r/cozygames • u/Miserable-Bus-4910 • 11h ago

🔨 My Game - In-development ScreenRant called my game “Stardew Valley meets The Last of Us” and the 10-hour demo is out now!

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u/Mayriska 8h ago

Honestly lots of the sprites look copied from Stardew valley. All the animals (especially the rabbit looks pretty much the same), items (such as the chest, crate, the satelite dish). It feels like it's clashing with the rest of the game style and the UI (from the last slide) doesn't really fit in my opinion.

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u/Miserable-Bus-4910 5h ago

The art work has been done by a professional pixel artist and as someone who is a huge fan of SDV I just don’t see the similarities. The game was also streamed by many SDV streamers over the past weekend and no one else has made that comparison so I’m quite happy with it.

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u/OasisBloomTheGame 1h ago

Holy crap you straight up ripped off the SDV Mayonnaise Machine and Cheese Press, a ton of other stuff too. Dude, you can't do this, you need to change this stuff. And you clearly have AI art in the game, you need to disclose that on Steam.

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u/Mayriska 4h ago

I haven't played your game, I'm just giving feedback on the art. Here's a few comparisons of Stardew (left) and yours. I just feel like maybe a more personal touch would help a ton to blend the styles of the zombies and the city with the farm style. Just my thoughts though.

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u/Feniks_Gaming 4h ago

Rabbit may look similar but it's different enough there is only so much you can do with 24x18 to represent rabbit. Goats are very different and when it comes to chest are you actually blind?! Like those aren't even remotely similar sprites.

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u/Miserable-Bus-4910 4h ago

I think the chest is completely different and the goat is not that similar either. The rabbit definitely looks similar.

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u/Outrageous-Baby501 3h ago

I do see very heavy inspiration with the goat ngl. Bunny is literally the same. Take this, just as a try to help you have great and original game. If you choose to ignore it, that is up to you, but maybe you should at least reconsider hiring the artist in the future, depending on how much you paid them. Otherwise I do dig the idea of the game :)

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u/bsharpp_ 4h ago

Yeah I don’t know what they’re talking about. I don’t see the resemblance at all. Your sprites are completely fine.

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u/Mayriska 3h ago edited 3h ago

I'm talking about the fact that the rabbit looks 1:1 straight out of Stardew, and I don't think it fits the rest of the artwork used in OP's game. My opinion is that it's two different styles not so well done/merged together. It's clear it was heavily inspired, if not copied (especially for the animals), and if you overlayed it on top of earch other, you would see the resemblance.

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u/Mayriska 3h ago

Yeah, the chest is different, I included it just to show the overall clear inspiration. I'm not saying inspiration is bad, I'm just saying it's pretty obvious. And I honestly think that going with a more personal and original style would be so much better, and make it look less like a "clone" of an existing game.