The explosion of “Dark and Darker” is related to Nexon’s undisclosed game project, Ironmace denies plagiarism rumors | 4Gamers

The new dungeon adventure game “Dark and Darker” created by the Korean game company Ironmace has been praised by the wide generation of players in the trial version. However, according to the disclosure of overseas media, it is pointed out that the original development plan of this game accidentally involved a relationship with the Korean game. Major manufacturer Nexon canceled the development of the “P3” project.

According to Korean media This Is Game According to reports, the prototype of “Dark and Darker” was actually made by Nexon in June 2021.“P3” Game Development Project(PDF), it was disclosed that the P3 project was disciplined by Nexon in August due to the unauthorized extraction of data and the provision of false information by the project leader A during this period, resulting in the collective resignation of the leader A and team members.

After that, Nexon abandoned the P3 project to develop P7, and filed a lawsuit against the resigned person in charge A in August. In October of the same year, Irommace was founded.This Is Game Furthermore, the concept map and screenshots of the “P3” project game obtained from Nexon are attached, indicating that Nexon believes that “Dark and Darker” is a product that infringes the intellectual property rights of “P3”.

According to Irommace Official website introductionthe establishment of this company clearly states that it is a group of veteran Korean game developers who are disappointed by the exploitation and greed of big companies, so they want to return to being game developers who bring joy to players.

face This Is Game After the report was revealed, Ironmace CEO Terence posted on the official Discord groupfirmly denyAllegation of plagiarizing “P3” game data and assets.

“Our source code is built from the ground up, and most of the objects are bought in the Unreal market.” Terence said: “As far as we know, you can’t claim intellectual property protection for the game genre (game genre) .”

In addition, Korean media YTN It is also reported that Nexon filed a lawsuit against former members of Ironmace for stealing business information, and Ironmace announced in Discord that this is indeed a personal lawsuit by a certain member, and they choose to believe their team members and look forward to finding out The solution to this lawsuit.

As for Nexon, it has not yet issued an official response to this matter. With the popularity of “Dark and Darker” during the open beta period, its gameplay has been hailed by many players as the “Fantasy Version of Takov”, but with the relationship with the Nexon project Finally, whether the game’s launch plan will be affected depends on whether Ironmace can prove Dark and Darker’s own innocence.