(Runic consists of a number of former Blizzard North employees who worked on the Diablo series.) She also pointed to similarities between skills in Torchlight and Diablo II, saying Runic drew inspiration from other games too. As proof, she posted several Armed Heroes images lined up next to character models from Torchlight. He also unzipped sound effect files from the game and said they shared the same names as many of the files in Torchlight.īut in a post this afternoon, a Touch Arcade user named Serena Zhang who says she is from Armed Heroes developer EGLS said they'd "never straightly stole assets from Torchlight," claiming they drew inspiration from World of Warcraft and other games. Over the weekend, Runic Games President Travis Baldree pointed out that Armed Heroes Online had stolen a large number of art assets from his company's action-RPG Torchlight, posting an art montage (below) as proof. The creators of action-role-playing game Armed Heroes Online have denied allegations that they ripped off Torchlight's art assets, taking to the Touch Arcade forums today to call the claims "untenable." On Saturday, Travis Baldree, the president of Torchlight publisher Runic Games, told Kotaku that Armed Heroes' copying was so comprehensive it even included the sound effect for a "joke weapon" in Torchlight-a sound effect which is the voice of a Runic developer.īaldree also told Joystiq that he looked through the files for Armed Heroes and found a sound asset manifest that was "verbatim all of our sound files, including our own misspellings."Īpple's removed the game from its stores and, one assumes, it won't be coming back.Īlleged Torchlight copycat Armed Heroes taken down from App Store As long as this carves out a way out of angry disputes, it will be definitely worth our efforts."Īt last, we want to make clear, if necessary, that we would like to submit the documents, files and other materials related to the game developing to Apple to prove the originalities of the game and the efforts we devoted into the game developing. There, we prefer to modify some parts of Armed Heroes Online where have caused those disputes rather than go on arguing. I think? both claims it did nothing wrong while offering to modify the game to resolve any disputes. That doesn't mean Armed Heroes publisher EGLS is slinking off. The takedown came about a week after demands from Torchlight's lawyers.
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