Well tom,
to a great extent it seems very capricious indeed. There was for instance
one metroid remake which got not just shut down, but actually got the
creator's ip banned from his server without any warning, yet there is
another far more high profile project sitl continuing un malested, with lots
of news and reports everywhere!
Ditto for other games. One remake of boulderdash, ---- Dx boulderdash, had
to be renamed dx diggem because first star software, who both own the
original game and are stil! releasing bd games today for mobile phone and
gba.
Yet a small scale independent developing company (much like a lot of audio
game devs), have released three commercially sold games under the title
"boudlerdash, dig the past"
It virtually seems a lottery to me, ---- which is all the more reason what
happened to monti was so completely mad!
If however it's a lottery, ----- why not play? You've got to be in it to win
it afterall.
that's to say, freeware remakes, ---- knock yourselves out!
Btw, one notion I have had is a turrican remake in audio complete with the
award winning music, ---- though i will admit that sinse Turrican remakes
have been endorced by the games' creator, and indeed the original games are
available under a "not for profit" type agreement if you have the emulator,
this is a mildly different situation for that game at least.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games like sonic
Hi Dark,
Well, as has been said many many times already it is all up to the
copyright holder how they want to handle it. Some don't care about
remakes and some do. I've seen several freeware classic remakes for
Linux such as Packman, Asteroids, Bomberman, Super Breakout, and
Activision hasn't said anything about them. I'd assume given the age
of the games Activision probably doesn't consider those games
commercial best sellers any more, and don't really care about the
clones floating around the net.
However, as you said Nintendo is another story. They have consistantly
squashed remakes, and actively protect their best sellers like
Megaman, Castlevania, Mario, and others. So it is a good idea to stay
away from Nintendo's copyrights for that reason.
However, this only proves the point though that some companies are
more relaxed than others. You never really know how a company will
respond to your project until it is out there, and they know it is
there. some will ignore it, and others may take some sort of legal
action. Who knows?
On 3/27/10, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
I must confess I have! seen freeware only remakes of sonic games feature
orriginal sounds and graffics, such as this one (not accessible, but it
makes the poiknt):
http://www.infamous-adventures.com/kq3/index.php?page=faq
While I understand the issue about copywrite and thw rroy about getting a
desist letter (especially as regards commercial games for proffit, and
with
the idiocy that tom Recieved over Monti), I know for a fact freeware
graffical game makers aren't as concerned at all. There are even cases
where
the original creators of games saw a free remake, and sent
congratulations
makers to the remaker, ----- pleased that their game is stil out there.
the only company I've seen persistantly squash remakes, is (sadly),
nintendo, but keep clear of them and things should be fine for a free
accessible remake of any game using original sounds or whatever, so long
as
a correct disclaimer is written.
just considder how many utube vids feature graffics, sound, music or
whatever from films or games, then ask if a free game is really that!
different.
Needless to say though, anything commercial is far more tricky.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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