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Grid Wars - 5/5 Stars (Pictures Included)
shardian:
I played that on at Best Buy and that game is frikkin awesome looking in HD. I did feel like a color vector game.
ahofle:
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--- Quote from: Sir Auros on July 23, 2007, 01:04:10 am ---Wow, I know this is an old thread, but saying MS and Bizarre Creations were stepping on the little guy when they were protecting their property is one of the most asinine things I've read in a long time.
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Geometry Wars is basically Robotron on steroids so who's stealing from who?
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I'm not so sure it's stealing of IP either. This guy programmed the thing from scratch in the style of geometry wars. It's not like anything was really "stolen", just similar. Using that logic, there would only be one 3D first person shooter game, one MMO style fantasy game, etc. That's probably why it was such an informal "cease and desist". I'd be interested to hear from a copyright lawyer on this.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: ahofle on November 06, 2007, 04:07:46 pm ---I'm not so sure it's stealing of IP either. This guy programmed the thing from scratch in the style of geometry wars.
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IP is not limited to actual source code. Copyrights extend out to design as well. That's why you can sue the makers of KC Munchkin if you are the makers of Pac Man.
ahofle:
Where do you draw the line though? Blizzard Creations could probably be sued by Williams (or whatever company they have become) for the same reasons since this is obviously a Robotron remake.
GAtekwriter:
I'd like to add to the debate the following - if you look at Galaga, it was simply Space Invaders but with diving enemies. One could argue that all the best video games out there probably took a basic idea and made it better. I will say that this one does look like a fairly close clone of GeoW, but there's enough differences in look and feel that I won't lose sleep playing it.
Jim
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