Stop making someone else's game, come up with your own stuff.

Calling people fuckhead for having a better grasp on how art works and how copying stuff is the #1 imparter of knowledge? Nice going, you're really making a case for your misguided stance here.

You don't get started learning any tools by "being original", it's plowing through exercises tons of people made before. Whether you copy Mario or God of War doesn't matter one bit, it's still something you have done, without expecting monetary compensation, and showing it off via the convenient share features is an additional avenue of getting feedback on one's skill.

What, are going against people just "copying" the Mona Lisa too? Are Rembrandt's paintings only technically pleasing because he was the first to do it? Hell no, re-creating stuff is an acceptable way to give tribute to one's favorite entertainment while at the same time practicing your chops - it's pretty much a requirement in any discipline.

Originality is a result of knowing what to do without having the task at hand be your own inspiration, and it sure as shit isn't something you learn over night. Every great video game artist you admire started out by replicating stuff (and possibly even making it better, mind you). They would have killed for the opportunity to just show their stuff without having to rent their own server to upload unreasonably large files to, and the entire gaming industry would be better for it.

Copying things is creativity, and as long as there it a clear demarcation between selling what you made and showing off your copycat attempts, there is no reason why anyone should be as adamant about this as you are. It's just not how it works.

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