{"id":105559,"date":"2019-12-14T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/gleamlight_publisher_responds_to_accusations_of_game_being_a_hollow_knight_ripoff"},"modified":"2019-12-14T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T06:30:00","slug":"gleamlight-publisher-responds-to-accusations-of-game-being-a-hollow-knight-ripoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/14\/gleamlight-publisher-responds-to-accusations-of-game-being-a-hollow-knight-ripoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Gleamlight Publisher Responds To Accusations Of Game Being A Hollow Knight &#8220;Ripoff&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a768ef9dce659\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a768ef9dce659\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a768ef9dce659\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jY1RtoxBNPU?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>One Switch announcement you might recall from Nintendo&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/round_up_all_the_games_from_the_nintendo_indie_world_showcase_-_december_2019\">Indie World<\/a>&#8216; showcase earlier this week is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/gleamlight\">Gleamlight<\/a><\/strong>, created by the developers of <strong><a class=\"external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.uk\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch\/Bloodstained-Ritual-of-the-Night-1563735.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576144876521000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEZ7vKrzxIqOd1aTyS6TGsTjlnxUw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.uk\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch\/Bloodstained-Ritual-of-the-Night-1563735.html\">Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately, this new game was compared to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/hollow_knight\">Hollow Knight<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 with comments across various social media platforms stating how similar the two titles looked, and some even going as far as calling Gleamlight a &#8220;<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/1204483421843722246\">ripoff<\/a>&#8221; of Team Cherry&#8217;s hit release.<\/p>\n<p>Polygon reached out to the game&#8217;s publisher D3 and asked if the developer DICO was &#8220;aware&#8221; of Hollow Knight. This was the response it received back from a representative:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;<em>Gleamlight<\/em>\u2019 is still in development and it\u2019s not final at this moment. The dev team is aware of \u2018<em>Hollow Knight<\/em>\u2019 but the game has nothing to do with that title<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DICO itself says the aesthetics, in particular, in Gleamlight are influenced by beautiful stained glass artistry.<\/p>\n<p>If this sounds familiar, back in October, the magical 2D platformer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/magical_2d_platformer_enchanted_portals_accused_of_being_a_cuphead_clone\">Enchanted Portals<\/a><\/strong> was <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/magical_2d_platformer_enchanted_portals_accused_of_being_a_cuphead_clone\">accused<\/a> of being a clone of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/cuphead\">Cuphead<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>What did you think of Gleamlight when it was shown at this week&#8217;s &#8216;Indie World&#8217; presentation? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jY1RtoxBNPU?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] One Switch announcement you might recall from Nintendo&#8217;s &#8216;Indie World&#8216; showcase earlier this week is Gleamlight, created by the developers of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Almost immediately, this new game was compared to Hollow Knight \u2013 with comments across various social media platforms stating how similar the two titles looked, and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}