So basically he only needs the rights and it’s ready for release? Wonder how hard that’ll be to accomplish
I suppose that they could release it for free as an open-source project and not brother with all of that
No, they’d still need IP rights for the characters/world/name. Releasing it for free doesn’t alleviate that issue in any way.
They could strip it of all of the Simpsons related stuff, but they’d also have to create new levels, since those are owned by the original publisher.
And if a company wants to fuck with you, it can sue you anyway over minor likeness until it exhaust you from money to attend hearings.
Yep. There would be a line of lawyers at that guys door the next day to ruin his entire life. I’m surprised they haven’t already. Would love to play it but unless there is a “leak” it’s not happening.
They can’t do anything as long it’s not commercially available. It’s now nothing more than a personal project. Best they can do is DCMA it to stop sharing images/video’s of the project. That’s the Nintendo route at least.
If he’s lucky, some publisher will see it, will also see the money and tries to get hold of a license to publish and make a deal with this guy.
It uses assets from the game so that’s a no go.
oh, yeah, then definitely not
I wonder what the effect would be if someone hacked him and leaked his game. You know, totally out of his control. He can’t stop a malicious actor afterall…
Shame these companies don’t support projects like these. Like they are ever going to remaster it themselves anyway and I doubt it would be that popular. Would be free PR for them.
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I guess a chill IP owner that would like some good will pr would strike a deal with the developer… Unfortunate that it’s Disney.
Disney doesn’t need PR, goodwill or even a bit more money. They have all of those things that is needed for them to assert complete control. And that will bring them more power and money than anything else. It’s the same strategy every company has been going for a while but it’s very obvious with the internet companies now.
YT has control over online video, so it’s cracking down anyone avoiding paying them. Reddit controls most text-based communities, so it’s preventing the same. Google knows it’s the overwhelming majority of browsers, so it’s trying to inseminate the entire internet to prevent anyone from seeing anything it doesn’t like, or pay them for.
Reddit controls most text-based communities, so it’s preventing the same
Beg pardon: Reddit is preventing other text-based communities… how?
I think they mean that most text-based communities are on Reddit, but considering this same article is also on Reddit I don’t know what point they’re trying to make.
If we’ve seen anything, it’s that companies always need more money. But this probably doesn’t move the needle enough to make it at all worth it. Or it fucks with their marketing plan simply, they seem to be pretty keen on following the plan charts set for them.
Someone with more gung-ho attitude might jump at the chance though. even if it wouldn’t really make a measurable impact for them either.
there’s a couple of games that I love from the 90s (Ultima Underworld I & II) that I’ve considered doing this with, but I don’t know nearly enough about game development.
very cool, though.
I’ve also always wanted to understand where one even BEGINS something like this. I assume this is “reverse engineering,” essentially? Or does it only really work with games that have leaked/public-in-some-way source code?
Wow, that was ine of my favorite games ever ! And I almost forgot about it!
Too bad I don’t even have a descent enough computer to even think of trying out a remaster of it. But I might get looking for the original for the memories!
Copyright is an amazing invention
