Unomelon, the developer of Minecraft-inspired sandbox game Allumeria, says a DMCA from Microsoft, evidently related to Minecraft, got the game removed from Steam.
“The Allumeria Steam page is currently down because Microsoft has filed a false DMCA claim on it,” Unomelon said on Bluesky on Tuesday. “They sent an email earlier today claiming that this screenshot infringes on their copyright. I am taking a moment to figure out what my path is going forward, will update soon.”
The screenshot in question (above) is a simple wide shot of a forest filled with birch trees, what look to be oak trees with green and autumnal leaves, and a few pumpkins and weeds checkering the grassy dirt. There are definitely some similarities to Minecraft; if you told me this was a screenshot of a Minecraft mod, I’d probably believe you, but that’s true of many voxel-based games, including Hytale.
Definitely looks far too much like minecraft to seem interesting at all, regardless of legal concerns. We don’t need more minecraft.
Actually the developer has been pretty open that while Minecraft was their inspiration the game the reason they started working on Allumeria is because in their eyes Minecraft has almost fundamental design flaws that Mojang are unwilling to fix. And while Minecraft was part of their inspiration another part of inspiration was Terraria and to directly quote the developer:
So I don’t think the game counts as “More Minecraft” because the developer gameplay-wise is taking a lot more inspiration from Terraria than Minecraft.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Right now I see a minecraft clone.
And the developer who spent time on this, should just listen to you, because you are an expert on games that people want to play. Like McDonald’s is the only restaurant you need. I hope he doesn’t listen to morons though