But ... isn't this just a The Wandering Village / Discworld clone!?

Hi all,

There are, understandably, two very frequent connotations being made between World Turtles and existing popular culture. I wanted to address those briefly here.

TL;DR We all have a very positive relationship and mutual respect for each other’s efforts and intentions! 😊

The Wandering Village
I have actually become online friends with Philomena (team lead of The Wandering Village), and she's been very friendly and helpful towards a noob solo dev. The two games' designs were done completely independently - we only found out about each other later, and became friends due to it. I've been working on World Turtles since 2019, long before I heard of The Wandering Village. I've also purposefully not played or watched TWV since I didn't want it to influence me. I actually have a YouTube channel with dev logs from 2019 (and there exists some early independent YouTube coverage as well) showing my progress, I'm just a lot slower than the TWV team!
Many of World Turtles' Discord members came straight from the Discord of The Wandering Village!😊

Discworld
I am a huge Sir Terry Pratchett and Discworld fan. It is indeed why I chose this setting. However, the World Turtle myth has appeared in various forms via various civilizations across earth and is, in itself, not a problem. I actually contacted Rhianna Pratchett about this very early on to make sure I would not be stepping on any toes. She is completely fine with me using the setting, as long as I don’t make it “Discworld-y” by basing my characters, places and ideas directly on those of Discworld.

To add to all of this, there's also Beyond These Stars coming out fairly soon, but I also know their team lead, Sam, and the situation is similar to the other two discussed above.

See you in the game!
Gideon