"Metal Commando" comes from a free Unity template project called "Metal Shooter Slug" that was hosted on a site that no longer exists. That free template was in turn inspired by a NeoGeo game series called "Metal Slug" (Those games have ports on Steam). Those NeoGeo games had the three letter name of their developer scattered throughout the game, so the template project also included a 3 letter name on stuff as a homage to the style of the original. It is not only asset flipped in the name of 'Metal Commando' but also several variations of the names of all three things mentioned.
The reason the AI in the first game wouldn't follow you off the map is because they use a "Nav Mesh Volume" Which is basically a cube that you can place in your map that tells the AI what a walkable terrain is, usually stopping it from going off any cliffs so even if it stretched far enough, it's unlikely the AI would fall unless the Devs specifically told them to do that for whatever reason. I'm guessing they just never thought someone would walk around the buildings, so never added any collision to stop you.
Just so know know that tower defense game has a lot of similar assets to kingdom rush (like the grey wolf looking enemy and the plots where you buy towers)
i remember playing this tower defense game on one of these free flash online game sites a few years ago o-o i would guess someone just slapped a flash player on a launcher and sold it with the free flash game on it as their game on steam
That's why I would've assumed it's a fake website the "developers" put up to look more legit. They even stole the company logo, and the url looked sussy(an email-address on the site even pointed to a more real-looking one) I've seen stuff like this happen in scambaiting videos
Australia isn't the only country that banned those games.. India for example (has banned most of online pornography / anything pornographic due to fears of "Corrupting" people.). Even though those with the know-how easily circumvents this "firewall" with a vpn.
@ProudPogoPea you literally hate a group of people so much that You've made it your whole identity and put a hate symbol in your name. Your opinion isn't valid
2:02 not long ago, military tried to develop AI sentry. During trials it failed miserably against Marines who, among other methods, would sneak up to it in cardboard boxes, giggling and laughing like hyenas when doing so.
Also the reason people buy those furry games is 99% people gifting it to their friend as a joke to stream in discord for a good laugh for about half an hour or less
@@randomuser2578 idk man it’s the internet. Warthunder players have leaked classified documents, and some people’s humor can be dissolved to the point where play furry porn games is funny.
I'd like to point out that the commodore website/game/whatever company seems to have stolen the original Commodore International logo. That is to say, they stole the name and logo of the computer hardware company that made the Commodore PET, Vic20, Commodore 64, Amiga, etc. Commodore International went bankrupt 29 years ago, at least according to Wikipedia.
Could be that they bought the Commodore trademark. The trademark of Atari is being swapped around constantly since the original company went bankrupt, another company bought their name, renamed themselves to "Atari", that company also went out of business, sold the name to yet another company who subsequently rebranded themselves to "Atari" and I'm pretty sure this loop happened at least one more time.
@@randomcatname7792 At this point we can assume that every twin-tailed blue haired anime girl with pronouns is Hatsune Miku, like if something is teal; it's Hatsune Miku, if it's Minecraft, it's Hatsune Miku, if it's the entire fucking world !!!!!..... it's Hatsune Miku, because the world is hers
I'd like to propose a second idea for indiegames3000, what if indie games 3000 are simply a really budget porting studio who specialize in porting mobile games to PC? Because all of their games are clearly a mobile game format of one kind or another, and I can see why generic mobile game number 2002 might not necessarily have its developers care who has their name tacked onto it
Also on the note of the funny tile flipping video game, people usually buy it so they have access to the steam achievements and can do funny things with them, since steam lets you do profile customization and let you do funny things with achievements, you can """""proudly""""" display whatever fucking faces the achievements show or whatever
Another potential solution: Indie Games 3000 has some sort of grant or investment funding four Indie mobile games that have monetization features. Maybe they get paid back in part by taking a cut of microtransactions. Or maybe they don't. Either way they get some of their return by acquiring the right to publish on different platforms such as Steam. Some financial backing involves contracts with some really weird clauses and this just might be the result of a clause.
The Steam moderation point is interesting, as I've been developing a game with my dad and trying to get it on steam has been kind of a nightmare! The demo kept getting rejected because of various things we did wrong during submission. None of it was related to the actual game, though; all of it was related to its presence in the Steam store, and how much they wanted it to match their standards for the store page (which has some pretty confusing/ill-explained terms, IMO)
@@Sypaka oh, there's no NDA or anything! my dad is the tech guy, so he handles a lot of that stuff (i do art and writing), but i can share what i know. i don't think the game file itself was checked by steam, so the problems we've been running into have been stuff that deals with the quality of screenshots, the size of different promotional/store images, and being evocative of what the game is in its store page description, and matching that up with what the screenshots look like. basically, you have to put up a good front on the store page. as for the difficulties we've had with images, they have sort of an odd naming scheme, and not all of the descriptions/example images were clear or had working links when we were trying our latest application. i remember there were different types of "hero" and "capsule" images, and other stuff like that, that had sort of vague definitions, that we had to figure out together what they meant by looking at games that were already on the steam page. the whole thing isn't very hard, really, but for an indie game with two people working on it, who are both anxious about the process, it gets pretty intimidating to try to match up with what they want after a few rejections. i hope i was able to give you a bit of what you wanted to know!
Ok so the Commodore engineering site was in italian, and me being italian I read some stuff there, they are basically contractors you can pay to make stuff, videogames included. Also the police officers didnt follow you because those are AIs which need an invisible volume to work called Nav Mesh which is basically an empty cube they can move in, AI cant use pathfinding outside the nav mesh, and the dev simply didnt put the nav mesh all over the map. They didnt actually code them to not be able to fall into the void lol
A friend of mine has a tradition where some of his other friends give him incredibly bad and cheap 18+ games on steam as a joke, and he always 100%s them. I share libraries with him, so I am painfully aware that steam is absolutely filled with shovelware "puzzle" games that are just incredibly bad p*rn.
The furry and "Australia" games are just the tip of the iceberg of similarly simple and saucy dollar games on Steam. They're really nothing more than Not Safe For Work art packs packaged behind a very simple game, typically tile-based, that unlocks each art piece per level. The extremely low standard for what passes as a game on Steam allowed a lot of artist circles with access to basic game development tools to market their game/art pack much easily on Steam than on more obscure distribution platforms like Itch IO. There are also other quirks among these games. Sometimes a game comes with a long list of pointless achievements that unlock in huge numbers each time you beat a level, which I theorize is a way to farm Steam trading cards using bot accounts running these games, a proto-cryptomining op of sorts (however successful that is). Some games even appear Safe For Work but have Not Safe For Work patches provided in community hubs to unlock more naughty versions of default art, just so they could evade accusations of sleaze. Basically, you're paying for the art, not the game. But it's also hard not to see the flood of these "games" as slimy due to the rampant abuse of a loophole to sell something else. EDIT: Sorry for reposting. My reply keeps getting hidden by TH-cam for using no-no words. What a hellsite.
The furry one is either for A. A joke, gift it to your freind to curse their steam library or buy jt for yourself cuz it's funny. Alternatively B. Get an easy 100%ed game with lots of achievements. They always have a million achievements and they're all easy
C. Steam trading cards farming, usually these games have a lot of that too, trying to make a lot of money by enticing the card farmers and giving them a new place where to get a ton more super easily. D. Cheap shovelware made for the few dumb furries who actually buy these "games", basically the furry version of these kind of people who'd rather buy some shitty porn game and get off to it rather than go on PH or something.
@@unaincreibleroca3427 It's even mentioned in the video. The trading card thing is usually specifically for Steam Keys reselling, aka, poorer countries usually.
Thank you for this. You having pure intentions of wanting to help with the channel makes it so touching to all of us. I've never felt like we were just "content viewers" to you, you've always made it feel like these videos are your expression of love towards humanity
At 20 cents a sale, it would only take 500 sales to recoup the upload cost. Unfortunately, there are many more gullible and cheap saps out there than 500.
@@latemanparodius5133 effective profit after calculating taxes and valve's cut is ~30% of the original price After that you'd need to account for the work that was put into making it too
@@hassathunter2464 Point of the matter is: you wouldn't BELIEVE how many Dumb fkers exist in this world. even people who aren't really "Stupid" as just Ignorant. like for instance, my Dad. he was INCREDIBLY Intelligent.. he could literally take a Car apart down to the fking Bolt and put it back together, if he heard a car making a certain sound he could tell you exactly what was wrong with it. he did Electrical work, plumbing, wood work like Carpentry, Wood Carving, Burning, he could Sow, Stitch, he could do literally just about anything but Sculpt, and i think he didn't do that cause that is literally MY main goal in life, so he didn't want to be better at it than me and crush my spirit. but when it came to Technology like using a Computer, he had no fking idea how it worked. not so much as a clue. but i was trying to reach him at the end of his life, and he enjoyed the time we spent together and me being able to teach him something for once.. it was a weird feeling honestly. but he would fall for Porn pop-ups and shit constantly, he just didn't grasp that there was evil people on the internet who wanted to harvest your data and put spyware/malware on your computer. but i had given him a windows xp computer "windows xp was new at the time, i didn't screw him over giving him Xp on purpose lol" and every week we had to reformat that computer, cause it had ALL SORTS of Malware on it. we had Adblock, but for some reason Google Chrome/Firefox wasn't as strong as it is now, so it just got Malware like nobodies business. he did enjoy being online though, he LOVED Shock sites, he saw stuff he never believed he'd ever see, like "Goatse" or "Tubgirl" or the "Blue Waffle" or "Pink Sock" i could go on lol... but stuff like that was a totally new concept to him so being 71, he had never actually saw anything deranged like that. i got to have that fun with him for like.. two or three years until he died of lung cancer.. but yeah, i imagine games like these Prey on little kids without a lot of money, or people who just don't know any better. shit, even one of my friends will randomly download just anything from the App store and play it on his phone.. Sketchy AF shit you'd never touch with a ten foot pole.. he'll download cause it "Looks cool" he'll even buy Micro Transaction shit. ive told him a 100 times dude, that's scam shit, don't give them your Debit Card! but he'll do it anyway. same with my Brother (from another mother)'s Birth Mom.. she'll give her Debit card to any ol damn site online. and then bitch when random charges pop up out of nowhere! and its happened MULTIPLE TIMES! though, i would say she IS stupid however. same with my friend and his weird phone downloads. both of them are pretty dumb.
There is actually a way to permanently remove games from the library, if you don't want it "tainted". From what I remember, you can just use the return functionality even if you missed the return window. You just won't get any money back.
@@wyattallumbaugh746 Not to worry, I just cheaped out and got a cheap east-europe-only steam code. But by this time, those codes had already become geolocked, so I would've needed a VPN to play it. And then this game was put on sale on regular Steam, so to purchase it legitimately I had to remove it first.
I don't think an actual furry has ever actually bought one of those NSFW furry puzzle games. The only reason I can see someone buying it is out of pure morbid curiosity. (Also hi Reggie 👋)
For an actually good implementation of the core idea between Dual Cars, see the game Duet. Actually can be very intense, has a great soundscape, and is generally just a good game.
My guess as to why the police don't follow you to the edge is they just used a generated navmesh, but for some reason limited it to a small area rather than the whole area.
Well that game is so bad, the only thing coming from it would be a meme animation, how the MC even steals the clothes of those cops, then falling through the floor lmao.
In other words, instead of building an invisible wall to keep just the cop in (doing extra coding), the game was built with a searchable area that wasn't big enough to cover the map (doing less coding)? That's great.
Started from talking about how dumb a game is to a full blown conspiracy where a game company is just stealing games and publishing them as their own. I love it.
@@blablagamerbr what does that emoji mean are you saying that all Furry must be porn or what because by that logic all Asian cartoons must be porn because you saw hentai once
About the game where Regi was used as censor, I can imagine this game's dev and dev's friend conversation about it "Oh hey man! What are you doing today?" "I'm developing a game" "Nice! About what this game will be?" "... Can we change the topic?"
Just btw, that is NOT what an Asset flip is. An Asset Flip is a game made by buying/downloading premade assets from the Unity/UE asset store, and just throw them down into the "game", compile and release. The Unity and UE asset stores sell anything from UI elements, to 3d models, animations and even premade code. So people just get those and drag them in the editor.
14:46 I think Dual Cars was “strongly inspired“ by another mobile game called Duet Game, which used the concept in a much better way and introduced a lot more mechanics.
So, a asset flip is when you literally buy assets to use on Unreal and build a game from pretty much exclusively those assets to resale. What probably happened was they made the first game as an asset flip, then resold it after changing a couple things to get past Steams very limited filters.
Fun fact: the tower defense game is a ripoff of a tower defense game on mobile with the same assets and same gameplay but the mobile (kingdom rush) one isn't shit, and as bonus I am pretty sure the farm day one is a stolen Facebook game which I do not remember the name of
12:37 sure, i can do that! the type of person you've described beforehand, to my knowledge, is few and far between. usually, there's three parties, being the gag gift people, the collectors, and the achievement hunters. though i am a part of that last group, usually this sort of game will have a key (very often it's 'H') that allows you to skip the level and collect the achievement, whittling a longer game down to just 5 minutes, like iR Studio's entire catalog. this game does not. most game collectors will often ignore games in which the profile features are limited, which leaves the gag gift people. that is, for the most part! not everyone in the latter two groups cares--i don't. there's a game called star sweet that takes 30 to 40 HOURS to complete of the same match 3 level over and over and over but people will still do it for the achievements. i am not quite that insane, but i can certainly dedicate an hour and a half of my time to a game like this. "why" is a question i cannot answer for you, at this point. it's because i own it, but i couldn't tell you what got me in the hobby in the first place. unrelated, far likelier that indiegames3000 takes stuff of the unity asset store and plops them on steam. this would implicate those commodore guys too
Also, I saw similar "stolen mobile games" on the Windows store. Generic company name, games I recognized from Android. They'd had the mechanics crudely ripped, leaving a whole bunch of bugs and content that didn't do anything - especially around microtransactions - and had ads slapped in the sidebars.
What I find weird is that those games on the Windows Store are insanely priced... At least in Hungary, if the Windows Store does regional pricing. Might be part of some kind of money laundering.
Fun fact, most (ahem 👀) type games are for people who have a crippling addiction to corn, I purchased them to make my friends worry, there are even ones with Hitler and stalen
13:00 I'm 100% certain that this game is a ripoff of a 12 year old indie tower defense game called Kingdom Rush, the biggest difference being that kingdom rush was actually kinda cool from what little I remember as a kid. The artstyle, enemy designs and tower types all have a heavy resemblance. I assume Htwo didn't know about Kingdom Rush since it wasn't mentioned and he actually praised this game (in comparison to everything else).
3:00 Game dev here, the police probably have a premade mesh for where they can go that just doesn't extend as far as the collision for the map. The player isn't bound by a navmesh and so can go anywhere that has ground.
14:12 actually I'm pretty sure I recognize some of these assets, the background (I think), some enemies and the "empty tower" sprites are straight ripped from kingdom rush.
24:30 this just means that their ssh sertificate is invalid. The warning is about that whatever data you exchange with their website might be stolen by a middleman.
Just because a certificate expired, doesn't automatically mean, there is a middleman. I would be more worried, if the CN in the cert doesn't match the domain name, was self-signed OR was signed by an expired, known bad CA used for SSL breach/middle man shenanigans. However, it says a lot about a company, if they can't afford a valid SSL cert for $2-$5 a month.
The conspiracy reminds me of the dozens of generic 'jrpgs' made by a particular group, all using the builtin assets of rpgmaker except for the few hand-drawn main characters. Don't remember the company name though, but they're not hard to find since they put out a new game nearly every other month; so they might be copy & pasting, but at least they aren't stealing others' work lol.
Delving deeper into the stealing of Metal Commando, though on the original team's side this time. At around 8:23 in the video you show us a loading tips screen, which shows the Skill Tree. That very first skill there, the one with the brass knuckles that say "Hurt" is the icon for a Skill from Borderlands 2 called Fistful of Hurt! Some of the skill icons look original, and I don't know how many are stolen from Borderlands, but the smoking gun one is exactly like the one for Keep it Piping Hot, another skill on the SAME character, and the Rabbit icon one looks suspiciously like one of Lilith's skills from BL1! Updating this like two seconds after the original comment, but I just noticed that the one in the top middle, the two pistols, is YET ANOTHER Salvador skill from BL2, called Divergent Likeness. The devs must love Salvador, as they sure do love stealing his Skill Tree icons.
i agree, honestly i think those "match the colors reveal the picture" are secretly actually bitmining scams or just flat out scams. If they were part of a narrative in a visual novel it would make sense and most importantly i'm sure it would all be part of the experience. These "trash" games are completely sus.
An "Asset flip" isn't changing the assets of another game to resell it. It's taking assets from a marketplace and slapping together a barebones game and selling it. Whether they paid for the assets or not. There aren't just visual assets. There are some gameplay/code assets you can purchase most of the time. And they usually contain some examples to demonstrate what you can do with the assets. These are usually just selling the examples. And it's not just steam either, even the Switch had some game that was a unity 'pinball example game', meant to teach people how to use the engine, just straight up ripped and sold on the eshop.
11:30 its not only bad enough that they ask money for that kind of game, the pictures are probably just stolen from some random poor guy on the internet
so the thing about these pay-for games is, essentially, exclusivity. it's like paying for a private show that you also have to earn by playing a minigame (thus making it more exclusive, i guess?) and that somehow tricks your brain into desiring it more than any given smut you can find just laying around. edit: H* Saves Australia is based on the country trying (and failing, horrendously) to ban H*. yes, seriously.
Steam does give you the option to remove games from your library, even if you can't get a refund. Granted, you lose out on money but if you don't want the game anymore that's one way to do it.
I'm pretty sure that "Commodore Engineering" doesn't have the rights to use the Commodore trademark / Logo and has simply skirted under the radar due to their lack of brand recognition and the current inactivity of the Commodore brand. That's like making a software company and calling it "Atari Creations" and using the Atari logo.
As a furry, yeah it's kinda wierd that there's so many no effort furry porn games. There's a few ideas I have though. As some people have pointed out already, some people buy them as jokes or just use them to farm achievements. The other reason might be people trying to bank off of "furry bait". Basically trying to get people to buy just becuase there are anthro charatcers in it. There's a lot of furry bait stuff that just... not worth it whatsoever. And as you said, if you really wanted it you can just look it up. Side note, Reginald is adorable!
The amount of furry games that are incredibly weird on steam is surprising. The funniest of which is probably “Furry Hitler” which is exactly what it sounds like.
I love how steam allows furry "corn" to be published, but als bans my innocent Gmod dupe. Like im already waiting for over a year for a simple house to be accepted. I have some questions to you Gabe.
I love how, while talking about a furry nsfw game, you called your cat Reggie In the furry fandom, there is a very popular fursona called Reggie, and it has tens and tens of lewd images everywhere Also the tower defense thing is a kingdom rush copy
The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure the Park The Car game IS a "throwaway mobile game ripoff" because I swear I played it before on my phone a year ago or so, the exact same levels and premise, by VOODOO lol
As a furry, I can support the theory at 11:00 that "furries like animals." As a sample size of just one person, I don't think that is statistically significant evidence, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe other furries will concur and we can actually get to the bottom of this.
I agree. I like animals, especially dogs. I always want to pet them, even though I'm kind of allergic and have to wash my hands right after. Cats and foxes are really cute too
As long as you don't play them for 2 hours or more, you can get a refund and remove them from your library. So you don't have to live in shame forever.
Your voice reminds me so much of Barny64, so much so that I thought this was their second channel haha Great video and nice work on digging up the beginnings of a Steam conspiracy. Who only knows where it will lead...
As a guy that greatly enjoys h-games, i found that working for it makes it better for some reason, plus theres the build up and emotional investment, which increases the enjoyment from it.
You can remove games from your steam library permanently. You won't get any money back, but it at least it won't tell your friends it's in your library.
Okay, for the farm game, the actual game is called LITTLE FARMER, developed by Hussein Mahmed
Get this guy to the top of the comments. He has the sauce.
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Where'd you get the info from, my guy? Got some contacts in the underbelly of the Internet?
"Metal Commando" comes from a free Unity template project called "Metal Shooter Slug" that was hosted on a site that no longer exists.
That free template was in turn inspired by a NeoGeo game series called "Metal Slug" (Those games have ports on Steam). Those NeoGeo games had the three letter name of their developer scattered throughout the game, so the template project also included a 3 letter name on stuff as a homage to the style of the original.
It is not only asset flipped in the name of 'Metal Commando' but also several variations of the names of all three things mentioned.
It was obvious to me/us from the start
the 'metal slug' in this game is obvious to anyone who's played those games, which I have.
yes but from what I see it was release free only for learning and couldn't be distributed without permission.
Metal Slug 3 is forever my favorite Metal Slug game.
I knew the boss looked familiar
Love how he goes from a conspiracy theory that's really engaging, to nsfw furry stuff
Lmao
With Reginald boi
Htwo is probably on a FBI watchlist after uploading this video
I, too, also love nsfw furry stuff as well
@@randomcatname7792 🤨
I had no idea that the niche community of games under 50 cents was being absolutely DOMINATED by this mysterious Indie Games 3000
The reason the AI in the first game wouldn't follow you off the map is because they use a "Nav Mesh Volume" Which is basically a cube that you can place in your map that tells the AI what a walkable terrain is, usually stopping it from going off any cliffs so even if it stretched far enough, it's unlikely the AI would fall unless the Devs specifically told them to do that for whatever reason. I'm guessing they just never thought someone would walk around the buildings, so never added any collision to stop you.
Feel like the only reason people buy furry porn games on steam is to troll their friends by tainting their steam library with a forbidden gift
its all fun and games until said friend starts racking up hundreds of hours of gameplay on said games,lol
*Oh no*
@@foodaah *sideeyes my friend with over 100 hours in each of the very sussy games we buy him each year*
This is what I do lol
You can decline gifts
Just so know know that tower defense game has a lot of similar assets to kingdom rush (like the grey wolf looking enemy and the plots where you buy towers)
The maps are the same also from what i saw
It even has abilitys and archer and FULLY LOADED
*defense Tower simulator* is the best game name I’ve ever heard
i remember playing this tower defense game on one of these free flash online game sites a few years ago o-o i would guess someone just slapped a flash player on a launcher and sold it with the free flash game on it as their game on steam
Tower types and build slot are complete rips from Kingdom rush
HTwo casually starting a conspiracy in a completely normal video
(he's never done that before)
Anyone is going to contact that Italian engineering company?
(this video is not normal)
@@XxguaxinimxX. lamo
@@thatkiddanny laughing ass my off
before i saw the actual title i thought this said "Hitler Saves Australia" 24:52
Me too
same here
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"A company called commodore" damn I can feel my ancient bones crumbling to dust
But its not THE commodore. I've heard of the old company, but this just isn't them at all
That's why I would've assumed it's a fake website the "developers" put up to look more legit.
They even stole the company logo, and the url looked sussy(an email-address on the site even pointed to a more real-looking one)
I've seen stuff like this happen in scambaiting videos
The joke with the last game is that Australian government is incredibly prudish, and recently banned H games.
Australia isn't the only country that banned those games.. India for example (has banned most of online pornography / anything pornographic due to fears of "Corrupting" people.). Even though those with the know-how easily circumvents this "firewall" with a vpn.
another overstep by a government
kinda based ngl
@@BrainiumBasher9001 As an Australian, I can confirm, it was not based 💀💀💀
@ProudPogoPea you literally hate a group of people so much that You've made it your whole identity and put a hate symbol in your name. Your opinion isn't valid
2:02 not long ago, military tried to develop AI sentry. During trials it failed miserably against Marines who, among other methods, would sneak up to it in cardboard boxes, giggling and laughing like hyenas when doing so.
I read that too, it was funny as hell.
hweres the article
Bro no fair it was solid snake 😭💀
Also the reason people buy those furry games is 99% people gifting it to their friend as a joke to stream in discord for a good laugh for about half an hour or less
how is that a joke thats not funny
@@randomuser2578 idk man it’s the internet. Warthunder players have leaked classified documents, and some people’s humor can be dissolved to the point where play furry porn games is funny.
Yeah my friend/classmate did that to me and it was funny for a little bit but after that we forgot about it.
@@randomuser2578 Its pretty funny
Degenerate porn games are the best birthday presents to give, because the recipient is guaranteed to reject it lol.
"no guys i promise i bought furry sex for a youtube video i promise the video is coming out soon you just have to trust me"
"It's a business expense, tax collectors, I can prove it!"
I'd like to point out that the commodore website/game/whatever company seems to have stolen the original Commodore International logo. That is to say, they stole the name and logo of the computer hardware company that made the Commodore PET, Vic20, Commodore 64, Amiga, etc. Commodore International went bankrupt 29 years ago, at least according to Wikipedia.
Could be that they bought the Commodore trademark. The trademark of Atari is being swapped around constantly since the original company went bankrupt, another company bought their name, renamed themselves to "Atari", that company also went out of business, sold the name to yet another company who subsequently rebranded themselves to "Atari" and I'm pretty sure this loop happened at least one more time.
I can't believe you didn't mention Hatsune Miku's presence in Farm Day 2021 as a customer
I mean, it's not really her, just has the hair
@@randomcatname7792 At this point we can assume that every twin-tailed blue haired anime girl with pronouns is Hatsune Miku, like if something is teal; it's Hatsune Miku, if it's Minecraft, it's Hatsune Miku, if it's the entire fucking world !!!!!..... it's Hatsune Miku, because the world is hers
@@FunnyParadox What if it's the Hatsune Miku PS Vita
@@therealmistermemer Then it's superior Miku 😌
@@FunnyParadox I fucking lost it at "the world is hers" like full on lmfaoooo
I'd like to propose a second idea for indiegames3000, what if indie games 3000 are simply a really budget porting studio who specialize in porting mobile games to PC? Because all of their games are clearly a mobile game format of one kind or another, and I can see why generic mobile game number 2002 might not necessarily have its developers care who has their name tacked onto it
Also on the note of the funny tile flipping video game, people usually buy it so they have access to the steam achievements and can do funny things with them, since steam lets you do profile customization and let you do funny things with achievements, you can """""proudly""""" display whatever fucking faces the achievements show or whatever
that would make sence but two things 1 they dent credit devs 2 the in app purchases dont work
I think it's just one person trying to make some extra cash. Stealing low budget games or creating asset flips is a fairly innocuous hustle
Another potential solution: Indie Games 3000 has some sort of grant or investment funding four Indie mobile games that have monetization features. Maybe they get paid back in part by taking a cut of microtransactions. Or maybe they don't. Either way they get some of their return by acquiring the right to publish on different platforms such as Steam. Some financial backing involves contracts with some really weird clauses and this just might be the result of a clause.
Or HTwo is indiegames3000 and used this video to get people to look at the account and maybe get some people to buy it and get extra money
The Steam moderation point is interesting, as I've been developing a game with my dad and trying to get it on steam has been kind of a nightmare! The demo kept getting rejected because of various things we did wrong during submission. None of it was related to the actual game, though; all of it was related to its presence in the Steam store, and how much they wanted it to match their standards for the store page (which has some pretty confusing/ill-explained terms, IMO)
What are their standards exactly? Can you tell about it or is it some confidential NDA stuff?
@@Sypaka oh, there's no NDA or anything! my dad is the tech guy, so he handles a lot of that stuff (i do art and writing), but i can share what i know. i don't think the game file itself was checked by steam, so the problems we've been running into have been stuff that deals with the quality of screenshots, the size of different promotional/store images, and being evocative of what the game is in its store page description, and matching that up with what the screenshots look like. basically, you have to put up a good front on the store page. as for the difficulties we've had with images, they have sort of an odd naming scheme, and not all of the descriptions/example images were clear or had working links when we were trying our latest application. i remember there were different types of "hero" and "capsule" images, and other stuff like that, that had sort of vague definitions, that we had to figure out together what they meant by looking at games that were already on the steam page. the whole thing isn't very hard, really, but for an indie game with two people working on it, who are both anxious about the process, it gets pretty intimidating to try to match up with what they want after a few rejections. i hope i was able to give you a bit of what you wanted to know!
@@jellyskink pleaseee update us once it gets approved? I'm subbing to you so I won't forget you!
Wish you luck
@BudCat64XD thank you!!
Ok so the Commodore engineering site was in italian, and me being italian I read some stuff there, they are basically contractors you can pay to make stuff, videogames included.
Also the police officers didnt follow you because those are AIs which need an invisible volume to work called Nav Mesh which is basically an empty cube they can move in, AI cant use pathfinding outside the nav mesh, and the dev simply didnt put the nav mesh all over the map. They didnt actually code them to not be able to fall into the void lol
2 reasons this video is fire
1. It goes from a normal bad steam game review to some actual story
2. Meet the spy music
I fucking love Regi with all my heart. Please give us more Regi content
WE NEED MORE REGI
Yea I agree
WE ABSOLUTELY NEED MORE REGI
R E G I
the wiggly woogly
A friend of mine has a tradition where some of his other friends give him incredibly bad and cheap 18+ games on steam as a joke, and he always 100%s them. I share libraries with him, so I am painfully aware that steam is absolutely filled with shovelware "puzzle" games that are just incredibly bad p*rn.
The furry and "Australia" games are just the tip of the iceberg of similarly simple and saucy dollar games on Steam. They're really nothing more than Not Safe For Work art packs packaged behind a very simple game, typically tile-based, that unlocks each art piece per level. The extremely low standard for what passes as a game on Steam allowed a lot of artist circles with access to basic game development tools to market their game/art pack much easily on Steam than on more obscure distribution platforms like Itch IO.
There are also other quirks among these games. Sometimes a game comes with a long list of pointless achievements that unlock in huge numbers each time you beat a level, which I theorize is a way to farm Steam trading cards using bot accounts running these games, a proto-cryptomining op of sorts (however successful that is). Some games even appear Safe For Work but have Not Safe For Work patches provided in community hubs to unlock more naughty versions of default art, just so they could evade accusations of sleaze.
Basically, you're paying for the art, not the game. But it's also hard not to see the flood of these "games" as slimy due to the rampant abuse of a loophole to sell something else.
EDIT: Sorry for reposting. My reply keeps getting hidden by TH-cam for using no-no words. What a hellsite.
im going to do this to my dad. he's just gonna wake up one day and find 'furry nsfw puzzle fr amogus!!!' in his steam library.
lmao
@@maishishikusa1856please update us whenever you do
@@maishishikusa1856Your dad gonna whip out that belt and turn you into a bright red ☠️
The furry one is either for A. A joke, gift it to your freind to curse their steam library or buy jt for yourself cuz it's funny. Alternatively B. Get an easy 100%ed game with lots of achievements. They always have a million achievements and they're all easy
C. Steam trading cards farming, usually these games have a lot of that too, trying to make a lot of money by enticing the card farmers and giving them a new place where to get a ton more super easily.
D. Cheap shovelware made for the few dumb furries who actually buy these "games", basically the furry version of these kind of people who'd rather buy some shitty porn game and get off to it rather than go on PH or something.
@@FunnyStripes i doubt people from basically any rich or normal country could make a profit out of those trading cards
uhuh...sure...
@@unaincreibleroca3427 It's even mentioned in the video. The trading card thing is usually specifically for Steam Keys reselling, aka, poorer countries usually.
I played one because I thought it would be funny.
An hour and a half I can never get back
Thank you for this. You having pure intentions of wanting to help with the channel makes it so touching to all of us. I've never felt like we were just "content viewers" to you, you've always made it feel like these videos are your expression of love towards humanity
Oh God did this end up in the right comment section? TH-cam mobile streaming to TVs is cool but sad
12:04 yeah, i feel that "permanent scar on my steam library" comment. My friend gifted me a furry nsfw game and I stupidly accepted it
This video had so many plottwists it was hilarious. Looking forward to more of this type of content.
What's funnier is that it costs 100$ to upload games on steam, so effectively people aren't making money from these games
At 20 cents a sale, it would only take 500 sales to recoup the upload cost. Unfortunately, there are many more gullible and cheap saps out there than 500.
@@latemanparodius5133 30% of the goes to Valve, so it's a little more needed than that.
@@latemanparodius5133 effective profit after calculating taxes and valve's cut is ~30% of the original price
After that you'd need to account for the work that was put into making it too
@@hassathunter2464 Point of the matter is: you wouldn't BELIEVE how many Dumb fkers exist in this world. even people who aren't really "Stupid" as just Ignorant.
like for instance, my Dad. he was INCREDIBLY Intelligent.. he could literally take a Car apart down to the fking Bolt and put it back together, if he heard a car making a certain sound he could tell you exactly what was wrong with it. he did Electrical work, plumbing, wood work like Carpentry, Wood Carving, Burning, he could Sow, Stitch, he could do literally just about anything but Sculpt, and i think he didn't do that cause that is literally MY main goal in life, so he didn't want to be better at it than me and crush my spirit.
but when it came to Technology like using a Computer, he had no fking idea how it worked. not so much as a clue. but i was trying to reach him at the end of his life, and he enjoyed the time we spent together and me being able to teach him something for once.. it was a weird feeling honestly.
but he would fall for Porn pop-ups and shit constantly, he just didn't grasp that there was evil people on the internet who wanted to harvest your data and put spyware/malware on your computer. but i had given him a windows xp computer "windows xp was new at the time, i didn't screw him over giving him Xp on purpose lol" and every week we had to reformat that computer, cause it had ALL SORTS of Malware on it. we had Adblock, but for some reason Google Chrome/Firefox wasn't as strong as it is now, so it just got Malware like nobodies business. he did enjoy being online though, he LOVED Shock sites, he saw stuff he never believed he'd ever see, like "Goatse" or "Tubgirl" or the "Blue Waffle" or "Pink Sock" i could go on lol... but stuff like that was a totally new concept to him so being 71, he had never actually saw anything deranged like that.
i got to have that fun with him for like.. two or three years until he died of lung cancer..
but yeah, i imagine games like these Prey on little kids without a lot of money, or people who just don't know any better. shit, even one of my friends will randomly download just anything from the App store and play it on his phone.. Sketchy AF shit you'd never touch with a ten foot pole.. he'll download cause it "Looks cool" he'll even buy Micro Transaction shit. ive told him a 100 times dude, that's scam shit, don't give them your Debit Card! but he'll do it anyway. same with my Brother (from another mother)'s Birth Mom.. she'll give her Debit card to any ol damn site online. and then bitch when random charges pop up out of nowhere! and its happened MULTIPLE TIMES! though, i would say she IS stupid however. same with my friend and his weird phone downloads. both of them are pretty dumb.
they are, just really really slow
There is actually a way to permanently remove games from the library, if you don't want it "tainted". From what I remember, you can just use the return functionality even if you missed the return window. You just won't get any money back.
You can in fact just delete the game
Also if he couldn't return the game that would mean he played it for more than 2 hours
think about it
@@slice6298 Or bought it over 2 weeks ago.
@@Mik3l24 and didn't think of returning it
wth did you download to get need this information
@@wyattallumbaugh746 Not to worry, I just cheaped out and got a cheap east-europe-only steam code. But by this time, those codes had already become geolocked, so I would've needed a VPN to play it. And then this game was put on sale on regular Steam, so to purchase it legitimately I had to remove it first.
I don't think an actual furry has ever actually bought one of those NSFW furry puzzle games. The only reason I can see someone buying it is out of pure morbid curiosity. (Also hi Reggie 👋)
For an actually good implementation of the core idea between Dual Cars, see the game Duet. Actually can be very intense, has a great soundscape, and is generally just a good game.
I am waiting for your next video to be a 2hour video documenting the output of Indiegames3000.
I think the hentai saves australia game was mockint australia banning hentai.
That might be giving the dev too much credit.
That would be kinda funny
But, what if Australia banned Hentai BECAUSE of this game?
Australia needs to get a grip.
My guess as to why the police don't follow you to the edge is they just used a generated navmesh, but for some reason limited it to a small area rather than the whole area.
Well that game is so bad, the only thing coming from it would be a meme animation, how the MC even steals the clothes of those cops, then falling through the floor lmao.
In other words, instead of building an invisible wall to keep just the cop in (doing extra coding), the game was built with a searchable area that wasn't big enough to cover the map (doing less coding)? That's great.
"640 tiles ought to be enough for everybody"
Started from talking about how dumb a game is to a full blown conspiracy where a game company is just stealing games and publishing them as their own. I love it.
20:45 the game left to get milk
i love reggie, thank you for showing silly cat instead of the man made horrors
Why can youtubers never just play none porn Furry games we all know they exist
I mean Moss 1 an 2 on VR is basically a Furry game
@@senritsujumpsuit6021 🤢
@@blablagamerbr what does that emoji mean are you saying that all Furry must be porn or what because by that logic all Asian cartoons must be porn because you saw hentai once
@@senritsujumpsuit6021 they shall not all be porn, but they shall not exist at all
@@senritsujumpsuit6021 what, I don't think he said that
About the game where Regi was used as censor, I can imagine this game's dev and dev's friend conversation about it
"Oh hey man! What are you doing today?"
"I'm developing a game"
"Nice! About what this game will be?"
"... Can we change the topic?"
Weak. They should own up to it
"Hiya, what ya developing?"
"FURRY SEGGS!!!"
Just btw, that is NOT what an Asset flip is.
An Asset Flip is a game made by buying/downloading premade assets from the Unity/UE asset store, and just throw them down into the "game", compile and release.
The Unity and UE asset stores sell anything from UI elements, to 3d models, animations and even premade code. So people just get those and drag them in the editor.
I love how he started the video off like most TH-camrs, & then increasingly descend into an angry yet concerned investigator.
14:46 I think Dual Cars was “strongly inspired“ by another mobile game called Duet Game, which used the concept in a much better way and introduced a lot more mechanics.
So, a asset flip is when you literally buy assets to use on Unreal and build a game from pretty much exclusively those assets to resale.
What probably happened was they made the first game as an asset flip, then resold it after changing a couple things to get past Steams very limited filters.
Fun fact: the tower defense game is a ripoff of a tower defense game on mobile with the same assets and same gameplay but the mobile (kingdom rush) one isn't shit, and as bonus I am pretty sure the farm day one is a stolen Facebook game which I do not remember the name of
I've been looking for this comment
its not a mobile game by origin, it comes from early-mid 2000s flash
Its kinda sad that thats allowed on steam, because i think kingdom rush is already on steam?
12:37 sure, i can do that! the type of person you've described beforehand, to my knowledge, is few and far between. usually, there's three parties, being the gag gift people, the collectors, and the achievement hunters. though i am a part of that last group, usually this sort of game will have a key (very often it's 'H') that allows you to skip the level and collect the achievement, whittling a longer game down to just 5 minutes, like iR Studio's entire catalog. this game does not. most game collectors will often ignore games in which the profile features are limited, which leaves the gag gift people. that is, for the most part! not everyone in the latter two groups cares--i don't. there's a game called star sweet that takes 30 to 40 HOURS to complete of the same match 3 level over and over and over but people will still do it for the achievements. i am not quite that insane, but i can certainly dedicate an hour and a half of my time to a game like this. "why" is a question i cannot answer for you, at this point. it's because i own it, but i couldn't tell you what got me in the hobby in the first place.
unrelated, far likelier that indiegames3000 takes stuff of the unity asset store and plops them on steam. this would implicate those commodore guys too
This video went from a cool idea to a deep dive into indiegames3000 and their shenanigans
The periodic "hi Regie" cracked me up
Also, I saw similar "stolen mobile games" on the Windows store. Generic company name, games I recognized from Android. They'd had the mechanics crudely ripped, leaving a whole bunch of bugs and content that didn't do anything - especially around microtransactions - and had ads slapped in the sidebars.
What I find weird is that those games on the Windows Store are insanely priced... At least in Hungary, if the Windows Store does regional pricing. Might be part of some kind of money laundering.
The two cars turning around an invisible point is inspired by an actual good free mobile game called "Duet"
*The main story is free, the full version and DLC isn't. Still worth buying
it's wild how these all share a storefront with actual good games like Elden Ring and Factorio
Fun fact, most (ahem 👀) type games are for people who have a crippling addiction to corn, I purchased them to make my friends worry, there are even ones with Hitler and stalen
I can’t believe that you saw the game Furry Sex on steam and actually had the willpower to buy and play it
@ManaCloak i get what your point is but i dont think the xbox 360 is responsible for roblox furry porn
The saviour of all, the ps3
@ManaCloak Least schizophrenic PS3 player
@ManaCloak my fault
@@DehydratedDarkness more like least schizophrenic Sony pony
13:00 I'm 100% certain that this game is a ripoff of a 12 year old indie tower defense game called Kingdom Rush, the biggest difference being that kingdom rush was actually kinda cool from what little I remember as a kid. The artstyle, enemy designs and tower types all have a heavy resemblance. I assume Htwo didn't know about Kingdom Rush since it wasn't mentioned and he actually praised this game (in comparison to everything else).
it is and Im disappointed Htwo didnt realise it
Yeah they made another kingdom rush as well that's even better. Top tier mobile game.
I think a lot of *those* games are more achievement farms than actual games
If they have any, but if they do then that explains things
3:00 Game dev here, the police probably have a premade mesh for where they can go that just doesn't extend as far as the collision for the map. The player isn't bound by a navmesh and so can go anywhere that has ground.
Metal Commando was even available for the Switch in the eShop for a short time before Nintendo quickly pulled the plug
14:12 actually I'm pretty sure I recognize some of these assets, the background (I think), some enemies and the "empty tower" sprites are straight ripped from kingdom rush.
24:30 this just means that their ssh sertificate is invalid. The warning is about that whatever data you exchange with their website might be stolen by a middleman.
Yeah. I'm surprised he doesn't know that, but TBF the dev is a cancer that should be removed.
Just because a certificate expired, doesn't automatically mean, there is a middleman. I would be more worried, if the CN in the cert doesn't match the domain name, was self-signed OR was signed by an expired, known bad CA used for SSL breach/middle man shenanigans. However, it says a lot about a company, if they can't afford a valid SSL cert for $2-$5 a month.
@@Sypaka Not even 2 bucks.
reggie is amazing, he deserves a treat for helping you with this video
The conspiracy reminds me of the dozens of generic 'jrpgs' made by a particular group, all using the builtin assets of rpgmaker except for the few hand-drawn main characters. Don't remember the company name though, but they're not hard to find since they put out a new game nearly every other month; so they might be copy & pasting, but at least they aren't stealing others' work lol.
Delving deeper into the stealing of Metal Commando, though on the original team's side this time. At around 8:23 in the video you show us a loading tips screen, which shows the Skill Tree. That very first skill there, the one with the brass knuckles that say "Hurt" is the icon for a Skill from Borderlands 2 called Fistful of Hurt! Some of the skill icons look original, and I don't know how many are stolen from Borderlands, but the smoking gun one is exactly like the one for Keep it Piping Hot, another skill on the SAME character, and the Rabbit icon one looks suspiciously like one of Lilith's skills from BL1!
Updating this like two seconds after the original comment, but I just noticed that the one in the top middle, the two pistols, is YET ANOTHER Salvador skill from BL2, called Divergent Likeness. The devs must love Salvador, as they sure do love stealing his Skill Tree icons.
"If only park the car was a throwaway free mobile game" Little does he know that it actually is
Uh... Cryptominer?
@@Sypakaprobably lacks skill to add it to a unity game
i agree, honestly i think those "match the colors reveal the picture" are secretly actually bitmining scams or just flat out scams. If they were part of a narrative in a visual novel it would make sense and most importantly i'm sure it would all be part of the experience. These "trash" games are completely sus.
A few years back, I was given a steam key to the weird Mini Farm game and I wondered why it was buggy and didn't work. Now I understand why.
An "Asset flip" isn't changing the assets of another game to resell it.
It's taking assets from a marketplace and slapping together a barebones game and selling it. Whether they paid for the assets or not.
There aren't just visual assets. There are some gameplay/code assets you can purchase most of the time. And they usually contain some examples to demonstrate what you can do with the assets.
These are usually just selling the examples.
And it's not just steam either, even the Switch had some game that was a unity 'pinball example game', meant to teach people how to use the engine, just straight up ripped and sold on the eshop.
Weirdly enough the furry one was my favorite reviewed because I got to see a really cute cat
"I wouldn't buy Furry Sex"
* OWNED tag on it *
😏
12:42 to gift to friends as a meme (if you have friends)
no
11:30 its not only bad enough that they ask money for that kind of game, the pictures are probably just stolen from some random poor guy on the internet
I loved how the video changed from something silly to something more obscure and illegal in seconds (:
p sure yiff isnt illegal altho not sure tho
so the thing about these pay-for games is, essentially, exclusivity. it's like paying for a private show that you also have to earn by playing a minigame (thus making it more exclusive, i guess?) and that somehow tricks your brain into desiring it more than any given smut you can find just laying around.
edit: H* Saves Australia is based on the country trying (and failing, horrendously) to ban H*. yes, seriously.
5:20 That is a Metal Slug tank. Epic
Steam does give you the option to remove games from your library, even if you can't get a refund. Granted, you lose out on money but if you don't want the game anymore that's one way to do it.
Farm day is probably not stolen, but it uses only textures from mobile game "hay day" and some probably stoler character arts
The Cake Shop "game" is an old Facebook thing. I remember seeing it way back when. I could also be old and remembering wrong.
I'm pretty sure that "Commodore Engineering" doesn't have the rights to use the Commodore trademark / Logo and has simply skirted under the radar due to their lack of brand recognition and the current inactivity of the Commodore brand. That's like making a software company and calling it "Atari Creations" and using the Atari logo.
As a furry, yeah it's kinda wierd that there's so many no effort furry porn games. There's a few ideas I have though. As some people have pointed out already, some people buy them as jokes or just use them to farm achievements. The other reason might be people trying to bank off of "furry bait". Basically trying to get people to buy just becuase there are anthro charatcers in it. There's a lot of furry bait stuff that just... not worth it whatsoever. And as you said, if you really wanted it you can just look it up.
Side note, Reginald is adorable!
my two favourite things, uncovering conspiracies and furry sex 10/10 video
Just gotta love how the commodore engineering logo is a rip off of the commodore computers one lol
I usually buy puzzle hentais for collections. It looks cool having them in my library.
I'm wondering if you ever tried to contact the company the game was stolen from to get any additional information?
I just surprised myself I did not expect Stanley to be here but here we are
The amount of furry games that are incredibly weird on steam is surprising. The funniest of which is probably “Furry Hitler” which is exactly what it sounds like.
I remember seeing a video about that game lmao
This is one of the funniest
There's actually surprising amount of Hitler hentai games
@@slice6298 "Sex with Hitler was so good that they needed to make a sequel!"
@@Randomii666 imagine if they made the game 3d
@@slice6298 And in VR
20:13 dude never played cooking mama 😂
I love how steam allows furry "corn" to be published, but als bans my innocent Gmod dupe. Like im already waiting for over a year for a simple house to be accepted. I have some questions to you Gabe.
I love how, while talking about a furry nsfw game, you called your cat Reggie
In the furry fandom, there is a very popular fursona called Reggie, and it has tens and tens of lewd images everywhere
Also the tower defense thing is a kingdom rush copy
The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure the Park The Car game IS a "throwaway mobile game ripoff" because I swear I played it before on my phone a year ago or so, the exact same levels and premise, by VOODOO lol
Pretty sure VOODOO ripped that off from a real old plane navigation game
As a furry, I can support the theory at 11:00 that "furries like animals." As a sample size of just one person, I don't think that is statistically significant evidence, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe other furries will concur and we can actually get to the bottom of this.
I agree. I like animals, especially dogs. I always want to pet them, even though I'm kind of allergic and have to wash my hands right after. Cats and foxes are really cute too
@@ericonion3561 If you mean "like" as in the zoo way, no. Absolutely not. I hate zoophiles.
@@ericonion3561 I guess but this was talking about real life animals, not the anthro characters
I like animals their cool
As long as you don't play them for 2 hours or more, you can get a refund and remove them from your library. So you don't have to live in shame forever.
Im surprised you never mention how Metal commando is a straight copy of Metal Slug
Ngl, that first game looks kinda fun as a simple phone game or something.
omg regi hiiiii. what a absolute unit. such a good addition to the video
12:10 he's got a point.
I think the reason the last game has a Australia theme is because if I remember correctly hentai is banned in Australia
Right-click a game title and select "Remove from my account" or somesuch, to completely remove it from your library
Your voice reminds me so much of Barny64, so much so that I thought this was their second channel haha
Great video and nice work on digging up the beginnings of a Steam conspiracy. Who only knows where it will lead...
At 16:45 is that Hatsune Miku???
As a furry, I can confirm, Reggie is adorable and should be protected at all costs
Protect Reggie 🙏
as a fellow furry, i agree
Which Reggie you talking about 🤨
@@WLacking get your mind out of the gutter
@@WLacking The 4th one.
Don't ask what happened to the 3rd one.
As a guy that greatly enjoys h-games, i found that working for it makes it better for some reason, plus theres the build up and emotional investment, which increases the enjoyment from it.
The nut is so much more enjoyable when you had to work for it.
i love the tf2 meet the spy music at 23:27
You can remove games from your steam library permanently. You won't get any money back, but it at least it won't tell your friends it's in your library.
14:05 who's gonna tell him
Mad respect for this for sacrificing his mind for some content to brighten up our day.