project off the ground.