It was such a hot and promising game too! I for one am a very huge fan of peach and the super mario franchise as a whole and the game made me love them more. It's just too sad. Even that other company managed to get away copying windows 95 OS back then using the fair use argument. So why is that ivan seems to be suffering under a lot of stress, pressure and blame right now? Those corporate SoBs are really despicable.
Really it doesn't come down to whether he could successfully defend his work with the "Fair Use" argument. The cost required, financially, to do it would be staggering. That's even if Nintendo didn't decide to win before the court date with the size of their wallet. Nintendo could just have discovery and other pre-trial bits take enough time that Ivan couldn't hope to pay an attorney to manage all of it. Plus even if he won there's no guarantee that he'd be awarded his legal fees.
Not more than any other company. Think about all the erotic art Disney is keeping, because they made their artists sign contracts, that all their work belongs to Disney.
If you are a Nintendo fanboy, you are in the wrong place, my friend.
No, I'm no company's fanboy. If they (companies) get big, they nearly always turn out like EA, Ubisoft, Nestlé, Blizzard and so on and so on...
If we are being honest it was actually:
Maybe? I know that technically you could grab the flash version and decompile it. I'm unsure how any of all that works. Hell, Ivan said he'd likely continue working on it, if only for his own enjoyment. I don't know if any of his uncompiled work was ever released back on LOK.
after the dmca we discussed making a new game that was essentially a reskin, but using the unity engine, as flash had kinda died, don't think Ivan would mind if you extracted the assets and made something new with it
Since it's not encrypted in any way, extracting the assets is quite easy. In fact, I extracted them using ffdec. This includes both png and svg versions of shapes, all the sounds, and several game scripts. Right now I'm contemplating how to rebuild the gallery in Godot since Unity doesn't always play nice with linux distros.
While I understood the words, I'll just smile and nod. That's outside my skillset, I've always been a hardware/networking guy, and I don't really care to learn and instead marvel at what others can do.
Pretty much my thoughts. My whole thing through the last how long on this thread was about, IF someone were to pick it up, they need to know what sort of dangerous waters their swimming in.
I honestly think that so long as you don't seek crowdfunding/patreon you are maybe 60% fine from Nintendo deciding you've got a pretty bum. I think that may have been the fatal flaw in the mix. Another thing is if you can "finish" it.. just release it and let the internet archive it themselves. You can count on people within the forum and others to keep it reuploaded. Distance yourself "No officer, that definitely doesn't ring any bells."
I only found out about the game because of the DMCA. It was a really dumb move on their part. Had they not filed it, the game would've gone unnoticed by the general public, but by doing that they exposed it to the entire gaming sphere. Classic Streisand effect.
I think that's pretty much how the AM2R guys kept updating their game, even after the DMCA.
