Plagiarism Scandal

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This was an issue Worldbox encountered in late 2020; it is no longer an issue for the game.

Info

"The fight for WorldBox, or how a game you worked on for 8 years may be stolen from you without you even knowing it" - Maxim

"In November 2020, Maxim reported that a shell company known as Stavrio LTD copied WorldBox after he refused to let them buy it at a DevGAMM conference the previous year, and attempted to trademark the name. This resulted in Maxim attempting to get Google Play to take action against the company by starting the hashtag "#saveworldbox"."
Quoted from the Worldbox wikipedia page under "2020 plagiarism scandal"

Maxim's post addressing the issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/Worldbox/comments/jmplqw/the_fight_for_worldbox_or_how_a_game_you_worked/

• Worldbox at DevGamm 2019

  Worldbox at DevGamm 2019

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Trivia

• Maxim on January 15th, 2025 marked #saveworldbox as done on the now unused trello page