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It's not just the tree - it's the whole scene. (Complete with random pumpkins that you wouldn't ever include unless you were deliberately copying Minecraft.) As I've said, I don't know if that's illegal but it's certainly derivative enough that I have no sympathy for it.
Minecraft copyright doesn’t cover the entire genre of block-based sandbox pixel art games. Minecraft isn’t even the first in that genre, even if it’s the most popular by a wide margin.
Unless Microsoft can prove that one of the textures started by copying a Minecraft texture, or that substantial bits of code are copied from Minecraft, there is no claim.
Indeed
And theres only so many ways to make a low pixel square look when you wanna make it look like a birch tree
Hytales birch trees are just more gray, and dont have white/black contrast
Same leaf color though
Curious what your thoughts are on Vintage Story, Hytale, Castleminer Z, etc...
There is nothing literally taken from minecraft. All the textures are original, and not even that similar to minecraft. I've talked with people like you before who just has no fucking clue about something that is so obvious to just about everyone else when it comes to stuff like this. It's very clearly NOT minecraft, nothing in anything shown in the images or anywhere else from the game gives any hint at stolen models, textures etc. There are tons of block games like this and many that look way more similar but those have never gotten a DMCA.
It looks like Minecraft bro turn off your reality distortion field
Did you even look into it or did you just do what the AI generating the DMCA did and looked at a singular image and decided it looks like Minecraft?
It does look like minecraft with a texture pack and shaders. Though, the trees look skinnier than normal.
Hytale looks like Minecraft with a texture pack and shaders. Every Minecraft inspired block based game looks like Minecraft with a texture pack and shader.
Oh and MS just withdrew their copyright claim because it was bullshit from the start.
I'm all for new takes on the block game (been looking forward to Hytale and will definitely give it a go sometime in the near future) but after watching the trailer...
It would be hard for me to tell this isn't Minecraft if I didn't watch or look into the game on a semi regular basis. It looks incredible derivative.
I'm not saying it's necessarily in need of the copyright strike I don't know the rules, but I'm not surprised it got one.
So. Immediate feelings of outrage followed by a mental shrug post trailer viewing.
The style is similar to Minecraft, the rest just happens in nature. I took a walk in my woods last fall and saw oak and birch and even... pumpkins
Minecraft has red leaves?