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That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by billothekid2@kbin.social to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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Honestly, a bit surprised by this. It wasn't even on Steam. Hopefully switching to an open source SDK will get this back up.

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[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Why not just call it something else? Valve doesn't own the concept of portals. Swap out the models and textures and then accidentally release a separate conversation mod when the project is done.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (7 children)

It sounds from the article like the ultimate issue is use of Nintendo IP, not Valve's.

Though I've never understood why Nintendo is so authoritarian about its IP.

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

Nintendo is scared shitless of getting their IP rights taken from them by allowing general usage. For instance, they absolutely hated that old thing where any old person would call any game console a Nintendo because if Nintendo became a generic word for console they'd lose protections for it.

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