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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 10 months 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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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stop with the fan projects already.

These companies don’t give a shit and will just squash any project that they can’t milk for funding.

Best case scenario you never release your work in fear of getting sued and nobody gets to play your game.

Make new projects inspired by these games and actually build your own fanbase instead of being at the behest of greedy corporations.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You know, you chose a bad post to get edgy.

Valve is actually one of the companies that treats fan projects very well, sometimes they'll even let you sell your project on Steam (see Black Mesa remake).

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Valve is actually one of the companies that treats fan projects very well

Well, not this fan project…

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, but Valve didn't block it based on their own IP. The focus really should be on the fact that Nintendo is so litigious. This was a fan project of a non-Nintendo IP. Their reputation is preceding them.