what happened to paradroidz ?

raft · April 06, 2007, 03:00:21 PM

last thing i remember was Egon said there was some legal issues and game will not be available for a while. now it completely disappeared

no forum topic, no entry in projects page

i felt sad about it

i wondered what that legal issue was resulting in such a demolish $:-\$

ToddMcF2002 · April 06, 2007, 03:25:24 PM

Sad. Sure its a fun game but also its a valuable technology demo for JPCT.

What a litigious society

raft · April 06, 2007, 03:37:01 PM

Quote from: ToddMcF2002 on April 06, 2007, 03:25:24 PM
Sure its a fun game but also its a valuable technology demo for JPCT.

certainly it was..

EgonOlsen · April 06, 2007, 04:39:44 PM

I've removed it to avoid unnecessary problems concerning the legal issues that there are. We'll see what will come out of all this...

Hrolf · April 10, 2007, 04:06:53 AM

It makes me sad! The Greedy Lawyers^©® strike again.

*thinks* Oh no! I wonder if they'll get me for the 'Hunchy' game on my site?

cyberkilla · April 16, 2007, 09:55:11 PM

What a pathetic thing for them to do.

It is not like anyone would pay money to play a store bought version of the original,
when it is probably almost as old as pac man

It is a great game you made there, but I think we can all agree, it isn't going to cause them loss of earnings.
I hate it when they do this.

You released it freely. That means a few people have the source already.
They cannot stop the OS movement

jmd · November 10, 2010, 11:33:36 AM

if someone is still interested (sure there will be ) i found in a backup of my laptop the version on paradroisz a great game to play on the go; and my first game on c64 bought by my father i will never forget it. the link *Link removed* enjoy!

EgonOlsen · November 10, 2010, 12:35:01 PM

Please respect my choice to withdraw it by not uploading it again and posting the link. I've removed the link from your post. Thanx.

jmd · November 10, 2010, 07:03:23 PM

really sorry . i respect your work and your choice .. i will keep the prog for me so . its a little treasure now

sorry and respect.. best wishes from biarritz/france

EgonOlsen · November 10, 2010, 07:34:03 PM

No problem! Enjoy the game

AGP · December 06, 2011, 05:24:15 PM

Hold on, did you use any artwork from their game? Because judges on both the UK and the US have ruled that only the artwork and the source code are copyrightable. The games' ideas are not.

EgonOlsen · December 06, 2011, 09:47:04 PM

It used some tiny parts of the art work, some digitized sounds from the original and the level maps...as well as the name. If you change all that, it might be fine. But it wasn't fun to me any longer to deal with all this...i just wanted to make a fun game, not a legal mine field. So i decided to withdraw it.