Indie Dev's Polished Game Jam Concept Cloned and Shipped, Probably via AI Prompt
erikphoel · x · 2026-09-21
An indie dev shared their worst nightmare: they created a concept for the GMTK game jam, held off on the Steam page to obsessively polish the mechanics — and then it got cloned and shipped by someone else, probably with a simple AI prompt. The post shows the original build vs the clone. The quoting poster frames it as another example of 'culture as a Dark Forest': once an idea is public, AI makes copying it nearly free, which may change how creators share work at all.
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