They reached out to iCoder but say the people there “have not been helpful.” Wolfire has appealed twice to Apple about this case of two Lugarus but hasn’t heard back.
Matlin confirmed as much, saying his team squashed bugs and plugged memory leaks in it before putting it on the store.
#Lugaru hd logo code#
That source code, Rosen told Kotaku, is identical to the code of the $US2 version of their game being sold by iCoder. Wolfire even released the source code to Lugaru and claims sales improved because of it. Much of the proceeds for those games went to charity. Wolfire are the people who created the successful Humble Indie Bundles, popular groupings of indie games that sold for whatever price gamers volunteered to pay. The Lugaru/Lugaru thing, however has an added sting for Rosen because his team at Wolfire are big on trust and light on copy protection. Maybe change a letter in the game’s name or go with a title that looks awfully similar. It’s common to see games on Apple’s stores that can confuse shoppers.
#Lugaru hd logo mod#
(That post doesn’t outline the options as Matlin defined them to Kotaku, but it does encourage developers to mod and port the game.) Rosen told Kotaku that going opening the game’s source code was a licence for mods, not for people to sell a game that uses Lugaru’s name, character and graphics. Matlin cites Wolfire’s May 2010 blog post declaring that Lugaru’s source code was now available to anyone as proof that iCoder could sell the game. The Wolfire team has appealed to Apple twice about this situation, though the company hasn’t responded to them.Īn Apple spokesperson told Kotaku that they’re looking into what happened with these two games but was not able to provide specifics about the company’s policies regarding this situation by deadline. In this case, Rosen believes that Apple could or should have seen that the cheap Lugaru was the same game as the one being sold for weeks prior by Wolfire. It’s not clear whether Apple thoroughly checks whether games being sold on its store are clones of others. “It is not uncommon for people to sell pirated copies of our game, but we were completely caught off guard that Apple would approve this for sale on the App Store without any due diligence.” “We are not happy about this situation,” Jeffrey Rosen, one of Lugaru’s creators at Wolfire Games told Kotaku. Plain old “ Lugaru” is what Lugaru’s developers claim is an outright rip-off – their game, their source code, being sold by someone else. “ Lugaru HD” is the original article, sold by the game’s creators. Both versions of the game are currently listed on the Apple Mac Store.
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