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The problem with this demo isn't that it's pretty alpha (and to be fair, it is, you can move, and attack, that's about it). The problem is that it uses stolen
by shadowmint 14y ago
The problem with this demo isn't that it's pretty alpha (and to be fair, it is, you can move, and attack, that's about it).
The problem is that it uses stolen assets from another game.
That is 100% not ok, even for a tech demo.
(...there are plenty of free game assets out there, creative commons license; drawing attention to yourself by stealing someone elses art is douche behaviour)
- mcantelon 14y agoPeople sample audio all the time. This isn't a commercial project and sampling some sprites from a 13 year old game doesn't seem like it's going to impact Blizzard in any way. He should, of course, give the original creators credit in his README at some point (judging by the fact there is no README the project may be still undergoing development).
- laurent123456 14y agoIt won't impact Blizzard but it's going to make it to the front page of HN. If the same demo was made with custom sprites, we would probably never have heard of it since it indeed doesn't do much.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoHe is sucking someone's else popularity! What an evil and selfish mind he has!
- laurent123456 14y agoNo, but it's sucking our "precious" time :) We're all thinking we're going to see Diablo in JavaScript, and then this...
- shadowmint 14y agoSure, it's not a commercial interest thing, its just about ethics. :) I'm not going to stand up and tell someone its mean and unethical put some harsh criticism out about a project which is in itself unethically stealing art assets and associating itself with a brand it has nothing to do with. If you're happy to accept this project and what it's doing, you should equally be happy to accept it's going to get some flack for it. You can't have it both ways (doing this is ok even tho its unethical AND but its unethical to criticise it and that's bad).
- shurcooL 14y agoRelated question. Can I use the Quake 3 sounds for debugging purposes in my open source project? Or are they copyrighted and I would be doing something bad by including them in my project's folder.
- aw3c2 14y agoYou would commit copyright infringement. Check out the sounds of games like OpenArena, Sauerbraten, Zonotic, etc. Not good but ok as placeholders.
- rplnt 14y agoThe "you can move" is questionable.