The developer of looter shooter The First Descendant has stated it can change the icons within the recreation after it was accused of copying Bungie’s Destiny 2.
The First Descendant, a free-to-play shooter from Korean video games firm Nexon presently blowing up on Steam, was accused of utilizing “barely-changed” Destiny 2 icons quickly after launch. Forbes pointed to the exceptional similarities between icons utilized by developer Bungie for its veteran looter shooter and people utilized by Nexon for its new looter shooter challenger.
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Amid the accusations, one Bungie icon artist tweeted to say it “appears like an important day to point out that Bungie icon artists are a super-crew of proficient of us with unique concepts and sharp instincts.”
Followers subsequently unearthed proof to recommend the basis of the issue may need been an icon database referred to as Iconduck that contains a Destiny Icons set that features 204 icons, all supposedly open sourced with a Inventive Commons Zero v1.0 Common license. “All icons can be utilized for private and business functions,” Iconduck claims on its web site.
The designer of the icon set defined that many of the icons within the set have been “ripped from the font recordsdata created by Bungie and its designers.” On the time, followers speculated that Nexon may need used these Destiny icons from Iconduck and tweaked them barely for The First Descendant.
In a press release issued to IGN, Nexon failed to clarify the method it used for the icons in query, however did admit that Destiny 2 “served as an inspiration in the course of the improvement course of” and promised to make modifications.
Right here’s Nexon’s assertion in full:
“The First Descendant, as a looter shooter recreation, was developed with a deep affection and respect for different video games within the style. Destiny 2, being a globally famend looter shooter recreation, can also be personally admired and revered by the group, and it has served as an inspiration in the course of the improvement course of. We’ve got taken the issues raised critically and determined to make changes to be certain that the imagery that will seem comparable clearly displays the distinctive id of our recreation. We’ll proceed to enhance the sport for followers of the looter shooter style.”
Usually talking, The First Descendant is a mash-up of mechanics from numerous looter shooters already out there. There’s greater than a whiff of Destiny about The First Descendant’s design, methods, and mechanics, however then there’s additionally lots of Warframe about it, too.
This week, Nexon launched a major replace for The First Descendant that makes some massive modifications to the sport, and leaves some points of it that had change into a subject of debate inside the group nicely alone.
IGN’s The First Descendant evaluation returned a 5/10. We stated: “The First Descendant has all of the constructing blocks of a improbable looter shooter, however they’re buried beneath a pile of monotonous quests, a horrible story, and an infuriating free-to-play mannequin that has influenced its recreation design within the worst potential means.”
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