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https://twitter.com/LastYearGame/status/654020960677404672
I wonder how similar these two games are going to be...
Just to put an end to all the nonsense out there where people are saying Last Year was ripped off. No, they weren't. Not even close.
Randy started talking about the Slasher games to us back in 2013 and formally announced Slasher Vol. 1: Summer Camp a week before Last Year's Kickstarter. Prior to that, they had been working on the Summer Camp reveal trailer for at least two or three months and had been seeking a developer for a few months before that. Summer Camp existed well before Last Year was announced and it has always had the gameplay concepts that it still has today. Last Year wasn't even a blip on their radar until they got C&D'd by Crystal Lake.
Two people had a similar idea at roughly the same time. This stuff happens.
The guy behind Last Year is trying to stir up trouble and get some press for himself on the back of Friday the 13th. Meanwhile, Gun, Randy, and the entire Friday the 13th team are being very polite to him.
To make matters significantly confusing, articles titled "Friday the 13th Game Has Claimed It's First Victim" aren't referring to this current Friday the 13th game. When Last Year was C&D'd, Gun had not even started talking to Cunningham about applying the license to Summer Camp.