{"id":1530084,"date":"2026-03-18T22:41:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Ea2ADJgQBaDKYM3LTDUzDT"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:41:38","slug":"after-this-game-dev-shared-her-prototype-online-it-took-less-than-5-hours-for-someone-to-post-their-vibecoded-knockoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/after-this-game-dev-shared-her-prototype-online-it-took-less-than-5-hours-for-someone-to-post-their-vibecoded-knockoff\/","title":{"rendered":"After this game dev shared her prototype online, it took less than 5 hours for someone to post their vibecoded knockoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Yesterday, game developer and technical artist Freya Holm\u00e9r shared a glimpse at a side-project she&#8217;d been toying with: a rotational twist on Tetris, where dropping a piece into place rotates the screen 90 degrees towards the side where your blocks landed. &#8220;Been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Is this anything?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The response confirmed that it was, indeed, something. At time of writing, the clip of Holm\u00e9r&#8217;s prototype has already been <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FreyaHolmer\/status\/2033942518895628485?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">viewed on X<\/a> more than 2 million times, while <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/tarjapk.bsky.social\/post\/3mha7fbters26\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky users insist<\/a> they &#8220;need to spend hours playing this.&#8221; There&#8217;s something mesmerizing about it: The brain yearns to rotate blocks that rotate other blocks. Hell, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/timoflegend.bsky.social\/post\/3mh7w3waork2r\" target=\"_blank\">even Tim Schafer<\/a> thinks it looks sick.<\/p>\n<p>It took less than a day for someone to post a knockoff.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototypeis this anything pic.twitter.com\/VKo1Qq4fWu<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2033942518895628485\">March 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Someone already vibecoded (a bad clone of) this and shared it online because we live in the worst timeline,&#8221; Holm\u00e9r said today <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/freya.bsky.social\/post\/3mhdsjgf7cc2h\" target=\"_blank\">on Bluesky<\/a>. &#8220;Y&#8217;know it kinda disincentivizes me from sharing progress when there are slop ghouls around every corner, AI or otherwise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, I confirmed that, nestled amongst the clip&#8217;s enthusiastic responses on X, there&#8217;s a reply from a self-described &#8220;efficient novelty maxing generalist&#8221; insisting that &#8220;this can be built into a game by tomorrow.&#8221; And just four hours and 39 minutes after Holm\u00e9r&#8217;s post, that user returned with a clip of their own rotating Tetris, freshly and joylessly extruded from the AI spigot.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, which you can chase down in the replies yourself if you really think it&#8217;s worth giving your traffic, the vibecoder casually admits that &#8220;someone showed a design of a rotating Tetris, and knowing how AI works and such, I was like, &#8216;okay, it&#8217;ll probably do something really interesting,&#8217; and it did. So.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shameless videogame knockoffs are a tale as old as time, of course; once something crosses a critical threshold of attention, it&#8217;s inevitable that clones will flood the iOS app store soon afterwards in a mad rush to capitalize on the zeitgeist. Since 2020, we&#8217;ve seen it happen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/lethal-company-is-one-of-the-top-games-on-the-ios-app-store-but-theres-just-one-problem-its-not-real-developer-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lethal Company<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/here-come-the-among-us-rip-offs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Among Us<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/guy-brags-about-ripping-off-wordle-and-charging-for-it-gets-blasted-off-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wordle<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/publisher-apologizes-for-lack-of-research-after-releasing-an-obvious-unpacking-clone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unpacking<\/a>\u2014just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>But Holm\u00e9r told PC Gamer that AI coding tools are accelerating the rate at which imitators can cash in on someone else&#8217;s creativity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a huge believer in putting intent and humanity into everything we create, and it&#8217;s genuinely depressing how quickly people can steal work and release it on their own, with no recourse on my end,&#8221; Holm\u00e9r said. &#8220;It&#8217;s like posting a sketch of a drawing you made, and 20 people show up to finish the drawing for you and then boast about it online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:hop3kfmvqgcmwaaur2nefyl3\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mh7w3waork2r\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreih4qr6ti4ysfeczbezlofblwgvqb35avykqp3qr7bntbueo6uzl6q\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Give me that<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @timoflegend.bsky.social (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:hop3kfmvqgcmwaaur2nefyl3?ref_src=embed\">@timoflegend.bsky.social.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/timoflegend.bsky.social\/post\/3mh7w3waork2r\">2026-03-18T21:25:38.570Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Holm\u00e9r says already seeing clones of her prototype is disheartening, she admits the resulting spite can be a useful incentive. Still, the pace with which AI-accelerated sloppelgangers can proliferate is forcing her to work faster than she&#8217;d like, as she normally prefers having &#8220;time to explore the possibility space before committing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It slightly increases my motivation only because I want to prove them wrong,&#8221; Holm\u00e9r said. &#8220;But it severely increases my stress and feeling pressured to get my version out as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before her copycats emerged, Holm\u00e9r was still toying with basic aspects of the game design: When she showed off her prototype, she hadn&#8217;t even pinned down what its win and fail states would look like. Now, she&#8217;s scrambling to put a Steam page together to stake her claim. As she said in a Bluesky post, however, she figures that she has one major advantage:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Luckily, these people are incapable of original thought and don&#8217;t know how to elevate this concept beyond what they&#8217;ve already seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"609374b3-62a8-44ce-a59e-e89c73699c9e\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/after-this-game-dev-shared-her-prototype-online-it-took-less-than-5-hours-for-someone-to-post-their-vibecoded-knockoff.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"609374b3-62a8-44ce-a59e-e89c73699c9e\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/after-this-game-dev-shared-her-prototype-online-it-took-less-than-5-hours-for-someone-to-post-their-vibecoded-knockoff\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, game developer and technical artist Freya Holm\u00e9r shared a glimpse at a side-project she&#8217;d been toying with: a rotational twist on Tetris, where dropping a piece into place rotates the screen 90 degrees towards the side where your blocks landed. &#8220;Been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Is this anything?&#8221; The response confirmed that it was, indeed, something. At time of writing, the clip of Holm\u00e9r&#8217;s prototype has already been viewed on X more than 2 million times, while Bluesky users insist they &#8220;need to spend hours playing this.&#8221; There&#8217;s something mesmerizing about it: The brain yearns to rotate blocks that rotate other blocks. Hell, even Tim Schafer thinks it looks sick. 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