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Interesting mashup. Rad advert. How long before it gets taken down by lawyers and will the programmer wind up working at Nintendo or Valve?
by beloch 15y ago
Interesting mashup. Rad advert. How long before it gets taken down by lawyers and will the programmer wind up working at Nintendo or Valve?
- JoshTriplett 15y agoIdeally someone will create a FOSS tileset for it that transparently substitutes for the current Mario set. The gameplay itself seems fine; platformers seem perfectly safe as long as they don't use Mario graphics, and as for the portal mechanic, that has plenty of precedent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_hole
- rplnt 15y agoYou cannot patent game-play mechanics. But then... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company#Legal_enforcement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company#Legal_enforc...
- city41 15y agoThey would possibly need to redo all the levels too, as they are tile for tile taken from Super Mario Bros.
- toyg 15y agoI was actually surprised it came out, they had some teasers on Reddit a few days ago and I thought Nintendo laywers would have showed up by now. Copying game mechanics is not a big deal, but reusing trademarked and copyrighted sprites (of the main franchise from one of the richest companies on the planet!) is a bit too much.
- bermanoid 15y agoYeah, this seems like an awful lot of work to be throwing at something that is crystal clear copyright and trademark infringement. In all likelihood, all that will happen is he'll get a C+D letter, but it's dangerous territory, he's wide open to be sued for real money here, and this sort of case is a slam-dunk.