{
  "id": 15635117,
  "title": "\"Too big a risk\": Moonlighter devs delay new game's demo for fear of genAI cloning, calling on platforms to \"keep strengthening protections for original work\"",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/too-big-a-risk-moonlighter-devs-delay-new-games-demo-for-fear-of",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-19T17:02:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/too-big-a-risk-moonlighter-devs-delay-new-games-demo-for-fear-of-genai-cloning-calling-on-platforms-to-keep-strengthening-protections-for-original-work"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Digital Sun Games, developers of Moonlighter and Cataclismo, have postponed a public Steam playtest for their upcoming game ReVamp due to concerns over generative AI cloning. They have decided to begin the playtest on their Discord server instead, with the public playtest to follow later. This decision comes in light of recent incidents involving games being reverse-engineered and published before their original releases. The developers hope that platforms will strengthen protections for original work, but have not specified the type of protection they desire. The recent surge in stories about clones of in-progress or recently released games has led to developers pulling playtests or demos to reduce the risk of their work being used to train AI. The creators of Drunken Goddess Reflux recently canceled their planned demo for fear of it being easily replicated by AI or other tools.",
  "summary": "Moonlighter and Cataclismo developers Digital Sun Games have postponed a public Steam playtest for their new game ReVamp , for fear of people using generative AI to clone their work before release. Read more",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}