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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 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming

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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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[–] hikaru755 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wait but why is Valve involved at all, then? Not like it's their fault that some people they have nothing to do with are building a game based on those APIs, so shouldn't Nintendo approach the developers of the port directly instead?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Valve holds the copyright to Portal, so Nintendo probably just "encouraged" them to pull some strings.

[–] woelkchen 1 points 9 months ago

Nintendo probably just “encouraged” them to pull some strings.

Nintendo have their own litigation-happy lawyers. With the exception of the Portal Collection release for Switch, both companies have nothing to do with each other.

[–] mint_tamas 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nintendo sues everyone they encounter in the faintest context of their IP with the power of a thousand suns. See also, the failed launch if Dolphin on Steam. Valve is justifiably cautious here.

[–] woelkchen 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Valve is justifiably cautious here.

Valve doesn't distribute the port.

[–] mint_tamas 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t matter

[–] woelkchen 1 points 9 months ago

Doesn’t matter

If fact it does for the claim that Nintendo would sue Valve otherwise.