Solely Up!, a not-so-endless runner that just lately took off on Twitch, has been inexplicably faraway from Steam with no warning, however there’s cause to imagine it would’ve been eliminated as a consequence of a copyright dispute with an artist claiming the sport makes use of one among their property.
Developer SC-KR Video games posted to its Twitter (thanks PC Gamer) that the sport could be accessible for buy once more on Steam “quickly” after it was taken down earlier immediately. For these not within the know, Solely Up! mainly has you operating by an impediment course and parkouring by it step by step escalates. The objective appears to be to achieve house, which implies you’re making a relentless ascent from the bottom to the countless void. So in brief, you’re going…solely up.
As of this writing, Solely Up! has in a short time amassed a robust Twitch following, with over 90,000 viewers and 55,000 customers following the sport on the streaming platform. Whereas it’s having a profitable run on Twitch, a 3D artist is claiming the sport makes use of one among their 3D fashions, which was listed free of charge use so long as it wasn’t for business functions.
The mannequin in query is listed on Sketchfab, which explicitly states its for non-commercial use. Solely Up! is a $10 sport, andit’s getting used to become profitable, which matches straight in opposition to the rules set out. It’s unclear at this level if that is the explanation Solely Up! was delisted, however we’ve reached out to Valve and SC-KR Video games for clarification.
As PC Gamer factors out, Solely Up! has handled some controversy previous to this as a result of it has NFT promotion, however Steam solely has guidelines in opposition to NFTs when you’re shopping for and promoting them in-game, reasonably than merely selling them.