Hi Will, Like Phil and I said you can, but you have to be careful in how you do it. If you want to create a classic remake of Castlevania don't call it Castlevania call it something else. Avoid using names, characters, music, and sounds from a copyrighted work. Game concepts are fine as long as you are willing to add some new and unique content to it. Shades of Doom was enspired by Doom, but is not close enough to the original work that David Greenwood has to worry about copyright issues. Instead of enemy soldiers and demons Shades of Doom uses mutant humans, rats, cyborgs, and a new back story for the game. He basically used the Doom idea to create his own game which is similar, but the important stuff in the game is different enough to be perfectly legal. Back when James North was running ESP he took two classic games likePackman and Space Invaders and came up with a couple of truly unique arcade games such as DynaMan and Aliens in the Outback. Both were borrowed from the classic arcade genre, but with a little creativity he came up with something new and unique. That's what we as a community have to do as well.
On 3/27/10, william lomas <[email protected]> wrote: > so surely most of us can't really make any useful classic remakes games due > to copyright --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
