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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 7 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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[-] nbafantest@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

It started out as a fun project by just a normal guy.

It is literally not possible to make a game like this any other way.

I would bet the concept goes underground and continues tho.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

He uses Valve IP, therefore Valve was even the position to make any demands in the first place.

Valve cannot just go through the homebrew community and demand takedowns of random games. They could in this case solely because they own the assets. How is this so hard to understand that I have to repeat myself over and over again?

[-] nbafantest@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Do you think it's hard to understand?

I don't think you understand that it was started as a fun side project to see if he could actually do it. He wasn't trying to make the next AAA game

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