Hey everyone! I'm now going to be handing out invites to the Lovestruck Remix Discord server again. The current invite link below will be available only for 30 days and it may be removed or changed at any time
Before you join, I just want to warn people that anyone that mentions the Lovestruck Remix project outside of Discord or shares any Itch.io links or passwords from our projects, will be permanently banned from the server. This rule will be enforced super strictly going forward
This rule currently affects all of our remakes but I will be making exceptions to certain projects based on certain circumstances
Thank you for your patience and support!
Welcome to the Lovestruck Remix community server! This is an massive project aiming to restore (almost) every series from the Lovestruck app
Hey everyone! I'm now going to be handing out invites to the Lovestruck Remix Discord server again. The current invite link below will be available only for 30 days and it may be removed or changed at any time
Before you join, I just want to warn people that anyone that mentions the Lovestruck Remix project outside of Discord or shares any Itch.io links or passwords from our projects, will be permanently banned from the server. This rule will be enforced super strictly going forward
This rule currently affects all of our remakes but I will be making exceptions to certain projects based on certain circumstances
Thank you for your patience and support!
Welcome to the Lovestruck Remix community server! This is an massive project aiming to restore (almost) every series from the Lovestruck app
Some of you may have already heard of Choices' recent takeover by a rather questionable company that produces AI-generated TV shows, following over a year of using AI-generated content in all of its recent stories.
Unfortunately, it's quite apparent that Choices is following the footsteps of Lovestruck in its final days, where bad content is resulting in consumer boycott and a dwindling fanbase, which means that its shutdown is also now highly possible. Some people over at r/Choices and r/ChoicesPreservation have expressed an interest to archive the game, just like our community did almost half a decade ago.
They have no solid team or blue plan in the works yet, but some of our experienced members from LS Salvation Squad are already over there helping them get on track, using their prior experience with archiving Lovestruck.
If you are also a fan of Choices, and have interest, time and energy to help out, please consider joining them on discord.
A couple days ago, I made a post addressing Pixelberry/Series Entertainment's "It Lives Within." At the time, I wasn't aware of the story, I only knew that the name was the same. Since then, I saw many people accusing it of plagiarizing our game. I decided to look into it more, and after having watched all the episodes on YouTube, the claims of plagiarism unfortunately seem to be valid. As such, I'd like to further address this situation, and provide a list of stolen ideas and art with screenshot proofs and explanations.
A few years ago, I had a video call with one of the original writers for the It Lives Series. He no longer works for Pixelberry, and did not work with them at the time of the video call. Though I knew nothing about their original plans for the game before starting this project (including that they also intended to name the game "It Lives Within"), he told me their plans on that call. It was going to be a survivor-type cave crawl story with giant bug-inspired and creepy crawler monster enemies, where you play as a new character who is attacked by these creatures while camping and separated from their friends. From my understanding, Connor and his crew would be sort of like Sam and Dean from SPN, acting as these experienced "hunters" who help protect them.
That is not what the story of what Choices "It Lives Within" was. At all.
This means that the AI """writers""" at Series Entertainment/PB were not creating this story based on the original writers’ plans. They made their story idea later - after ILW was completed in its entirety. Therefore, it's reasonable to follow that unlike the title, these similarities are not coincidence. Though even then, the title It Lives Within had to do with the cave setting and going literally into the earth, while the AI version has nothing to do with caves. So the reasoning for the title is not the same as the reasoning for their original title.
With all this in mind, let’s go over the similarities between our game and the Choices It Lives Within AI show. I am going to be putting it beneath a read more, in case there are people who are interested in playing ILW and don’t want to get it spoiled.
Major things they stole:
Their villain, Silas, is Matthias. Literally, that's it. He's Matthias.
Silas is an immortal man who's been alive for almost 200 years and was a member of the Westchester cult, where he knew Cora. Matthias is an immortal man who's been alive 200+ years and was a member of the Westchester cult, where he knew Cora. Silas wants to sacrifice redfield Noah due to his connection to the Power as part of a complicated ritual he's put together in order to... I'm not quite sure what, exactly, as the story was a bit hard to follow. Matthias wants to sacrifice Rowan, due to their connection to the Power, as part of a complicated ritual he's put together in order to gain more power and freedom and heal the corrupted Power. Silas thinks he’s all manipulative and the main crew states that "He’s getting us to do his work for him!” Matthias thinks he's all manipulative, and gloats about being a "puppet master" and getting people to do his work for him.
And then there's his appearance. That's literally the same hairstyle - even has the part on the same side and the same curly swoops. He's the same age. Same race. Literally, just like Connor in their story is a recognizable AI-version of his in-game sprite, that's what Silas looks like to Matthias. All he's missing is the beard.
The gang's base of operations is Cora’s cabin
This one is interesting. It's such a tiny detail, and I'd grown so used to the cabin being their safe place that when Connor was like "We need to get back to the cabin" it literally took me a moment to realize - wait. They had nothing to do with that cabin in the original series. Using that as a home base was literally our idea, an It Lives Within original.
The main enemies are mind controlled townspeople working for Silas
Instead of following the precedent of the previous games and having the enemies be Power-twisted animal monsters, they decided to make their enemies humans that are mind-controlled into zombie-like beings with that attack the gang in hordes. This is a rip-off of It Lives Within's horrors, which are power-corrupted townsfolk that Matthias takes advantage of to oppose the main crew. And on top of that, they copied the carnival scene where Harper drives through a horde of horrors, including a scene where Devon drives through a horde of mind-controlled/zombified townsfolk.
Noah and Devon's relationship
Their relationship in this '"TV show" has suspicious similarities to their friendship/romance routes in ILW. They made Devon be redfield Noah's anchor to reality, and even had Devon use memories to help ground Noah, which we showed in the cabin scene where Devon and Noah play baseball together. And I know there were Noah x Devon shippers outside of me before ILW released, but it was never PB's plan to canonize them. So the fact that they are seemingly changing course to canonize them after they grew so popular in the fan version feels a bit too coincidental.
Scraping fan art for their AI animation frames
But what's even more egregious is that they have even stooped to scraping from fan artists, who have nowhere near the same following or exposure as our project does. Seriously, what are the odds that the MC they choose to use matches this artist's MC's race, gender, hair, and outfit exactly, that they used Noah's old outfit, that they are literally positioned on the same sides of the image? It's blatant plagiarism, and it's despicable. @errajay I'm so sorry they did this.
These are the biggest similarities, but considering that it was only like 15 minutes of content, that means that a high percentage of the story was stolen. Sure, the exact details of "Silas's" plan are different (he's like a horcrux for the "entity" aka power and he was split into 43 parts and Noah's one of his parts and he needs to kill him to get it back and be free or something) it's the same concept: immortal man who's trapped making a complicated ritual requiring sacrifice while manipulating people to get everything into place.
If you want to see for yourselves, please find it on YouTube. Do not support them with clicks or traffic on their app. Thank you! Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering, no AI was used in the drafting of this post 💖
Heya! I'm trying to download the Havenfall demo and the page is telling me I need a password. Could I get one here? Is there something I missed?
No, I'm only going to issue passwords through my Discord server. I've decided to lock everything down because of Voltage's re-releases, at least for now.
I'm really sorry about that but Voltage gave me no choice
Hi there! Are your Remixes still available somewhere? I managed to download last Love and Legends Remix update but I missed the others before they were removed/privated.
Not at the moment, no. I've decided to private and lock everything behind my Discord server until Voltage calms down with their re-releases. And no, I'm not going to issue invites to the server at least until some time after the Havenfall re-release comes out
I'm going to mention this here because I'm tired of answering DMs from people about this. If you got kicked from the Lovestruck Remix server because you forgot to fill in the form that you were warned dozens of times about and had plenty of time to fill in, you will not be getting back in for a while starting from now.
No ifs, no buts, you are not getting back in until I issue another invite publicly. You had your chance
Hi folks, we have released a mod post on r/Lovestruck; you may take this as a statement on our stance regarding re-releases by Voltage on Steam/Switch.
We are strongly advising folks to exercise prudence when it comes to sharing any fan-created recreations of Lovestruck in public due to Voltage Inc. continuing to release their own variations on their IP. Some remakers have already received Cease & Desist warnings.
Consequently, we're unfortunately also canceling our own Lovestruck remake, Love's Truck: The Last Stop.
For more information regarding the future of our archives and our YouTube recordings, please read the announcement on our discord server.
Hey everyone, I have an announcement regarding this blog.
Starting from today, the Lovestruck Remix blog will be going on hiatus and the project will continue in secret until further notice. The main reason for this is because Voltage is increasing the number of Lovestruck re-releases and there is rumors that they are sending out C&D notices to some creators. This means unfortunately that it's no longer safe to promote and update people about the Lovestruck Remix project via this blog. Discord invites to our server will also not be issued to new people on Tumblr at this time for the very same reasons. I hope you understand.
We may return in the near future but for now, thank you for your support around the project! Hopefully we will be back sooner than later!
Hey how are you doing lately? It's been a minute since ive been on this app. Last I remember you were feeling down so I thought Id check in. If thats amenable to you anyways
Hi, thanks for checking in! I'm doing much better now! I managed to get over everything surrounding my L&L remake and I'm now viewing everything in a positive light thanks to everyone's encouragement!
Hi! I just saw the post on the lovestruck remix page about the precautions against voltage and I'd like to know if you could consider sending me an invite to the discord server so i can still catch up on any updates :)
I've been a long time fan of lovestruck and i'd be happy to provide any information that's needed. I sent this as an ask because there was no option to dm you
Of course! To be fair I forgot to properly mention to everyone here that I was taking down the invite link to the server so I apologize for that.
The invite link is down below. You (and everyone else who sees this) has 24 hours to join before it expires. After you join you must complete a simple form in the announcements channel or you will be kicked from the server. Please keep that in mind!
Welcome to the Lovestruck Remix community server! This is an massive project aiming to restore (almost) every series from the Lovestruck app
Going to be sharing my statement about L&L Remix from my Discord server here. To summerise, my remake of L&L will be put on the shelf for a while to help with my mental health. All of my other remakes won't be affected
