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TREK Industries remove Orion: Prelude from Steam, fires artist who stole Call of Duty assets
David James, one of the developers at Spiral Game Studios/TREK Industries (remember, they are virtually the same thing), has commented on the asset plagiarism case. James is still pleading ignorance on the DMCA request, suggesting Activision have unfairly taken down his game due to insufficient evidence. James goes on to say that he doesn’t see the similarities between Call of Duty’s Auto Shotgun and the shotgun in Orion: Prelude, but he sees similarities in the sights and bolts… Once the Orion developers received information from Activision about the stolen assets, including assets that ‘supposedly’ people in the public didn’t know about, they finally realised the assets had been stolen.
Activision pull down an indie game from Steam over stolen Call of Duty assets
The developer of ORION: Prelude has said Activision forced Valve to pull his game from Steam, a decision that was made due to stolen assets. The assets found in ORION: Prelude, specifically the weapon assets have been taken from Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. While the indie developers haven’t taken the entire weapon, it’s clear they’ve taken parts of the weapons and, well, glued them together. That’s not all, though. Spiral Game Studios, the developers of ORION: Prelude are trying to claim that Activision have no grounds to pull their game down. The developers argue even if the design was 1:1, it would not be enough for a design infraction.
Orion: Prelude, "one of the worst games of all time", still supported three years after launch
"In 2012 we released one of the worst games of all time," says developer Spiral Game Studios, with an odd sort of pride, "And now you can try and play it for free for an entire week starting May 4, 2015." The game in question is dinosaurs versus space marines shooter Orion: Prelude, which was received with about as much enthusiasm as a condom full of wasps when it launched three years ago.