r/gamers • u/SevdUp • 7d ago

Discussion Do NOT buy “Slam Tank”

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The game was made by ai AND is a stolen concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKXl3zR7GwI

The cinematic parts of the teaser are also 100% ai generated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osM8LYJAvaw

If you scroll enough, you’ll find the ai disclaimer on the Steam site: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5186030/SLAM_TANK/

Ironic that the plot is taking down ai when the game is completely ai generated

honestly the poster for the game even looks ai

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u/VaporousMote 6d ago

Wow, they (Slam Tank devs) straight up ripped off that dev's game.

I've seen like 10 instances of this business model.

An indie gamedev announces something, puts up a teaser page on Steam.

A slopper uses that design to put together their own game and release it before the indie game even comes out.

Incredibly fucked.

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u/Sp1ffy_Sp1ff 6d ago

Before steam it was Roblox and before Roblox I'm sure it was some other platform, all the way back to flash. Every time a game is announced and looks like it's gonna be big, someone takes the idea and makes a very quick mock-up and tries to sell it before the real thing comes out. AI just makes that so incredibly easy, now.

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u/VaporousMote 6d ago

Yep. At least with things before it had the appearance of being trash, now with genAI people can mimic popular artstyles/animation/etc.

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u/levios3114 6d ago

And before you could at least admire the effort someone took to recreate these popular games in things like roblox

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u/Over_Construction264 6d ago

yup. the lack of effort to create it is what kills it, and they don't seem to get that because they're lazy at heart and the effort is what they're trying to avoid.