/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>67216802
>Answer me this. Is palworld plagiarism but the 50 other Pokemon ripoff games who copy the presentation gameplay and combat ideas almost one for one not plagiarism?

Let me make it clear to you the stakes here, I dont hate palworld, my friends are playing it and I don't judge them just liek when my friends played the Harry Potter game, if you want to enjoy the game by all means please enjoy.

But when I looked at the trailer for it I thought "hmm why do these designs lack consistancy, theme, and quality? This is weird..." And I ultimately decided not to play it because I want to save money and time for Grandblue Relink, but after seeing side by side comparisons it's obvious they just fed models into ai and touched them up. I even question how much they touched it up becaus ethings like the rendering on the cats forehead would never be accepted by a professional artist's hand if they had any experience, I can literally see the sloppy computers decisions that they did not catch.

You bring up other games combat and rules, but those fall under ideas, and those are limited and we need to keep ideas free so people can build on those ideas. But design and ideas are not the same thing. Design should offer infinite possibilies....

so yes you can have the same idea of a cheshire grinning cat, that is 100% ok, but when the eye, mouth, teeth placement, general shapes are all similar well it's more akin to a tracing and yes I feel like it is plagerised as much as Sonichu is not an original design just because you mashed them together.

This stuff is complicated and I think about it a lot im not trying to make you feel bad about playing or eenjoying Palworld, but those developers scammed you in a way when presenting these monsters "they designed" when they really hardly designed anything at all here.