Dev Accused of Copying Splitgate Says He'd Never Heard of It

_sholtodouglas · x · 2026-11-10

Developer @sholtodouglas responded to the accusations, saying he had never heard of Splitgate before building his split-portal mechanic—he simply wanted to test physics and create a fun mechanism to speed up gameplay. The critic joked he'd add a rule to Claude Code to stop it copying games.

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