Only Up! was removed from Steam... but the story gets worse. 

you should maybe change to "Only Up! was removed from Steam temporarely, and it's Only Downhill from here" or smth like that, but I know it gets less view so.. it's fine really. also wow I didn't know this game was made by lying pieces of s*** that only want money and steal assets lmao guess thats what you get from people who align themselves with NFTs huh

It should've stayed dead tbh

L

Thanks for the heads-up either way!

the video has a steam page? also great video as always

Since this one was successful and they blatantly stole assets they're going to get sued, if they didn't have money it wouldn't be worth the time.

Reminds me of when Falls Guys came out and was _extremely_ popular for a few weeks. And then Among Us came out... :P

@@iveharzing I dunno fall guys is still pretty popular today, obviously not as popular as it was in the past but the devs wouldn't have been able to sustain that level of popularity no matter what they did.

⁠​⁠@@iveharzing…but Among Us came out before Fall Guys? Did you meant when Among Us became popular?

@@iveharzing With this game it's the opposite, instead of a new game coming out and overshadowing it, it's overshadowed by the game that came out years ago that it was directly based on, people aren't going to keep playing Only Up, they're just going to go back and play Getting Over It, because that one's actually good.

This game is what getting over it parodied (kinda) And I think Bennett Foddy is enjoying this lol

@@chimitrash2966 Was getting over it trying to parody anything?

People need to hold indie devs and small devs accountable for their actions. Not just huge developers. It’s not exactly fair.

@@fesofmasfaosmf5437 yes but getting over it was a parody of cheap and bad asset-flip ganes So it's come full circle

@@ziwuri He has a monologue about it: "This game is a homage to a free game that came out in 2002, titled 'Sexy Hiking'. The author of the game was Jazzuo, a mysterious Czech designer who was known at the time as the father of B-games. B-games are rough assemblages of found objects. Designers slap them together very quickly and freely, and they're often too rough and unfriendly to gain much of a following. They're built more for the joy of building them than as polished products. In a certain way, Sexy Hiking is the perfect embodiment of a B-game. It's built almost entirely out of found and recycled parts, and it's one of the most unusual and unfriendly games of its time. In it, your task is simply to drag yourself up a mountain with a hammer. The act of climbing, in the digital world or in real life, has certain essential properties that give the game it's flavor. No amount of forward progress is guaranteed; some cliffs are to sheer or too slippery. And the player is constantly, unremittingly in danger of falling and losing everything."

Unfortunately I think the reason it became so popular is how bad it is, the whole thing seems like a big joke really, everyone going crazy for speedruns for an objectively awful video game

I'd say Jump King had it's popularity for a while but yeah it's true that this game is everywhere for no reason

knights try aswell, i love games like getting over it and jump king

There's also Beton Brutal, that is actually really similar to Only Up, but have original asserts, a good scenario and a better design overall

I agree that Jump King should get more attention, but I wouldn't say Pogostuck has an appealing art style...there's a clear reason people aren't drawn to that one

good lord i thought NFTs were completly wiped

@@twerkingbollocks6661 God that was hilarious. I still half believe it was a hoax, no one is that stupid.....

Seems likely to me that they just used a bunch of random assets that they (sometimes incorrectly) assumed were free for commercial use, and some of them happened to be NFT-related. GoblinTown themself obviously know it's beneficial for them to try and associate with the game now that it's popular, but we've seen nothing of the sort from 'Only Up!'.

To be fair, a bunch of misinformed people who don't like NFT's also don't have good concepts of ownership, so both are generally in the same boat.

@@diadetediotedio6918 Except the ones making NFTs are stealing intellectual property, while the ones who want NFTs to go away aren't as a rule. Also, 'they're acting stupid so it's fine if I do' isn't much of a defense

I mean, to be fair, if I'm not mistaken, Getting over it is also built if not entirely, then primarily out of free assets. It's even mentioned in the game itself, I believe.

@@kindatim still a difference between free assets and stolen assets

​@@kindatimyou just made a fool out of yourself. Getting over used free assets which means we can freely use it as its been distributed Only up has stolen assets possibly from data mining off other games or from somewhere all this exclusive assets are stolen from

@@iwatchstuffs7933 ah yes, insults as an opening statement, how mature. If you look closely at the original comment, it mentions that the game is made out of free models, saying that it's unsurprising that such a game would steal them. I pointed out that the original game is also made from free assets, meaning that its creator didn't steal anything. So, what I meant was literally "if the game is made out of free assets, it doesn't automatically mean that it's full of stolen ones". Read what you choose to hate on, don't make a fool of yourself.

@@iwatchstuffs7933 Only Up only had one "stolen" asset and it was used by accident. The artist already settled the issue before he even posted this video. Its good clickbait content tho. As for all the other stuff and big scary "NFTs" .. the Goblintown stuff is just a digital art project with a lot of it's assets stored on the blockchain (ie. NFTs).. but its all CC0, meaning no rights reserved, complete free to use -- so the dev used it. Its smart business for small teams that can't compete with large companies hand drawing everything.

Testing? You think people like this play their own games? Reminder that there were a few games in ye olden days that _could not be completed_ due to egregious glitches that _any_ amount of testing would have shown was an issue. What's worse, this was before the internet, so patching the game wasn't an option. Sadly, this isn't new, and it's par for the course for greedy devs who just want to shove a game out the door and rake in the profits.

these kind of games suck. I only hear about them through youtube.

Mmmm its a good question, why people are looking foward garbage videogames like Garten of Ban Ban and this mess? Its honestly heartbreaking to see this as someone who is trying to develop a 2D game.

@@JoseViktor4099 yoo wut's the game? Ya have any steam links?

@@henrydoesstuff4260 Not yet its gonna take a long time .

no way

Trying to monetize the game in it's peak popularity (before it's inevitable drop-off) is a good business decision.

that's what it was made for. also the surge in popularity on stream is obviously not organic either.

Wild that people willing to pay for this game in the first place, it's litteral non-optimised, unfinished garbage. And even more wild that games like this gets way more attention then well-crafted polished products

I don’t think they want it to save your mouse sens it’s a game you beat in 1 sitting. Saving your mouse sens only makes sense on games they have more replay ability

Rendering the assets depending on your machine usually takes abou 16ms

I always assumed they were stolen assets since this game was never meant to blow up like it did

I assumed it was just whatever free assets they could find, but I'm not surprised there are some stolen assets in there too.

@@lukeshioshio The game is designed to be a one-off hit.. pretty sure they expected this.

@@tbhandrew5857 they would've not used stolen assets then

People play it for the express reason that it's a terrible game with horrendous controls, graphics and dialogue.

@@ziwuri exactly, masochism as a game is perfect for entertainment. Streamers love "hurting" themselves on camera, and people love gamer rage. It's just a shame that this game was the one that people noticed achieved that.

Its good content for streamers.. spending hours to climb up a level only to fall for like a full minute straight. As for the NFT advertisement.. its not. Good clickbait tho, but the dev used free art assets from many sources, including the Goblintown art project.. whose art is CC0 license, meaning anyone can use it for free.. you could go out right now and make a book or movie using it, if you wanted.

The people would get angry and this game would be review bombed if anyone who notice this start to spreading this warning message to others, which is good to stop the spread of non-fungible scams

@@BustyCatbot Imagine you’re an NFT creator. Imagine your stolen art is present in a hugely successful fad game. What do you do? Do nothing and squander the opportunity? Or attempt a collab to gain more relevance?

Literally, just stack a bunch of assets and use the base physics engine for climbing and boom, a Twitch hit apparently. Who are the people watching this trash? Who neglected them?

I honestly thought it was just a GTA V mod

​@@greatclubsandwich5612 I watched one guy doing it, and while it was fun watching him rage over it. It was obvious that the game itself was shit, just the constant clipping and bouncing of objects alone was enough for that

@@nathanmarden3754 now that you mention it the game really does look like it

@@biqbagel fr it has similar animations

nft's never existed in a first place

csgo still exists, meaning nfts still exist

@@mum-your Those aren't "NFTs" in the sense that they aren't on the blockchain. They are items in an inventory attached to your steam account, no blockchain tech involved. It actually is MORE of a slam against NFT's that CSGO and TF2 handle inventories without blockchain. Those items are sold at extreme premiums, without blockchains involved.

@@mum-your nfts aren't "whenever you make a digital transaction"

I really can't why people hate nfts, I find them neat

Brother, Blizzard just released the most barebones ARPG since Diablo 3 and absolutely rolled in the dough. Gamers eat slop from the trough no matter how bad it is. They love it, it's their favorite thing in the world. Why listen to the market? The market is made up of retards.

I don't think its fair to say we don't care, I had literally no clue any of this was going on with the game. I thought it was just another dumb internet trend, not an actively malicious attempt at making a game by stealing assets, and also pushing NFT's.

Nah..... I actually just didn't notice the NFT thing at all. It really wasn't that pervasive.

Its because of how CSGO still does case openings, when payday 2 tried to connect to the steam market to do the same thing it got shot down almost immediately by users. As long as a blue gem AK is worth $450k-600k nfts will never go away.

Exactly. Only games can whine about nft in an indie game so loud. I just hate modern internet community

Should just report them to Frito-Lay so they can get sued. Devs that don't follow the rules ruin it for everyone else. If we didn't have copyright laws, you would see Dunkin Donut sex games in the adult section. There would be games were you could shoot TV mascots like Geico. NFL would have 150 different football "games". You would have a "Working At Amazon simulation game." 2,000 different Zelda remake games. Etc. Etc. It would be incredibly easy to make content off the backs of established brands.

Thanks Dwarf! I was in the same boat and found out about all this, wanted to spread the word about it.

if you wanna play it just pirate it lol

@@Sednas tbh, I don't want to play it at all anymore. It's not just about supporting these devs, it's also about comfort in enjoying a product created by them, and the messages it has baked into it. I can generally separate an artist from their creation, such as a song from a musician; but in this case I would constantly be seeing the NFT advertising and questioning if each asset was stolen, and I'd hate the experience.

@@fireb0rn so your argument is “stolen assets which the devs compromised over and removed, and then marketing their own merchandise”

Average Twitter user.

Aren't the devs Chinese? It'd be safe to assume English isn't their first language.

It sounds like they are collaborating on merch tho, not NTFs which is a significant difference.

they are saying they didnt directtly advertise it. Whocares if its just a spray on the wall i didnt even know it was an NFT.. online comments are the real problem haahaah

@@rangerfurby I was not aware of this. I’ll admit I’m a bit confused what your point is exactly, which I accept could be my fault. Could you elaborate, please?

⁠@@wisnoskijbut isn’t the merch for an NFT collection? Doesn’t that still indirectly promote this collection of NFTs? If I’m missing something I’m more than happy to listen, I understand if I’m getting something wrong.

I think a likely case is that they just threw a bunch of free assets in and didn't realize that this one could not be used commercially. When confronted, they removed the asset. Calling it stolen does seem like a reach, it feels more like a mistake imo

They're chinese.. they know they can't legally be held accountable. Copyright / IP laws only apply to whites.

@@hipunpun I'd still personally call it a mistake. I only go game dev as a hobby but one of the first things I learned was how to look for usable assets. Different websites and different stores offer different kinds of licenses and when a store has mixed licenses its important to read them. In a lot of cases not a lot will happen, but there's always the risk that an artist you'll break a license from WILL have the ability to take action against you. It should be common sense in the game development industry/community that "free" isn't the same as "license free" or "royalty free". Ignoring those ideas is a huge mistake, even if its 100% unintentional. They had to remove even more assets, so for me yes, its kind of a mistake, but I think the mistake starts at them not caring, not the fact that more then just a couple assets were unusable commercially and they didn't want to take the two seconds to make sure.

​@@GwyndolinOwOas a 3d artist, I hate when people mark their work as NonCommercial and make it downloadable, it doesn't make any sense. So in my opinion the author of the girl model has no right to say "stolen" when the model is easily downloadable

@@jondro6284 I don't mind, in some ways its annoying but since I've seen things like that in other creative areas I don't think its quite right to blame the artist and not the person who stone it. For example, if we used that same logic on 2D art that really doesn't work. Images on the internet are extremely easy to download or even flat out trace over even if there is a paywall of some kind, or a license contract you need to agree to first. There's an ongoing issue where artists want to post their art somewhere and other people feel obligated to take it and sell it somewhere. (art that fits a certain aesthetic tends to pop up illegally on sticker and clothing stores, and of course NFTs). As an artist I'm not about to say "Well its bad when you sell 2D art against its license, but with 3D art, as long as its free go ham" because technically a lot of art is """free""". (watermarking does help but like i mentioned, tracing or editing a downloaded photo is 100% possible). As a 2D artist I already dislike the idea of saying "Hey, you can and can't do this" and a good chunk of people will flat out ignore it. And nothing says you have to put your art under a certain license if you don't want to. Maybe you'll never touch a non-commercial license as long as you live, but it has an appeal to certain people. But in general I do hate the idea that downloadable = "I can use this however I want". It doesn't work that way and if you get complaints for breaking the rules, that's a consequence you'll have to understand.

I believe that this is the second piece of footage, third if you include pictures that I've seen

I guess I live under a rock now, because I had no clue it was so popular on twitch

@@CryingARiver no its normal because twitch itself is a dumpster fire

@@AutistiCat2406 glue sniffers made this game popular

@@matguimond92 glue sniffers ? who are you even insulting ?

It's possible that in early development they used a wide range of free personal use assets and as completion neared they weren't aware of which were not allowed for commercial use. This is common in indie projects, fortunately when confronted they remove assets they aren't allowed to use.

How to identify a person who has no idea how games are made

What on earth are you on about, that is not how games are made.

@@Plsrateeight lol This is exactly how games are made.

@@AlquimistEd Lord have mercy people think they actually know things It's so cute

Maybe they thought reconxtualizing a asset in a game would change it fundamentally and a crybaby artist wouldn't go "Waaaah theft"

Thank you Ro!!

Welcome to the rougelike genre, would you like to play: The Binding of Isaac, Dead Cells, Slay the Spire, or FUCKING ONLY UP

It came up in my steam reccs because of this, and I assumed that it had procedurally generated content. What a dick move.

I see no "roguelike" on their steampage. Tags on the other hand are user generated and tend to change over time.

tags are user generated dumbo, what are you even talking about? Elden ring had "dating simulator" as a tag for a long time, do you think Froimsoft and Bandai did that to "reach more people"

Unless they involve any battle mechanics with the enemy in any level of this game, and ended with the final boss at the very end

"stealing"

Only whiney gamers scream as soon as they sense the presence of nft. Normal people just don't give a fuck about random graffiti textures

its not really about the "nft" actually the reality is the game is just too hard too fucking hard and it is making everyone crazy so everyone wants to get rid of it

Yeah, strikes me as a beginner game dev using a bunch of free systems and assets.

People who like rage games probably will still buy this. At least until another 3d rage game just as hard comes along.

Shows how meaningless the tag "hard" is...

It took me way too long to understand what you were trying to point out. lmao

@@shivers47 Wow lmao, don’t worry it happens 😂😂😂

@@TheHollowGuy Just like my spelling error haha (edited out already ^^)

@@shivers47 Didn’t even realise lol, even *BETTER for me!* lmao 💀💀💀

Can you create a better version then? I'm not even trolling here, can you create a better version?

@@Plsrateeight I can, easily, but that would put shame on my face.

@@gamegame6089 Nah I don't even believe you

@@Plsrateeight can you not see why making a game like only up would be a shame for anyone?, it’s all free assets and mediocre mechanics, nobody wants to code that shit, especially when there are much better games that they could be making and made by less people.

@@Plsrateeight By myself? Yeah easily but I ain't spending my time on stealing assets.

Bruh who cares if they stole assets the game is still fire 🔥

Seek help mark

@@Mark-ps7eh I mean if someone stole your work and made money off it that kind of matters. Besides that this game is not that fire.

@@WilsonTexasRager yes it is

if you think the game is fire you are probably a 12 year old child this game has absolutely no reason of getting popular stolen assets buggy mess it wasn’t even supposed to get popular but there it is i’d rank the game lower than Gollum

yeah it's got a similar vibe to the videos talking about speedrunners and cheated runs. it's cool to know the stories behind games as well as about the games themselves

Should never use stolen assets in game development period. If you just need placeholders there are mountains of free assets you can access without stealing from anybody. Even if you had harmless intentions, it's a dumb liability risk to take. It's easy to confuse your assets. Which ones are free and which ones did you have to license? You'll inevitably go live with stolen goods because you mistakenly thought that tea set model you used was from a free kitchenware pack you found when it was actually an unlicensed model you downloaded from the internet somewhere.

@@azeon562 wait rl? Where, is there a store with free assets just like in roblox? If YES then i didn’t knew.

@@marmaje6953 Ofc! There's free asset stores everywhere designed specifically for use in starter/low budget development. It depends on the engine you're developing on, but they all have asset stores with tons of freely available stuff from 2D to 3D models, environment assets, sounds, vfx, AI and animations, everything you could need to start or even finish a project. All the more reason why theft in a game like this one is just unacceptable, all they did was slap a bunch of 3D assets together and create a platformer with them. They didn't even create their own movement and mantling system, they used an already available one (which they also stole). Something that simple should have been incredibly easy to find free assets for since there's no specific theme to the whole game. You can find some fairly high quality 3D models and environement fixtures for $10-$20 if you move beyond the free stuff too. No real reason to pirate with such a large free market available unless a developer has genuinely bad intentions to steal/profit off stolen assets.

Not necessarily stolen, new game devs use free temporary assets as placeholders and later replace them. It's likely they just didn't realize select asserts were not allowed to be used commercially, and replace them when requested.

@@azeon562 thank you for letting me know (actually rad your comment fully)

Isn't afraid to clickbait you fools too.

@@Plsrateeight aside from steam removal the main reason this video was made was to inform people about the stolen assets and NFT links in the game.

@@gulsher6635 Oh blah blah blah NFT's bad bad cry cry cry cry cry cry cry

Pogostuck and Jump King have unique styles, original assetts, and aren't advertising NFTs. With all the stolen assetts and NFT advertisements I couldn't give a single shit about being fair to the devs.

Ya know this game reminds me of those roblox parkour levels that would briefly rise to the top and then disappear.

@@MylesMor4les how does jump king have any unique style? it is the most generic pixel artstyle game

That was a joke?

Nah, there are plenty of indie cashgrabs. They just come in waves depending on what games are popular and easy to make (or games that people really want). This one just got popular. Like, there are a bunch of games like _Vampire Survivors_ floating around now on Steam. Most are capitalizing on the game's success, but some are also outright cashgrabs.

Yeah, that's the impression I got too.

You make it sounds like the people who got stepped from are the bad guys, and not the NFT bro asset thief.

​@saladv6069 why not both?

the fact there are people who think "protecting yourself from copyright infringement" is bad somehow, is terrifying to me.

@@SpyroTheEternalNight there are also scary people who take copyright infringement too seriously. As in murder-rape-robbery "you are a disgusting piece of human excuse " seriously.

Exactly, suspect it's less malicious than made out to be. Seems most assets used are allowed to be used freely for commercial use, it's likely that they accidently included some that were not allowed without realizing.

it’s painful that beans nfts (the backstab playside studios did to dumb ways to die) is better than this

this is kinda sad dumb ways to die was one of the games i played as a kid even though it’s Gore

@@HeavyWeaponsGuy3 agreed

explain why is he a creep?

Except flappy bird was better

Keep coping , “game was bad” as it has the most views and streams. Keep brown nosing

@@_VXLS Lmao gollem was also streamed a ton and was a bad game. This happens all the time, you aren't proving a point :)

@@_VXLS Lord of the Rings: Gollum, No Man's Sky on Release, and Starbound were all Good Games?

@@_VXLShere’s the attention you ordered

​@@_VXLSmfer doesn't know what brown nosing means

Its all subjective but nah its f-ing boring. Like oh wow the overreacting streamer overreacted to bad thing in game happening! Pogchamp.

Shut up

You have a point ngl

If someone goes out and buys those NFTs now after seeing them mentioned in this video (complete with downward trending value), after everything that happened in the past years, nobody can help them.

subliminal advertising

One of the most important things when using assets that you didn't create is to make sure you have rights to use that asset. If you aren't %100 sure of the licensing, then you don't use it. It's that simple. I didn't know isn't really an excuse.

@@izumichan31 And yet it still happens because it's really easy to fake ownership. Someone using an asset that they thought is free to use isn't going to comb through the relevant asset stores just to make sure that the asset isn't copied. It happens so often that the legal courts have a precedent with the "innocent infringer", and, while that defense doesn't negate damages, it does reduce them. Making a broad generalization like, "I didn't know isn't really an excuse" disregards the countless people who've just made random test asset flips to learn game development using what they thought were free to use assets. And games use hundreds of thousands of assets. All it takes is for one uncleared asset to slip through in an otherwise legit bundle of assets or something, so, while it sounds easy to simply check your assets beforehand, it isn't always that simple. So, yeah, of course, I advise double-checking the assets you use and to err on the side of caution, but this kinda stuff is going to happen sometimes, no matter what. I'm not excusing this specific developer, I think the reasons for which they made this game are gross and the reuse of others' assets could easily be due to NFT bros' frequent misunderstanding of fair use, but it's pointless to cast this as if it were as simple as, "Just check every single asset you use beforehand, hurr durr."

if you really doubt they meant it there was a Coca Cola asset and Sprite asset this is definitely on purpose

I've seen a ton on SketchFab ripped directly from other games. For my own prototype, I'm using a few weapons off there that look legit but I'm probably going to replace them and stick to almost exclusively using unreal marketplace assets