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#1 Captain Char

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Posted 25 March 2016 - 09:19 PM

just found this: https://steamcommuni...s/?id=493357702

 

looks promising, but I could also see it getting a C&D from hasbro



#2 jimme neutron corndog

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Posted 25 March 2016 - 10:08 PM

>has japanese lenguage

>no spanish

 

fucking 0/10



#3 Trotsky

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Posted 25 March 2016 - 11:16 PM

hmm that health bar looks so much like Spyro Dawn of the Dragon.



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Posted 25 March 2016 - 11:18 PM

The voices are Russian.

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Posted 25 March 2016 - 11:22 PM

The voices are Russian.

 

Nice!^



#6 R9000

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Posted 25 March 2016 - 11:45 PM

looks promising, but I could also see it getting a C&D from hasbro

 

Legally, Hasbro should have no right to give a cease and desist, unless parts or trademarks of the MLP franchise is used. You can't copyright an art style. They could try scare tactics, but I don't think it would hold up in court. Then again, I know little about how these things actually go in court.



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Posted 26 March 2016 - 12:25 AM

I'm pretty sure they can, or else Fighting is Magic would have just switched to all OC's instead of making completely new characters.

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Posted 26 March 2016 - 12:38 AM

I'm pretty sure they can, or else Fighting is Magic would have just switched to all OC's instead of making completely new characters.

 

Fighting Is Magic was full of references to the actual show though. The name itself is arguably confusable with the official show. I think what happened with Fighting Is Magic -> Them's Fighting Herds was a rebranding. Significantly fewer people would be interested in playing as a random OC pony than canon characters, so they rebranded totally to use a more original group of characters with a wider appeal. I'm fairly confident that if FIM had started from day 1 with 100% original pony characters and environments, and was called something like "Hoofighter" or whatever, there wouldn't have been a cease and desist. But then it probably wouldn't have snowballed in popularity anywhere near as much as it did. It's just like what Legends of Equestria's doing - purposefully not using any MLP trademarks or infringing copyrights, but still mirroring the show's style.

 

As I said though, there's no telling whether the law will actually be properly represented when one company has all the money to throw at the legal battle and the other has pennies. So the reality of the situation is probably more 'Will this game get Hasbro twitchy enough to enter into legal proceedings?', whether the actual law is on their side or not.


Edited by R9000, 26 March 2016 - 12:45 AM.


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Posted 26 March 2016 - 04:41 AM

What I'm thinking of is the distinct G4 pony shape, (kp-shadowsquirrel's models), they're not just similar, they are identical to MLP. An OC clone with just the colors changed would have a hard time claiming fair use. It is like if you recolored Mickey Mouse, Disney would probably sue you and win.

Path of Light uses the kp-shadowsquirrel models, if they would just distort the model shape a little, it might pass as "inspired by" instead of just copied.

 

Funtasia is more what people can get away with free and clear, since it's changed enough. If they just took the exact pony shape and recolored it, they would not be able to get away with it.



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Posted 26 March 2016 - 02:41 PM

We're not talking about fair use here though. That's a completely different set of laws for directly using someone else's work, not creating your own. According to this:http://www.artslaw.c...ngement-or-not/
the creators of PoL would be well within their rights to make their game in this style. What's more, I would say that the models used are fundamentally different from the show, since the main franchise uses 2D flash models, and the only official 3D models I know of are in the GameLoft app. Now if you recoloured Mickey Mouse, of course you'd be sued, because you're still copying a unique character, and yours is not well-distinguished enough to stand as its own character. Pony OCs are somewhat different as they have their own mane styles, personalities, and they're based on the idea of a creature that already exists in the public domain, rather than a specific set of characters that are basically Disney's own anthropomorphized mice. Fair enough they're based on characters by Hasbro, but there's not a whole lot in the way of non-generic features that makes Hasbro's design unique, and the pony art style used represents an entire species, not any distinguishable character.

Anyway, maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong. I did study IP law at uni this year, but I'm certainly no lawyer, and I don't want to totally turn this thread into a legal debate anyway. :P We'll see what happens when this game grows a bit more.

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Posted 26 March 2016 - 06:42 PM

(Implying huge corporations give a damn about fair use.)

 

I'm downloading the demo and archiving it before it gets potentially pulled down.

 

EDIT: wow this game requires a pretty decent GPU.

I love the Unreal engine. Stuff looks fantastic in it, and I wish more indie devs would use it instead of Unity.


Edited by Luna Lens, 26 March 2016 - 06:47 PM.



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