Oddly similar art

[JAlfredGoodwin]

https://youtu.be/WlhHJoQnt5k

This looks a lot like the flagships from AI War...

Coincidence?

[JAlfredGoodwin]

I downloaded the demo - there are several other art assets being used.

I have issues with this, I hope Arcen sees this post soon.

[Traveller]

Arcen used a lot of public domain or otherwise freely-available assets in AI War.  For example, raid starships were used in the old game Tyrian--and those assets are publicly available.  95% likely that this other game took from the same asset archive, so chill.

[Coppermantis]

Yeah, a ton of AI War's original assets were from public domain collections. In fact, AI War itself was accused of asset theft at least once that I know of, but it's all a-okay.

[JAlfredGoodwin]

I did not know that the assets were public domain.

I just was a bit confused seeing so many things, since this is a relatively recent appearance on my games-radar.

[Traveller]

Yeah, art is generally like...20-30%? of Arcen games' budget, and public domain stuff can save a looooot of capital.

So, see it as a company trying to get on its feet, and enjoy that it's not too bad of art!

[Draco18s]

And over here you can get the assets for yourself.