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I can't see the company name without thinking about this scene from Red VS Blue
Tucker: "Bungle..."
Church: "That's an i, you idiot!"
Tucker: "Oh, right! Bingle..."
Church: "BUNGIE!"
It does often seem that Tucker had it right the first time.
Senator, I know Marathon. I served with Marathon. You are no Marathon.
When you have money and power then get caught doing something, ask for forgiveness and create a awful situation to pay the artist less and throw in that small tiny hint of “no more money later, no royalties, we own everything and you get small check….byeeeeeee” (aka the middle finger)
TIL that Bungie is releasing a new game.
Although judging by this news and the first sentence on their Steam page being "...Bungie’s team-based extraction shooter.", maybe it's a good thing I can't play their games.
The best thing about Marathon is the shortfilm. Watch that. Then ignore the game.
"Bungie is making a new game based on Marathon"
Great, I'm in.
"It's a multi-player extraction shooter"
Nope, I'm out. This smells like a "Prey" situation.
I had the same reaction to Marathon as well as the new Black Hawk Down.
They’re doing it again! Bungie has fallen far, completely incompetent management.
It's such a damn shame, too. Destiny 2 was some of the most fun I've had in gaming over the last decade. Absolutely jaw-dropping environments at times, clever encounter designs, the gunplay, so many things to love. And I have no doubt Marathon will be a hell of a thing from what I've seen. These people can design a game.
But GODDAMN stop stealing art from people. Upper management has got to be atrocious with all the bullshit they've pulled over the years. And you know that bullshit starts at C-suite and rolls downhill.
Just a damn shame.
NGL, it seems really practical that it was intended to be placeholder concept art that someone forgot to go in and replace.
That said, this artist they took so much inspiration from definitely deserves a place in the game’s credits at this point. Whether they actually use his art in game or not.
Placeholder doesn't need to be anything more than basic featureless textures on cubes, and you should own them completely. If you made your placeholder to look like it fits, you're asking for it to be forgotten and left in place. Which might not be too bad if it's finally not too out of place and it's yours.
Especially in a professional studio, they should know better than using stuff they just "found" as placeholder. To me it's either terrible incompetence... or worse, they thought nobody would care anyway.
Didn’t they get caught doing this with destiny as well? It makes me wonder if it’s a studio culture thing. You’re 200% right in what they should be doing, but I still am inclined to think this is more likely an incompetence thing than malice.
if i had a nickel for every time bungie stole art i could afford to pay for that art
The art director followed Antireal on Twitter.
Stop the bullshit. They knew what they were doing
The art director followed Antireal on Twitter.
If not for this, I would've chalked this up to the designs being abstract enough that it'd be feasible for two separate artists to have come up with them independently. The fact that he was following the artist is a bit damning.
It's a shame, because he's a fantastic artist, himself, but this is definitely going to soil his reputation, and probably calls into question some of his earlier pieces, as well.
I only see the first of the comparison images linked here. The line of identical symbols inside squares is pretty convincing.
The second image contains lines of text copied verbatim, and is undeniable.
More pics are coming out. One of them has the artist's handle in it. Original art is the yellow to the right. Whoever added it to the game intentionally smudged the name, but left enough of it to be readabale.
https://bsky.app/profile/billain.bsky.social/post/3lpafkzimqc2x
They copy-pasted text and personal logo.
If you think that's "abstract enough", I'm guessing you're either a plagiarist or an "AI artist". Or do you want to admit that you didn't really look at the comparison images?
Or do you want to admit that you didn't really look at the comparison images?
You're already like five comments deep into an argument that hasn't even happened yet, calm down.
So abstract they contain the artist's personal logo.
designs being abstract enough
They copied the text and the name of a made up company. That's so blatant I can't believe nobody just asked "wait, is that on our lore or something?"
They could just market it as "with Art by Antireal" and give him the commission and fame he deserves…