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VCFundedGenYertoday at 1:31 PM4 repliesview on HN

Outsider here.

The screenshots are literally Minecraft screenshots. It's a clone, and not a subtle one either.

To call this "Baseless" is hilarious.


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joey486DX4today at 1:54 PM

> The screenshots are literally Minecraft screenshots.

They're not. It's a voxel game engine with an open source history dating back a year (October 2010) before Minecraft 1.0 was released (November 2011).

There are plenty of games for Luanti that have different textures and objectives.

It's all open source. Download it and try some of the different games.

Supermanchotoday at 1:44 PM

Also outsider (like it matters).

> The screenshots are literally Minecraft screenshots.

Irrelevant to the DMCA claim.

> It's a clone, and not a subtle one either.

You are incorrect. Luanti is not a minecraft clone. It's more akin to Godot. I can import Minecraft assets into Godot, but it does not make Godot a copyright violator because of my actions.

> To call this "Baseless" is hilarious.

I would say it's justified.

Retr0idtoday at 1:50 PM

They are not any more Minecraft screenshots than Minecraft screenshots are Roblox screenshots.

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danaristoday at 1:43 PM

That's...straight-up false. Unless you have some source for this, you're just lying here.

Yes, it's inspired by Minecraft. The screenshots are of voxel-based survival crafter games you can build with their platform. The textures are not Minecraft textures. They are similar in style, sure, but that's not remotely the same thing. You can't copyright a general visual style, nor can you copyright a game genre.

To call this anything but "baseless" would be hilarious.

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