Overview
- Valve blocked the Wired Tokyo 2007 demo, saying it might use “intellectual property from third parties.”
- The content flagged was a dinosaur-themed card game shown in the demo, which appears to be Dinostone, a 2023 board game by the same creator.
- Valve told the developer to provide license agreements or a lawyer’s opinion explaining why no licenses are needed, or the app would not ship.
- The solo developer says they published Dinostone under the pseudonym Daikichi, which makes formal proof of ownership hard to produce and legal fees out of reach.
- The developer signed a letter granting themselves permission to reuse their own works and resubmitted the demo, and Valve has not publicly said if this clears the review.