Hey, I just saw your post about PeaceDay and I'm really sorry to see that the game isn't going to get made. If you don't mind me asking, were you actually approached with a C&D or are you just trying to avoid that situation? I'm in the middle of a lot of fanworks myself and I just want to know how cautious I should be.
I wasn’t approached, but a bunch of friends sent me messages informing me that these types of things have happened. There was an AMA with some copyright lawyer on Reddit that specifically said that people who get sued over fangames often get an NDA and can’t talk about it after the settlement. Then there were the 500 or so fangames taken down by Nintendo from GameBolt (I think that’s the name of the site). Then there was the one piece of fan art that Kojima tweeted about and immediately got DMCA’ed by Konami. Putting together the pieces I just feel like that’s enough of a warning for me to stay away. According to the copyright lawyer on Reddit, “You cannot afford fair use.”Personally I don’t think you have to worry about fan art or video or fanfiction. It’s games specifically - possibly because they’re a medium in direct competition that seem to be the trouble. I don’t know a whole lot about it beyond that. I’m just playing it somewhat safer than I normally would with stuff like this because Konami has a reputation for being pretty awful.I appreciate the message.
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A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.
This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.
But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.
But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!
And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.
But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.
Reblogging because I made a trailer, yay!
Unstable Scientific Pre-pre-pre Alpha trailer, mostly made as part of the Seattle Indies Expo submission. It was so fun making the metal-impact effects for the logo!
can someone please get these hoes under control i'm BUSY
This is amazing
The Boss and his taste in music
My $10+ Patreons can download the full HD image
Your grandpa Bellowphone's cover of Skrillex' "Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites" on his "Squijeeblion", a pump organ with various acoustic honking noises attached. I'm sure Skrillex feels honored
The black areas represent the remaining natural dark skies in the United States
I wish this actually was an anime.
1984
Wait, can this actually be happening? Ms. Burke insists she is just holding a folder though.
WHAT BEAUTIFUL MADNESS IS THIS?!
Here's Machinarium on my Game Boy Pocket! You can grab the .gb or the .pocket file on my patreon HERE for free! [Patreon] [Twitter] [Instagram] [Kofi]
My husband and I were working on a retro-style platform Peace Walker fangame. But even non-commercial fangames can get one into trouble so we decided to stop. Sorry. I don't have the heart to take down this blog. If you'd like the sprites for your own non-commercial stuff, let me know!
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