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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 11 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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[–] Sorgan71 33 points 11 months ago (3 children)

if nintendo has the potential to take legal action against valve for this I dont blame them for doing this. Nintendo has some fucking balls to the walls lawyers that will do anything to protect their IPs. Valve has every reason to be afraid of nintendo

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't think Nintendo would have a case against Valve, only against the developers of the demake. It looks more like Valve wants to maintain a good relationship with Nintendo, given Valve has ported Portal to the Switch and may intend to port more of their back catalog.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Some people are also saying valve gave the guy a friendly warning about using the Nintendo sdk rather than sending a cease and desist, and the reporting on it was misleading

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

A demake is a video game remake on an older platform, or one which converts the game to an older graphical or gameplay style.

TIL

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

They also likely have a touchy relationship right now considering the removal of dolphin.