PixelatedCandy is a developer who is most known for creating the experience Fashion Famous. She is married to taymaster in real life, both of whom run a YouTube channel together.
She was mentioned in a blog that talks about three female developers for International Women's Day.[1]
Controversy[]
Crown Academy lawsuit[]
Ice7 shared on Twitter on July 21, 2020, that he had filed a lawsuit towards Star Status two weeks prior on the basing claim that their upcoming game, Crown Academy, had supposedly used stolen Royale High code and assets in its production from a previous Royale High developer that was purportedly now working for Star Status.[2] In his post, he provided links to legal documents that included screenshots of alleged reused code, assets, and text from Royale High.[3] Star Status later filed a counter-suit against Ice7, confirmed by PixelatedCandy
PixelatedCandy is a notable creator or influencer verified by Roblox Corporation. Learn more., the owner of Star Status.[4]
Although the screenshots were not confirmed to be real, their release triggered a very volatile response from the Royale High community. Upon the opening of Crown Academy's public access beta, it looked different from the screenshots presented on the legal document and did not contain any visibly stolen assets. However, some Royale High fans still believed the game was stealing, and demanded certain items such as select skirts and shoes were removed or changed. Despite that these assets were not actually stolen from Royale High, nor their concepts created by Royale High originally (though some being somewhat visually similar due to the same references being used), some of these items were reworked and updated after the release of the public access beta.
As determined and filed on April 6, 2022, the prior mentioned lawsuit came to some result. The court determined that Crown Academy did not use any Royale High assets or code, nor did they instruct any code or assets to be stolen, therefore waiving them of the copyright claim.[5][6] However, Ice7 states he still has existing claims in relation to the case on April 14, 2022, and that PixelatedCandy lost the opposing case against Ice7 for defamation, though documents relating to this have not been publicized, unlike the verdict on the plaintiffs' claims.[7]
References[]
- ↑ OrcaSparkles (2018, March 8). "International Women’s Day: An Interview with Mimi_Dev, GrottyPuff, and PixelatedCandy". From Roblox Blog. Accessed January 29, 2024. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020.
- ↑ https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srb6ep
- ↑ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/35171381/Ndlamba_et_al_v_Trice_et_al
- ↑ https://twitter.com/PixelatedCandy/status/1296919305414746113
- ↑ https://twitter.com/PixelatedCandy/status/1513992391887314955
- ↑ Verdict of plaintiffs' claims: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.379039/gov.uscourts.flmd.379039.200.0.pdf
- ↑ https://twitter.com/DDOG_007/status/1514470925445513219