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Games are this interesting medium of art where they're really not easily replicated, but very easy duplicated. There's practically no equivalent to a cover for
by pathartl 4y ago
Games are this interesting medium of art where they're really not easily replicated, but very easy duplicated. There's practically no equivalent to a cover for a song that exists for a game. You can distribute a ROM, maybe swap some assets, but the code only exists in the binary it was compiled to. It was only up until recently (with decompilations) that a game was effectively set in stone unless it was open-sourced.
I don't know. I think it's silly for decades-old-games to run into licensing issues when trying to go open source. The tech is effectively obsolete except in the instance of that specific game.
- enneff 4y agoLook up “video game demake”.
- pimlottc 4y agoI don’t really understand what distinction you’re making between “replicating” and “duplicating”
- pathartl 4y agoDuplicating = copy/paste digital binaries, replicating = reimplementing the codebase.
- account42 4y agoThere have been engine reimplementations without decompilation or source releases - OpenMW being perhaps the most complex example. I'm also not sure why you think remakes are that different from cover bands - neither are a 100% identical copy.