Our game is only available on itch.io. If you see it hosted elsewhere, it was uploaded without our permission or credit.

Recently, our game, along with other VN on itch.io, was reuploaded without consent to sites like playminigames.net and horrorgames.io. (Our games are now removed)

Fellow devs: we recommend searching for your own games online, as you may be affected too.

We’d really appreciate your support in reporting and look out for these unauthorized uploads (step-by-step guide below).

We’ve also noticed an increase in spam comments with suspicious links pretending to be our updates. Please don’t click them. We’re removing them as fast as we can.

Any new game updates in the future will stay on this page, but not in comment section!

The sole admins of this page are:

• Cal (https://calnite.itch.io/)
• Arghbulous (https://arghbulous.itch.io/)
• along with Yuno (https://yuno-im-write.itch.io/) helping out in the comments section.

If you see any other people posting about game updates or announcements, please beware.

Please take care of yourself, and let’s keep the Internet safe for everyone. Thank you!

Arghbulous and Calnite

Step-by-Step guide:

1.) Guide for non-dev
2.) Guide for dev (DMCA notice and removal request)

1.) If you are not a Dev and you’d like to help us report the page, here is how:

• If the hosting website has contact information, you can write an Email for a takedown request.
• If not, you can go to: https://search.google.com/search-console/report-spam
• Copy and paste the Links you want to report. You can add as many URL as you’d like.
• Select “Miscellaneous”
• Scroll down and press the button “Further”
• You can add “Content Scraping & Scam and fraud” in Further information

Why report as spam:

According to Google’s spam policy The website we want to report falls under these two categories:

• Scraping

• Scam and fraud

Your help makes a big difference in protecting indie developers and their work. Thank you for your continued support!

2.) If your game was also reuploaded and you would like to file DMCA like us:

If the hosting website has contact information, you can write an Email for takedown request.

You can copy this:

Title: DMCA Takedown Notice – Unauthorized Distribution of “[Your game]”

Dear [website you are emailing],

Your website is hosting and distributing my copyrighted game without authorization. [We are/I am] the creator/s and rights holder/s of this work. No license or permission has been granted to reproduce, distribute, or display this content.

This message serves as a formal notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) regarding the unauthorized use of copyrighted material.

Copyrighted Work: [Your game title]
Official URL: [Insert your itch.io link here]
Infringing URL: [URL of the reuploading of your game]

Upon receipt of this notice, [We/I] request that you immediately remove the infringing content as identified above, including but not limited to the hosted files and any associated listings or promotional pages. 

[We are/I am] providing this notice in good faith and with the reasonable belief that my rights as the exclusive rights holder are being infringed. 

The information in this notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, I am the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Please confirm receipt of this notice and notify [us/me] once the infringing content has been taken down.

Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your Studio or Company Name, if applicable]

Notice and disclaimer:

• replace/change everything in [] as you see fit.
• we are no laywer if you have professional to help you out that would be advantage.
• do not write threats on a legal notice.

If they don’t take any action after your email you can file a DMCA removal request on Google https://reportcontent.google.com/forms/dmca_search (Yes, it does require your irl identity to prevent false reports)

Additionally, you can also report it to the website hosts and their domain registrar.

• playminigames host: https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/reporting-abuse/
• playminigames domain registrar: https://publicdomainregistry.com/report-abuse-2/

If you have a request for me to find a website’s host and domain registrar, you can comment, and I will find it for you.