Viral success (for somebody else)

VoltekPlay composes on Reddit that it was just notified to the presence of My Baby or Not! on iOS by “a suspicious burst of traffic on our itch.io page—all coming from Google organic search.” Just after including a “where did you find our game?” gamer survey to the page were the designers warned of some popular TikTok videos including the iOS variation.

“Luckily, some people in the [TikTok] comments mentioned the real game name—Diapers, Please!—so a few thousand players were able to google their way to our page,” VoltekPlay composes. “I can only imagine how many more ended up on the thief’s App Store page instead.”

Previously today, the $2.99 iOS release of My Baby or Not! was rapidly climbing up iOS’s paid video games charts, drawing in an approximated 20,000 downloads in general, according to Sensor Tower.

The App Store noting credited My Baby or Not! to “Marwane Benyssef,” a brand-new iOS designer without any obvious history in the video game advancement neighborhood. Benyssef’s just other iOS video game, Kiosk Food Night Shiftwas launched last August and seems a direct copy of Kioska pay-what-you-want title that was published to itch.io in 2015 (with a subsequent “full” release on Steam this year).

In a Reddit post, the group at VoltekPlay stated that they had actually submitted a DMCA copyright claim versus My Baby or Not!Apple consequently shared that claim with Benyssef, VoltekPlay composes, in addition to a message that “Apple encourages the parties to a dispute to work directly with one another to resolve the claim.”

Today, Ars connected to Apple to ask for a discuss the scenario. While waiting for an action (which Apple has yet to offer), Apple appears to have actually gotten rid of Benyssef’s designer page and all traces of their video games from the iOS App Store.