#Enchanted portals cuphead ripoff full#

There seem to be quite a lot of continental studios (often students or recent graduates) crowdfunding games that are blatant grab-bags of things they like from indie hits from the last few years. It used to be a good plan, but I'm thinking that as folk get used to it it's much less of a smart move. The only reason to do what they've done is to attract controversy and hope that works in their favour. Make the same game with a different art style and they'd be good.

Why wouldn't you spend your time doing something new? Pin that art style on a different genre and they'd have been sorted. The concept of Enchanted Portals is that two rookie magicians have lost their way through time and space, and must defeat bosses to find the pages of their spellbook and return home. A new indie game called Enchanted Portals has drawn backlash for having many similarities to Oakville, Ontario-based Studio MDHR’s run-and-gunner Cuphead. But why would you? As he said - there is a shedload of work involved there, and most of it looks decent quality. It's that double whammy of copying both art style and core game idea that makes it FEEL so brazen, but legally they're probably OK. Luxor was the main one of those and Luxor Evolved was the standout of these. But it's exactly the same as the Zuma cloning that went on back in the day - and the people buying Zuma clones had probably already bought Zuma and just wanted more (and yes, I'm aware Zuma ripped off something else that I can't remember right now, but I hope you get my drift). The game design is different obviously, so that's probably the main thing here, and I can't see anyone suing - it's just morally a bit tawdry. I mean - none of it is actually half-inched, but they've definitely just copied exactly what Cuphead did. So this is interesting, because they've copied the idea of the game - which is absolutely fine, but then they've gone and aped the art style quite closely too.

#Enchanted portals cuphead ripoff full#

The basic gist of copyright law is that you can't copyright an idea, only the implementation (what it looks like, the characters, the sound effects etc.) So anyone is free to write a book about a school full of wizards, but if you call one of them Harry Potter you're screwed. Published The Enchanted Portals Kickstarter campaign has been delayed indefinitely as Xixo Games Studios finishes negotiations with a prospective publisher.