As a wise man once said:



What the hell? you say? It's all related to a little inspiration I had before:

It occured to me today that there could be some interesting (perhaps heated) debate regarding resources and their ownership. I was about to set up a new project in RM2000 to create a mini-game in a semi-futuristic setting and considering that there are a lot of those around the devil on my left shoulder says "Hell, why not just open someone else's project, delete the maps and start afresh without having to assign passage and priorities to all the goddam tiles". This is when the mental debate kicked in.

A lot of games that are knocking about are compiled rips of commercial games that people often claim ownership to (possibly because they ripped the graphics themselves). Is using someone else's rips plagiarism? Possibly more of a requisite to give credit where credit is due but thinking about it - do they have the right to claim credit for the graphical material, given that it isn't their own work? Furthermore, using the graphics from another indie project (Say I were to make my own game using Wilfred The Hero's graphics - a very custom game) is that any worse than using the graphics from a commercial game?

A commercial game is faceless. You don't know who made the graphics and they most likely don't know that you're using them which is why I guess it doesn't seem as bad but in reality taking graphics from a game commercial or not, isn't that the same?

I am very hungover and I'm sure you'll find many a flaw in my logic but that's what this article is for! Discuss away!