Angela Game was created in 2020 by at least one former employee of Snail Games China, Studio Wildcard’s parent business, who has access to the Ark source code. Studio Wildcard was “understandably worried” when Myth of Empires was launched in November 2021 because of parallels between the two games, including identical gameplay mechanics, that it thought went beyond coincidence. A DMCA takedown request was filed after the sandbox strategy game Myth of Empires was withdrawn from Steam due to suspicions of copyright infringement. Angela Game, the creator of Myth of Empires, has so far refused to say who requested the…