So basically he only needs the rights and it's ready for release? Wonder how hard that'll be to accomplish
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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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 epriginal 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.
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.
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!
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