Golden Mine Pickaxe 2: Mummy Tombs

Golden Mine Pickaxe 2 is another GameMaker Studio asset flip from Russian copy+paste repeat offenders, Neki4 Electronics. All these guys do is rip off game templates and projects for Yoyogames/GameMaker Studio, change the name and a few cosmetic details, and try to scam people into paying for someone else's work on Steam. They have run asset flip scams dozens of times, and this is no exception (just look at their other games on Steam). It's nothing but a cash grab. It's a direct copy + paste of "Golden Mine Pickaxe". Same game. Makes sense, why run one asset flip cash grab scam when you can run two at twice the price? This time they've ripped off a basic template for a 2D retro "miner" game where you click on blocks mindlessly to collect stuff. It's garbage. GameMaker Studio itself is a terrible game construction kit, and this asset flip shows just how bad things can get when templates/tutorials/demos from that construction kit get dumped on Steam as complete games. Asset flips and other "Fake games" (as Valve calls them) are harmful to the industry, because they pollute the marketplace and reduce the visibility and exposure needed by genuine indie developers. In line with…

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