Reddit indie dev says scammers used AI to copy his game and demanded $200 or they would publish it on Steam first

A developer on Reddit's indie developer subreddit said someone used AI to recreate his game demo from his social media gameplay video and demanded $200, threatening to publish it on Steam first otherwise. Users then dug out that he had never made his email public and that three weeks earlier he had used a burner account to threaten other developers, suspecting a self-staged stunt to court negative attention. Most developers advised ignoring it: publishing on Steam requires paying Valve $100, and a demo recreated from a video alone poses no commercial threat.