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PC Adventure Game Accused Of Ripping Assets

  • -HP-
  • June 12, 2008 at 10:08 AM
  • -HP-
    • June 12, 2008 at 10:08 AM
    • #1

    I saw this article today over at Kotaku and I thought it would be interesting to post about it over here!

    Cheeky PC Adventure Game Accused Of Grand Theft Assets

    I'm aware that some of the mods being developed at the moment, are using ripped geometry from commercial games, like this one called "Enter The Zone...", a mod for Crysis, where almost all the geometry on it is ripped geometry from STALKER.

    Or this one, where most of the oblivion castles were imported into Crysis! (Although the guy who made it, never released the mod)

    But well, even if It's still wrong, using this kind of ripped assets in a mod is one thing, but using it in a commercial PC game? ffs!

  • Zeta
    • June 12, 2008 at 11:27 AM
    • #2

    That's beyond ridiculous.

  • Jenn0_Bing
    • June 12, 2008 at 11:33 AM
    • #3

    I must say that stalker and crysis mash up looks beautiful in soem shots. But as for the retail game, im not sure how the publisher didnt realise what was going on before they actually published the game.

  • Hourences
    • June 12, 2008 at 11:47 AM
    • #4

    They got stuff from Oblivion, Painkiller, Thief, UT2004, RTCW, and so on. I wonder how they managed to combine all of those different games:P

    They even ripped entire custom levels people made for UT2003/4!

    http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showpost ... stcount=21

  • PogoP
    • June 12, 2008 at 12:02 PM
    • #5

    £29.99 for that game? Wow.

    This really is the lowest of the low. Those developers will never be able to get proper jobs in the industry having done something like this.

  • Thrik
    • June 12, 2008 at 12:14 PM
    • #6

    This is just beyond hilarity. You couldn't make it up!

    The best part is the game can almost be initialised as 'LOL'.

  • e-freak
    • June 12, 2008 at 12:55 PM
    • #7

    It's made by three guys from kent, uk - one seems to be a pub bar-man and another one is a "mature student" (all at the upper 40s age)

    WTF this is sooooo much fail

  • Inveramsay
    • June 12, 2008 at 12:57 PM
    • #8

    You beat me to posting it.

    It sucks when modders steal stuff from eachothers and other games but when a commercial release does it I hope they end up emptying trash cans for the rest of their lives.

  • Furyo
    • June 12, 2008 at 1:43 PM
    • #9

    I'm pretty sure they will, which based on the quality of their title should not be too much of a change.

  • Minos
    • June 12, 2008 at 2:23 PM
    • #10

    What a bunch of jerks

  • Zacker
    • June 12, 2008 at 2:36 PM
    • #11

    It's incredible that they actually managed to get this game commercially published and on the shelves.

  • kleinluka
    • June 12, 2008 at 3:17 PM
    • #12

    Check out this link, its some kind of "interview" with the developers

    [email protected]

    THREE computer fans are hoping to make a mint after the PC game they created went on sale in the USA.

    Steve Bovis, Tim Croucher and Laurence Francis, all from Maidstone, have dreamt of seeing Limbo of the Lost played across the globe since they first started discussing the game 10 years ago.

    Mr Francis, 47, who also provides the voice for the game's lead character Captain Briggs, said it was conceived for Amiga computers that went out of date in the 1990s.

    He said: "Everything just sort of fizzled out. Then one day I was working in a pub and Tim and Steve walked in.

    "I joked 'I thought you would be millionaires now', and they replied 'actually that is what we wanted to talk to you about'".

    The three put their heads together and after three more years of hard work Limbo of the Lost - a PC adventure game - was born. It is a battle between fate and destiny, with players having to work through a series of puzzles and challenges to reach the end.

    Mr Francis, a former landlord of The Pilot pub, Upper Stone Street, and now a mature student, said: "It is a sort of comedy come horror. A bit like Monty Python meets Evil Dead.

    "Between the three of us we researched, wrote, designed, animated, scripted and developed the whole game from home."

    Mr Francis, of Reginald Road, said he hoped their story would inspire other PC users to the full potential of their machines.

    He added: "For us it started out as a hobby and then just grow.

    "Our hope, if everything goes well with the sales, is that within a year we will all be stopping the day jobs and doing this full time."

  • Buddy
    • June 12, 2008 at 3:21 PM
    • #13

    http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28891.html

    For me, this game is some sort of a joke really :F I can't imagine anyone doing this sort of thing

  • kleinluka
    • June 12, 2008 at 3:30 PM
    • #14

    lolz

    [Blocked Image: http://memages.jrpereira.com/images_own/limboofthelost_boxart.jpg]

  • Buddy
    • June 12, 2008 at 3:33 PM
    • #15

    lulz

  • -HP-
    • June 12, 2008 at 3:38 PM
    • #16

    ah ah ah ah... owned!

  • Thrik
    • June 12, 2008 at 3:44 PM
    • #17

    Heh, wow. That interview is insane. These are three ageing guys who really were pinning their hopes and dreams on this, and they've completely destroyed themselves. In a weird way it's kind of sad.

  • dux
    • June 12, 2008 at 4:00 PM
    • #18

    Ahaha what's even sweeter is the game showed in the trailer looks like it was created by a group of retarded monkeys. Wait, no. A group of retarded monkeys could have done a better job that these 3 sorry excuses for "Game developers".

  • Buddy
    • June 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM
    • #19

    They apparently used shot from "Spawn" movie in their trailer.

  • PogoP
    • June 12, 2008 at 4:42 PM
    • #20

    Oh my.

    That trailer is shockingly bad... It looks like it's from the early 90s. Are these guys completely serious, or is this some kind of joke?

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