EIRRIR IS AN INDIE GAME DEVELOPER THAT SHAMELESSLY TRACES AND STEALS ARTS FROM OTHER PEOPLE
@eirrir is an indie developer working on games like Operation: Future Domination (backed up by Sekai Project) and Wred & the Wolf.
The problem is that she is also a shameless art thief who is only sorry that she got caught. Please consider this evidence of her game Operation: Future Domination which she traced from Bad Apple Wars, a lesser-known Japanese otome game. The crisp-clear artwork is from BAW.
This evidence was compiled by me several months ago. Her response was to delete the game from itch.io ( a game that she was happily receiving donations on, up until she was caught ) and then she posted half-hearted apology, thinking that it is acceptable just to promise to change the sprites from now on. The following are direct quotes from her:
“I did trace the face shape of some of the characters and some minor facial/upper features.” As seen above, she clearly traced more than that.
“indeed, if no one had pointed out the tracing, I might have passed the character sprites off as completely my own. What started out as tracing only for character design ended up as a kind of plagiarism, because of my laziness and insecurities as a new game developer. “
This is unacceptable. Trying to publish a game with stolen assets is absolutely disgusting for an indie developer to try to do. Her regret lies not in what she has done, but only that she was caught and now has to make amends. This is clear because the apology was posted in a quiet little read more, rather than something she attempted to make attempts.
The next problem is that she is making a new free to play VN called Wred & the Wolf and she has once again, traced/referenced assets without credit and with the hope that she can pass it off as her own.
Eirrir is aware that she is referencing to an unacceptable degree. In a forum thread from Dec. 2017, she questioned whether or not she was referencing that person’s artwork too heavily and the comments said that she was. Unfortunately, she realized this was incriminating and has long since deleted the thread.
This is the screenshot she posted:
This is an artwork (by Rinniu, who has regrettably deleted their deviantart and tumblr):
It is CLEAR that she has once again stolen other people’s artwork for her games.
This is unacceptable behavior for an indie developer. As a huge fan of visual novels and of otome games, I have to make sure that people know that the content they’re consuming is made by someone who steals art. I will be posting this everywhere I can and, perhaps, even making a YouTube video if I feel as though this post hasn’t gained enough traction.
Please spread this. Don’t let her get away with this.
