Meteor Havok

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Fun and replayable. The Nostalgic sprites and cycling backgrounds keep this twist on a classic fun and fresh

"Meteor Havok" is an unabashed, lazy ripoff of Asteroids (Copyright Atari, 1979). Many lazy "amateur" developers don't pay attention to their obligations under copyright law, and often steal the ideas of actual, real game developers without credit, such as the "developer" here has done. The developer even openly admits the copyright infringement my mentioning Atari's trademark in their store blurb. This only exists on Steam because Atari haven't taken legal action yet, but as Tetris Holdings LLC vs Xio Interactive (New Jersey circuit) rulings prove... you can't just steal someone else's game. It's copyright infringment. Putting aside the unethical intellectual, creative and moral bankruptcy of stealing someone else's game concept, this is also breaking that unwritten law of stealing other people's game ideas... you should at least try to do better than the game you're ripping off. "Meteor Havok" is considerably worse than Asteroids. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A …

A fun little bite of nostalgia! Well done for the first offering from this studio.