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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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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If the name is the problem and Valve wants to be cool they could just say that.

[–] Xanis@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Legal teams. Not there to be cool, there to shut things down. Chances are that team bypassed the folks that make the cool decisions. So there is a chance this could be changed when the right person catches wind.

This wouldn't be the first time. I have dim memories of this sort of thing happening before. Just not quite sure on the details.

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That’s not the only problem, I think. It’s not an adaptation of their work, it’s a “demake” which means it uses original source files or, at best, exact recreations of that work. The other projects people are comparing this to adapted Valve’s work to make something original. This isn’t original and uses the existing name. It would be very easy for Valve to make the claim that this product could be confused as an official Valve product even if most people who are interested would know the difference or be able to tell.