(Been raining like crazy since the morning,so I was reminded of the time Amala and Ratan were running in the rain after the festival, and I thought I should capture that moment in a cg❤️)
Tag: @rc-catalog [book: kali: call of darkness • characters/ pairing: amala basu x ratan vaish • rating/warnings: G/none.]
I kind of miss the impulsivity that certain spaces used to allow. oh you want a hair cut today? hairdresser in the corner can fit you in before her 2 o’clock. tattoo of a cobra… sure leg or arm? even concerts, back when you could go to the box office thirty mins before any show. not saying these things don’t exist at all, but everything feels booked five months in advance and 10x more expensive
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 💖
Began reading KFOS and I am LOVING it!! Can’t wait to dig through all of your posts and edits, I’ve seen them on the TL but now I’ll truly understand the story!
OMGOMGOMGOMG YESS!! welcome to kfs!!! hope you enjoy <3
"Yes. I miss you smiling and making eyes at me." (S1, E6)
Ram Doobay is the younger son of the Doobay family, a powerful and influential family in the Dozen. The Doobays belong to the Brahmin caste, and oversee the temple to Kali in the city. While his brother is the head of the Kali Cult and the Maharaja of the Dozen, Ram is the family Brahmin and his visions are more accurate than others, so he is associated with the goddess.
💬 Interesting fact:
In the Doobay family, the firstborn son usually performs both roles: the "Knower," spiritually connected to Mahakali, and the "Heir," who takes on the burden of leading the family. If the goddess rejects the firstborn and instead spiritually binds herself to the second son, it is considered a bad omen. A head of the Doobay family who governs without sacred wisdom and doesn’t know the truth is doomed to destroy the family or become part of tragic events.
Everyone hoped that Raj’s connection would awaken over time, but when Ram was born, it became clear that the role of the "Knower" belonged to him. His gray eye, traditionally associated with those bound to the goddess, was proof of it. While Raj was always a serious and scientifically inclined boy who eagerly socialized with his peers, Ram seemed not quite of this world. He preferred silence over games, choosing to spend his time poring over books, studying the frescoes on the walls of their house and temple, or silently observing the landscapes around him. At times, he complained that he heard voices between his migraine attacks. His chosen conversation partner was often Rita-Shiva, his mentor—an unusual choice for a child. Among his peers, he only spoke freely with the sharp-tongued younger Basu.
When Ram was informed of the role destined for him—to lead temple services, act as a conduit between the Dozen and Mahakali, and offer his wisdom during gatherings—he seemed neither surprised nor frightened. The young and inexperienced boy simply nodded, as if he’d known his place all along. Meanwhile, Raj’s training as the future head of the family intensified, ensuring that the Doobays and the rest of the Dozen would survive the coming misfortune.
For the Dark Mother doesn’t reject the firstborn heir without reason.
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