RavynousHunter on 17/6/2008 at 05:36
O.O ... Scum is too light a word for these assholes. I believe they should be reclassified as "dickheads." All in favor, say "aye."
Beleg Cúthalion on 17/6/2008 at 11:10
Quote Posted by io organic industrialism
Limbo of the lost...
somehow seems an apt name for the 3 guys...
Since "limbo" in German
only refers to this dancing game where you have to walk through underneath a bar that gets lower with every turn, this whole affair didn't seem really serious to me from the beginning. :D
Gambit on 17/6/2008 at 12:48
Hacking other people works since the days of amiga...
Inline Image:
http://i25.tinypic.com/33coqs4.gifA lesson to be learned: In the age of internet and detail geeks NOTHING can go unnoticed.
Goldmoon Dawn on 17/6/2008 at 13:00
Well I'll be damned!
lol Gambit.
Springheel on 17/6/2008 at 21:08
Some of the concept art in their "behind the scenes" video is a direct copy of D&D art of the early 90s.
The silver lining is that if these guys can get a publisher to sign on with them, anyone should be able to.
Peanuckle on 17/6/2008 at 23:44
Some of those pictures are horribly photoshopped. I mean dang! I feel sorry for anyone who actually gets that game.
Springheel on 18/6/2008 at 21:08
I watched a trailer on youtube showing the "intro and ten minutes of gameplay". The *very first* loading screen was clearly a ripped off version of the Battle for Middle Earth loading screens.
How is it that this thing actually got past publishers and reviewers for even a day, let alone a month or two???
Renault on 18/6/2008 at 21:30
I recently played the first ten minutes of this game, and noticed two very blatant Thief audio ripoffs, a haunt and a zombie sound. Anyone who plays Thief would recognize both in an instant.
Three possible theories for this mess, as a whole. First off, these guys are old, and probably don't play a lot of games anymore. There's a very good chance that they wouldn't recognize screenshots from "popular" games. With that in mind:
1) I would bet that only one of the guys knew about all the plagarism, obviously the one in charge of the visuals. Maybe he got behind, and figured if he threw in a few images here and there, they might not get noticed. Or...
2) Maybe they hired an outside, 3rd party artist to come up with images for the game. He kept feeding them stuff from other games, and they just had no idea. Meanwhile the artist is collecting checks and laughing his ass off. If not that, then maybe...
3) These guys are so out of touch that they didn't think what they were doing was illegal. Laugh if you will, but remember that these guys took over 10 years to complete a low budget adventure game, could do no better than geocities for their web page, and didn't know that logging into a message board under two different usernames from the same PC is detectable by IP (and after they did find out, they did it again anyway).
Safe to say these guys aren't the brightest the world of game design has ever seen. I'll be interested to know what happens to them. I wonder if what they did can lead to criminal charges, maybe something along the lines of fraud?
ZylonBane on 18/6/2008 at 23:18
I'm thinking "3".
RavynousHunter on 18/6/2008 at 23:49
Ditto on that one, ZB. One more reason why I'm developing my game almost completely indie (aside from some friendly advice, et cetera).
